Joanne Rowling Quotes
Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have "essential" and "long overdue" meetings on those days.

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A lot of times, when mother-son or mother-daughter relationships have been put on screen, they tend to trickle towards ugly, and I don't find that totally realistic for the wide swath of us, and it's also not that fun to watch.
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You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.
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I have an iPod, but I put my music in it from my CDs, and then I have that CD in my library.
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Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different.
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Your barber always knows everything that goes on in the town, doesn't he?
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I just want to sit in my room and write books.
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Bob Rubin was opposed to signing the welfare bill. He's not exactly what I call a flaming liberal.
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I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.
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Those of us raised in modern cities tend to notice horizontal and vertical lines more quickly than lines at other orientations. In contrast, people raised in nomadic tribes do a better job noticing lines skewed at intermediate angles, since Mother Nature tends to work with a wider array of lines than most architects.
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If a company knows it may have to pay a large amount of money if it poses an unreasonable threat to others, it will have a strong incentive to act better.
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When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award.
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Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.
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Movies have been my way to get out of my backyard. I'm trying to let people know that movies change people's lives.
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I have flown with British Airways since I was a very little child, so it feels quite special to have gone from family holidays flying around Europe to become a gold card holder and be spoiled enough to travel more than not in first class.
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See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.
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Hollywood has to be a better reflection of the world we live in.
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We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.
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I think architects tend to believe that they can almost do anything, which is a wonderful characteristic, but in some cases you just fall flat.
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If I had my druthers, I would be a brain in a jar, with a burlap skirt around the cart I'm on - I don't attend to my physical being much.
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If you want to be taken seriously, you almost have to act really serious.
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Copywriters on Madison Avenue constantly grapple with the question of where their work sits on the totem pole of 'real' writing.
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We have to be a forward-looking nation not a backward-looking nation, and I have to run the defence budget to deliver defence effect in the future, not to preserve regiments or shipyards just because they’ve been there for a long time in the past. And we move on. As a nation we move on.
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When I was little, I think that I wanted Superman to be my boyfriend.
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Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have "essential" and "long overdue" meetings on those days.