Joanne Rowling Quotes
You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!
Joanne Rowling
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My parents were very permissive when it came to animals. As long as we earned the money to buy them and built whatever structure it was they were going to live in, we could have any kind of pet we wanted. They would have let us have a rhinoceros if we could have afforded it.
Maggie Stiefvater
It is not possible for a person to be completely free of sin and be squeaky clean.
Park Chan-wook
Always be courageous and strong, and don't fear.
Gabby Douglas
I worked with Herb Ritts on the Marky Mark shoot, and then Steven Meisel, and then they'd start sending limos for me, and I was like, 'That is so embarrassing. I'm not getting in a stretch limo by myself to go to a shoot.' That whole New York thing of, 'You are fabulous! Turn up to a Meisel shoot in a limo and you're fabulous!'
Kate Moss
Being taken seriously, for a young writer, is a wonderful form of encouragement, but at the same time, I don't think one should ever feel like attempting a kind of artistic endeavor is beyond your scope just because of age or inexperience.
Tea Obreht
I've started working on a new album, I'm writing a new book... there are a lot of good things on the horizon.
Ace Frehley
Kiss
Books about spies and traitors - and the congressional hearings that follow the exposure of traitors - generally assume that false-negative errors are much worse than false-positive errors.
Malcolm Gladwell
Sometimes I go to movies, and it's just a bombardment, and I'm not entertained by them - I'm assaulted by them! And I know I sound like such a drama queen, but I find that really strange.
Parker Posey
No matter how bad you think you have it, there's always - always somebody who's got it way, way worse.
Vince Flynn
I've got a nice car. I love my job. I've got a bagel store, and I have breakfast every morning with friends I grew up with. I've been in movies, I've written books - I don't know how that all happened.
Larry King
I famously had a huge television producer say to me one time, 'Can you please stop doing that to your face? It's very distracting and unattractive.' And I was like, 'You mean move it? Okay, sorry, I guess we're not going to work together.'
Katee Sackhoff
No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
Orville Wright
The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid.
Oscar Wilde
They looked at the paper and saw nothing in those curving lines, but they knew and understood everything, for their geography was in their blood and they felt biologically their picture of the world.
Ivo Andric
If you do the best you can, no matter how bad the situation, you probably are going to come out okay.
Helen Gurley Brown
In the '60s, I did many satirical portraits of dictators.
Fernando Botero
If you want to focus more on Allah in your prayers, focus more on Him outside your prayers.
Yasmin Mogahed
You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!
Joanne Rowling
