Joanne Rowling Quotes
Power was my weakness and my temptation. And Miguel Sano is very tempting. But he is not weak. He is very, very strong.
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But the weakness comes from these Westernised co-opted Muslim leaders who just want to look good in the eyes of the West and Western media.
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In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.
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You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.
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My parents were reluctant to let me start auditioning until I was at least a little bit emotionally stable - I'm still working on that! And so I started when I was fifteen, and it was the best thing that could have happened to me in terms of being able to focus my crazy teenage energy into something good.
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I was thrilled one year when I was younger when not only did my brothers get hockey sticks for Christmas - but I did too!
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People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk.
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I consider myself a writer who happens to write about history, rather than a historian. I was an English major in college. What I've learned about history is in the field, so to speak. Going into the archives and working with it directly.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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I was the first actress who branded her own line at a time when everyone just lent their name to a product. Everyone said I shouldn't do it, but it was probably the best thing I've ever done.
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I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
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I like egg white omelets with veggies, or oatmeal with almonds and fruit.
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Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
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My biggest influences as an actor were Marlon Brando, and I really dug James Dean.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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As a writer, one is always a little blind to what one writes.
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I live for the text. It's my job.
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Where a city is only focused on one aspect, it becomes a city without a soul, not a city people want to live in.
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I love and really respect strong women. I'm obsessed with Scarlett Johansson and Drew Barrymore and Penelope Cruz. They are just really incredibly strong-willed, intelligent females in the industry.
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When my senior prom was happening, I was in Malta filming 'Troy.'
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There is no controversy within science over the core proposition of evolutionary theory.
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Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
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I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle. But I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.
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Power was my weakness and my temptation. And Miguel Sano is very tempting. But he is not weak. He is very, very strong.
