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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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've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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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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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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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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It's hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived, but he's really limited to a style and they're locked into it.
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I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.
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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
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I wanted to wear a uniform when I was in high school, but I couldn't. I was like, 'It would be so much easier!'
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Ava DuVernay is my personal Phil Jackson. She's a perfect coach.
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My mom beat us until she started breaking clothes hangers. Wooden clothes hangers! Once we started laughing back at her, then your spankings were through. That's the way I was raised. So, I got to be about 13 years of age when finally she quit spanking on me. But I think that it was great way to be raised.
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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.
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In Australia, there just weren't strong roles for actors of colour. I was often being asked to turn up for commercials with a ghetto blaster on my shoulder. I thought, 'Are we in the '60s?'
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Lying at the root of the social agreements of 1980 are the courage, sense of responsibility, and the solidarity of the working people. Both sides have then recognized that an accord must be reached if bloodshed is to be prevented.
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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.
