Joanne Rowling Quotes
I had the idea of a boy who was a wizard and didn't yet know what he was. I never sat down and wondered, "What shall I write about next?". It just came, fully formed.
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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I'm kind of sarcastic. Not cynical but sarcastic.
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Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.
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When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.
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Berlusconi is a genius in communication. Otherwise, he would never have become so rich.
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A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns that feel like it used to be how it looked. Charleston has this river that runs through it, and it's really beautiful.
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There are certainly things labels can still provide that indie artists can't. They can pave the way to radio and pay big bucks for promotion.
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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 had a reporter ask me what it was like to have my best years over so soon. It stayed with me.
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We're not really under pressure to deliver a cloned baby to this world. What we are under pressure to do is to deliver a cloned baby that is a healthy one.
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I think all television has to be about relationships and I don't think horror for the sake of it can work unless you're able to ground it in some kind of relationship.
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My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.
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It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
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I'll never get married again, and I always hate to say never to anything, but I will never marry again.
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Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.
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There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun.
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When I was a child, my December weekends were spent making cards, decorating the tree, hanging the wreath and preparing brandy butter and peppermint creams.
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Who does not believe in Fate proves that he has not lived.
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But what I'm very interested in, whether it's writing, whether it's hosting a show, whether it's cooking food, I'm just into the discussions of identity, culture and the politics of culture.
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With everything I've done from "Jackie Brown" on, I got really into really writing more prose in the - in what you're calling the stage directions, all right, and consequently my scripts have gotten bigger and bigger, and cut to "Kill Bill Volume 1 and 2."
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Mystery causes a mental itch, which the brain tries to soothe with the balm of reasonable talk.
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I had the idea of a boy who was a wizard and didn't yet know what he was. I never sat down and wondered, "What shall I write about next?". It just came, fully formed.
