Joanne Rowling Quotes
I've wanted to be an author as long as I can remember. English was always my favorite subject at school, so why I went on to do a degree in French is anyone's guess.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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Justice is revenge.
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The years go so fast. I mean, I just realized that at the end of the year I will be twenty-two, and I just turned twenty-one.
Nastassja Kinski -
Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.
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'Pong' is simply a knockoff of the Odyssey Ping-Pong game.
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Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while a welfare state is scared to death of poor people coming in and rich people getting out.
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Just because you have a learning difficulty or difference doesn't mean you aren't smart.
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One day, though, I was asked if I'd like to go to the University of Florida and become a Gator.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
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I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.
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Even as a partisan Republican, I'm not sure a 40-year run is healthy for either party.
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I get ideas for my books from people I know and what happens to them, from places I've been and what happens to me, and from things I read.
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I knew what kind of actor I was going to be, and I looked for inspiration to people like Alec Guinness, Cyril Cusack, Timothy Spall and Jim Broadbent. I looked at them and thought, 'They play human beings as they really are.'
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I have never gone out of fashion. And do you know why? Because I never sought it. When you don't seek it, it's always with you.
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Why are people afraid of getting older? You feel wiser. You feel more mature. You feel like you know yourself better. You would trade that for softer skin? Not me!
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We absolutely do need to make sure that our borders are secure. But what we need to realize and remember is that ICE was established in 2003 right at the same time as the Patriot Act, the AUMF, the Iraq War - and we look back at a lot of that time and legislation as a mistake now. And I think that ICE is right there as a part of it.
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I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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I've wanted to be an author as long as I can remember. English was always my favorite subject at school, so why I went on to do a degree in French is anyone's guess.
