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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It's not about how much you make: it's about how good the quality is. You'll be better off as a company making fewer things and concentrating on those and how you bring those to market... in a very less cluttered way, even though the marketplace is more cluttered.
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I think like a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Failure is a great teacher. At the same time, you must remember, success will never last... Whether it's tech or fashion, it must be for the customer.
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I remember lying in bed one night when I was 15 and deciding I was ready to go into acting properly. I'd put it off until then because I didn't feel I was ready to handle the rejections.
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Passions are generally roused from great conflict.
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If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
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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.
