Joanne Rowling Quotes
They’re evacuating the younger kids and everyone’s meeting in the Great Hall to get organized. We’re fighting.
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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Understanding that being nervous, having doubts and lacking confidence are emotions that are human is how you deal with it. It is okay to feel that way... and then understanding that you can work through it.
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For 10 days after the Olympics, I couldn't go back to my house because people were sitting outside waiting to take my photo. That was a bit rubbish. At first I was open: 'Yeah, of course you can take a photo...' but after a while, it got to the point where I thought, 'Whoa, I don't like this attention anymore.'
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
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My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!
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I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission. I think this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Doors keep opening. In the end, it's the best use of my skills. I've finally consented to the idea that I'm an artist.
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I'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning.
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Adventure should be 80 percent 'I think this is manageable,' but it's good to have that last 20 percent where you're right outside your comfort zone. Still safe, but outside your comfort zone.
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I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.
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I'm an old-fashioned girl, and I didn't believe in living with people, so I guess I married for the wrong reasons at times.
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I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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I have the necessary lack of tact.
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If you live a rebellious lifestyle, then you rebel against things because they go against your ideals and the integrity of who you are as a person.
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I am deeply immersed in my medical work, and it can get very intense, but I believe that the connection and devotion is key. You can not work on diseases as devastating and deadly as Lassa and Ebola without complete trust and respect for the individuals with whom you work. My lab and colleagues are just extraordinary, and we are a family.
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Part of what made 'The Bling Ring' such a fun, freeing experience was that we got to wear these really over-the-top clothes we'd never pick in real life - like for the nightclub scenes, we'd have on these really short, really tight dresses. But you know what - I actually learned how to walk in heels on that set!
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I am not a method actor, though I studied for a year with Lee Strasburg.
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One of the great things I learned from how cooperative theater is, you can't be too precious about your ideas.
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Church is great, but I found my church here. Hugh Hefner has been nothing but a gentleman.
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Facts are facts: No president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the Great Depression inherited a worse economy, bigger job losses or deeper problems from his predecessor. But President Obama is moving America forward, not back.
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Food is the new Internet.
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My uncle was in a ska band called the Top Cats; that was my first proper influence, as I was taken to see them every week. It sort of built up, the want to replicate it creatively.
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They’re evacuating the younger kids and everyone’s meeting in the Great Hall to get organized. We’re fighting.
