Joanne Rowling Quotes
You can try, but you seem cleverer than Fudge, so I'd have thought you'd have learned from his mistakes. He tried intervening at Hogwarts. You might have noticed he's not Minister anymore, but Dumbledore's still headmaster. I'd leave Dumbledore alone, if I were you.
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I am getting to that age where I am too old to play the boy next door and too young to play Uncle Fester.
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I always get scared. I can't read scripts. I'm scared, scary movies and stuff.
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I could live very quietly, do advertising to earn money.
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I think the Catholic faith is consistent with the kind of conservatism I believe in.
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We seem, as a culture, to start to adhere to these antiheroes and have grown tired of the traditional, straight-up-and-down good guy.
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It's very difficult to raise money, especially in the United States, for independent movies.
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My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
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I'm addicted to food, so if you bring the cake and stuff to my house, I might walk by and take a swipe of icing and keep it moving. So what happens is I try to not keep it around.
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One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
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I have a son, Mason, who is disabled - cerebral palsy - and he does not walk independently, sit independently or speak. He uses a talking computer. I started becoming an advocate for him when he was 3 years old.
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Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.
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If you care about yourself and what you do, you get nervous about it. You just don't take the money and go home.
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When I sit down to write, I consider myself an artist.
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I don't know if I'm a method actor.
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I try not to second-guess editors; they're the clients, and I have no expectation that my strip is going to make it into every paper every day.
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I just mean it's very difficult for me to watch my work, in some ways, because I am critical of what I didn't get across or I thought I was making one point.
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I heard them cry - the peacocks. Was it a cry against the twilight Or against the leaves themselves Turning in the wind, Turning as the flames Turned in the fire, Turning as the tails of the peacocks Turned in the loud fire, Loud as the hemlocks Full of the cry of the peacocks? Or was it a cry against the hemlocks?
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The 50s face was angry, the 60s face was well-fed, the 70s face was foxy. Perhaps it was the right expression: there was a lot to be wary about.
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Charity never lacks what is her own, all that she needs for her own security. Not alone does she have it, she abounds with it. She wants this abundance for herself that she may share it with all; and she reserves enough for herself so that she disappoints nobody. For charity is perfect only when full.
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I considered obesity a disease. It can destroy you from within. It almost destroyed me, and I do not want that to happen to anybody.
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What I was doing was servicing the needs of my constituents and I was not allowed to do that because I did not toe the line on U.S. policy for Israel.
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You can try, but you seem cleverer than Fudge, so I'd have thought you'd have learned from his mistakes. He tried intervening at Hogwarts. You might have noticed he's not Minister anymore, but Dumbledore's still headmaster. I'd leave Dumbledore alone, if I were you.
