Joanne Rowling Quotes
I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.
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Guinea pigs are quite difficult to draw, I think, because they're so furry.
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CGI has fully ruined car crashes. Because how can you be impressed with them now? When you watch them in the '70s, it was real cars, real metal, real blasts. They're really doing it and risking their lives. But I knew CGI was gonna start taking over.
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Given a choice between Charlie Mingus and Eric Dolphy or Joe Strummer and Lou Reed, there was no choice. I like Reed and Strummer, but it's kiddie music.
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I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.
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I'd like to do something with Michael Buble, Harry Connick Jr., Tim McGraw, Justin Timberlake, and Gwen Stefani.
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I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.
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Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.
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It is my nature to strive to do my best. This does tend to take a toll on you.
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There's the part of my life that the public and I share together. And there's the part that's mine to keep for myself. And that's mine. For me.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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For me, soccer was a dance.
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I just work hard and do things as they come along. But it has been a challenge to learn that I have to say 'no' to things and to know how and what to prioritize.
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I believe that everyone has some huge talent in them; the really lucky ones discover what it is.
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When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.
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A lot of my family on both sides have worked in education and nursing, and my grandmother was a nurse; my sister is a nurse, and her - my other sister's daughter is going into nursing. There's a lot of that in the family.
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To know God is to be transformed, and thus to be introduced to a life that could not otherwise be experienced.
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I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
