Joanne Rowling Quotes
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I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity.
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If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture.
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The focus of Congress is on keeping the nation secure - and it doesn't see that food security is an essential part of that responsibility. Instead of putting more food on the tables of America, they are busy finding ways to take it away.
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Beetroot is a great salad ingredient, especially when still warm; the colour ain't bad, either.
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From day one, I've always tried to be an honest man. I ran for Congress to make a difference and not to just be another politician.
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I like touring extensively because I think the more hours you spend onstage, the more you know who you are onstage.
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When you conduct opera, you control the stage. But with a film, the film controls you.
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We had so much press, and then they get bored... I think we've done well to keep going.
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I feel as if someone is going to come along, feel my collar and say: 'Do you really think you can get people to read books you've made up about people that don't exist?'
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Figo is as important to England as Beckham is.
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When I was a kid growing up, my dad being a football coach, he asked the same question of all the assistants that he ever hired: 'Is your goal to be a head football coach?'
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Confidence in a bloke would be arrogance in a woman. For years, I didn't give interviews because I was scared of people judging me or thinking I was arrogant.
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The similarities are limited but real. They amount to a shared disgust with politics as usual in America. The Tea Party focuses on the federal government; Occupy Wall Street focuses on corporate America and its influence over the government.
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For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.
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There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside.
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People just want to know that they matter.
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There was buried in Ruth humanitarianism beyond belief, an intelligence he was never given credit for, a childish desire to be over-virile, living up to credits given his home-run power - and yet a need for intimate affection and respect, and a feverish desire to play baseball, perform, act and live a life he didn't and couldn't take time to understand.
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We are only peripherally tied to the lives of others. It takes a long long time for us to become deeply involved with others, and for some this never happens.
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Armageddon. The slaughter of humanity. An atomic war no one wanted, but which no one had the wisdom to avoid.
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A family is really a union of two separate entities. When you get married, you are marrying one family into another.
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I have yet to meet a carnivore who doesn't love a sausage roll.
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I don't have an off-duty wardrobe.
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Rome was not built in a day. As you continue to struggle to make ends meet, somewhere, somehow, you will make it.
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I'm pro Union.
