Joanne Rowling Quotes
I love inventing names, but I also collect unusual names, so that I can look through my notebook and choose one that suits a new character.
Quotes to Explore
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Comfort and luxury are usually the chief requirements of life for your ego - its top priorities tend to be accumulations, achievements, and the approval of others.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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The Cold War did end in the victory of one side and in the defeat of the other. This reality cannot be denied, despite the understandable sensitivities that such a conclusion provokes among the tenderhearted in the West and some of the former leaders of the defeated side.
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As a unique person, I was bullied badly as a teen.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.
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For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.
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I know I'm good enough. I don't need to show it to you. Either you know who I am, or you don't.
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If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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I'm one of those guys who has to have a constant something going inside and in front of my face. If not, I get in trouble.
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I look formidable.
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I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.
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If there's anything that I've always said about myself is that to me, it's much more important for me to get to work with filmmakers that I've grown up loving and admiring.
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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
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Hand washing is the first basic step towards achieving any millennium goals for development. It saves lives.
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When I was in drama school, I really got into a dark place. I went to a therapist - it was really helpful to have that dialogue with someone. So I understand anxiety.
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Our ability to predict how the federal funds rate will evolve over time is quite limited because monetary policy will need to respond to whatever disturbances may buffet the economy.
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When men age, their love interests get younger. It doesn't stop them from doing different genres of stuff. As women age in film, you know, they go from the woman in charge to the mother, the grandmother... off a cliff somewhere.
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Suburbia, to me, was the most fantastical, unusual place. I thought it was Disneyland.
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You know a lot of what worked on this was taken from Harry Potter 2, the little Doby character, we had a lot of our skin stuff worked out and that helped a lot. We have a lot of exchange happening.
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As a parent, you have to figure out how to shape your kid's character. You want to have human beings who learn about good character. You have to be able to see your child with clarity, see the good side and the bad side of them, and work on the bad side and make them better so they fulfill their potential.
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I love inventing names, but I also collect unusual names, so that I can look through my notebook and choose one that suits a new character.
