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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Due to our consumer mindset, people are prone to jump from church to church, which weakens the church overall.
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From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts, as easily as sentences.
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With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.
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Painting is... a richer language than words... Painting operates through signs which are not abstract and incorporeal like words. The signs of painting are much closer to the objects themselves.
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Every shopaholic needs an accomplice.
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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.
