Joanne Rowling Quotes
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I do have friends who make movies, but for the most part, I never really wanted to feel like I was part of an industry.
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I do remember the tour of 'Cats' in Philadelphia. I was 12 and had a stomach bug.
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People are always angry at America. They're absolutely certain that America either caused their problems or is deliberately not fixing their problems. But the anger is always directed at America and never at Americans.
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I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.
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Just let the wardrobe do the acting.
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I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.
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I've worked hard throughout my entire life, but I don't think all the hard work could have produced the same results without all the genetics I was given.
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Maybe black and white is the best medium for landscapes, I don't know.
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The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me... by newspapers and the Bible.
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I just don't eat too much. That's never been my problem.
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The gratification of desire is not happiness.
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Come dress yourself in love, let the journey begin.
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I don't think you should limit what you read.
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I studied in a medical college and qualified myself as a medical graduate.
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You gotta give everybody a new trend a new wave, something new to do.
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I appreciate when people enjoy my work, but I don't like being recognized in public.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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If the Europeans want to intervene, that's their business. But if I were president, I would remove every United States soldier from the Balkan peninsula.
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Very early it was noticed that I had a good memory; therefore I was insistently tormented with learning everything by heart.
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The king is as much bound by his oath not to infringe the legal rights of the people, as the people are bound to yield subjection to him. From whence it follows that as soon as the prince sets himself above the law, he loses the king in the tyrant. He does, to all intents and purposes, un-king himself.
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Staying chaste until marriage, a commandment of my faith, was one of the most difficult challenges of my young life. I had a powerful sense that if I did not get a grip on my identity, my ethics, and my religion, I would go off the rails.
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Bring me my bow of burning gold: Bring me my arrows of desire: Bring me my spear: O clouds, unfold! Bring me my chariot of fire.
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What is the real relation between happiness and goodness? It is only within a few generations that men have found courage to say that there is none.
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We have to choose between what is right, and what is easy.
