Joanne Rowling Quotes
There will be books written about Harry. Every child in the world will know his name.Joanne Rowling
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I read about violent things. I think what I get out of that is entertainment by learning about different things, and reading the genre and getting an understanding of motivations. But at the end of the day, it's still a book, and I can walk away.
Karin Slaughter -
I just let the songs tell me what to do - they are my guides, and they are the boss. So I am subservient to the songs, and I let them tell me what to do. I don't judge them; I just write whatever comes to me.
Valerie June -
Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.
Ibrahim Babangida -
I always say, keep a diary and someday it'll keep you.
Mae West -
When I pull into a city and I rent a car and it's Nashville, or it's London, or I'm driving in the taxi to the hotel, and on comes one of my songs, it's like, 'Oh my God, they're still playing these songs on the radio.' And you still feel tearful and very grateful that somebody still likes these songs that you made up.
Randy Bachman The Guess Who -
I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.
Jack Germond
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The civil rights fight was a very important fight.
Walter Cronkite -
I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.
Yo-Yo Ma -
Minorities within nation-states frayed by global capitalism are naturally more resentful of hollowed-out but still heavily centralised systems of political and economic domination.
Pankaj Mishra -
I think I'm lucky having parents that have been in show business for a while, and they don't care about the shiny stuff so much. They raised me in that way - to stay grounded, not to chase the shiny, pretty things.
Zoe Kravitz -
I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
I think movies lost a lot when they went to stereo and five-track sound.
Sam Raimi
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My books cover many aspects of daily life through which your children will recognize their own relationships in their families and communities.
Patricia Polacco -
When I was 5, I wore a tie, and I wanted to change my name to Larry, which probably tipped my parents off that I was gay.
Laura Ricketts -
I do have, like, a regular childhood. I mean, I'm treated the same.
Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson -
I try very hard to be bad, but people never take me seriously.
Gary Lineker -
I think a lot of people are curious about what makes people do what they do, and I guess my curiosity isn't hidden in any way.
Karin Slaughter -
I like to write a lot of satire.
Earl King
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I want to go to film college to learn about the departments and how everything works. Then I'm going to start directing.
Mackenzie Foy -
My favorite thing about motherhood is the outpouring of love that is non-judgmental and beautiful. My daughter just makes me happy, and she motivates me to be a kid again.
Christine Flores -
I still do have the little lunch bag that my mother made out of a towel and embroidered with my name on it for when I went to kindergarten.
Maira Kalman -
It's not just that individuals have lost faith in the integrity of their leaders, it's that they no longer believe society's most powerful institutions are acting in their interests.
Gary Hamel -
There will be books written about Harry. Every child in the world will know his name.
Joanne Rowling