Joanne Rowling Quotes
There will be books written about Harry. Every child in the world will know his name.
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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.
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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.
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Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.
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I always say, keep a diary and someday it'll keep you.
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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.
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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.
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If I don't get healthy food, my staff cooks for me.
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I'm process-orientated. Awards, by their nature, are results-orientated.
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The civil rights fight was a very important fight.
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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.
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I hate to lose. It's a bad feeling, but, I mean, it kind of gets you resettled, gets you back right.
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The best people to provide valuable information about any society are the children of that society who belong to its culture and are part of its collective conscience.
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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.
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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.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I think movies lost a lot when they went to stereo and five-track sound.
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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.
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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.
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Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.
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Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!
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You cannot bring about prosperity without discouraging thrift.
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One of the important things to learn about parenting is that the more you worry about a child, the less the child will worry abouthim- or herself....instead of worrying, watch with fascination and wonder as your child's life unfolds, and help the child take responsibility for his or her own life.
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The U.N.'s humanitarian agencies rely on charitable donations from the public as well as the generosity of governments to continue their lifesaving work in response to natural disasters, armed conflicts and other emergencies.
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There will be books written about Harry. Every child in the world will know his name.
