Joanne Rowling Quotes
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I ended the war a horse ahead.
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I'd assumed that a deal was a deal when Princeton admitted me, but I was wrong. The price of getting in - to the university itself, and to the great world it promised to open up - was an endless dunning for nebulous services that weren't included in the initial quote.
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I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.
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At my core, I know that the American Dream is about the opportunity to work hard to make your future.
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When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.
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I'm very wary of news on television.
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Along with racial equality and the late bloom of women's rights, future generations will have to explain how, in the past, gays were misunderstood and publicly humiliated for loving each other, and, eventually, how they stood together and conquered stupidity and hypocritical hatred, and fought their way out of marginalization.
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I've never had to compromise myself for a job, ever.
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I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.
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Talking to other people who make low-budget movies, everyone kind of has the same struggle.
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I'm not completely at ease at rapping, I can't do it well yet.
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I applied for funding to embark on an overseas field trip in Iceland, and spent six weeks there happily holed up in the national archives, museums and libraries, sifting through ministerial and parish records, censuses, maps, microfilm, logs, and local histories.
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Being away from home for six months of the year and seeing your kids grow up on Skype all that time - I think I saw Molly walk for the first time on Skype. That's not good.
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Somebody gave me this drum machine and somebody else asked me to program something for a project. I really liked programming and I was really interested in using the drum machine.
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I've always had mostly women come out to see me perform. That's the reason the guys show up; they know R. Kelly is going to draw the women. Most of the songs I'm singing are catering to women anyway.
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Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.
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It's a lot like life. I think 99 percent of what goes on in life, we have very little control over.
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I worked in a pet store and people would ask how big I would get.
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I'd like to work for as long as possible and form connections with the labels I work for.
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Truthfully I wanna rhyme like common senseNext best thing I do a record with common sense
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I really don't believe in magic.
