Joanne Rowling Quotes
As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. I wish you all very good lives.
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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I think my numbers speak for themselves.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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My favorite film is probably the finale - 'Deathly Hallows: Part 2'.
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I'd love to do something where I can act and dance at the same time, like on Broadway or in movies.
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Solange's new album, 'A Seat at the Table', is so many things at once: an antidote to hate, a celebration of blackness, an expression of the right to feel it all. After a move to Louisiana and period of self-reflection, the artist joined forces with a range of collaborators to put her new discoveries to music.
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I'm not going to lie; the most fun of writing these books is just saying, 'Where am I going to write about? Let me go there!'
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
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You are God's own masterpiece! That means you are not ordinary or average; you are a one-of-a-kind original.
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I felt like I had two fathers. I had my real father and the father in my head.
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Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness: the work.
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Space excites me. My dream is to go to space.
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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You gotta live life before you can talk about it. Sometimes when things don't work out in life, they work out on stage.
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We need to focus on building up our own nation and creating jobs here at home.
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The only routine with me is no routine at all.
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When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
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For each person, they live their life and their truth and how it works for them, and that's just kind of how it works for me. I'm not good at doing whatever the other way is - it wouldn't work for me.
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When John Travolta had the opportunity to do The Boy In The Plastic Bubble, he brought me and a couple other people from the movie to just be the students and have some parts, because he wanted to help us out. I thought that was really sweet.
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A small knowledge of human nature will convince us, that, with far the greatest part of mankind, interest is the governing principle... Few men are capable of making a continual sacrifice of all views of private interest, or advantage, to the common good. It is vain to exclaim against the depravity of human nature on this account; the fact is so, the experience of every age and nation has proved it and we must in a great measure, change the constitution of man, before we can make it otherwise. No institution, not built on the presumptive truth of these maxims can succeed.
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The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.
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I wanted to marry somebody who wasn't someone I had to be in any particular mood to want to be around - with close friends, you can be with them no matter what mood you're in.
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As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. I wish you all very good lives.
