Joanne Rowling Quotes
It is a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.
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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
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I've always had an affinity for the fashion industry - I've always been drawn to it. But I grew up in Calgary in Canada, which, being a fairly isolated city, is not particularly known for having anything to do with fashion.
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I'm not convinced about marriage. Divorce is so easy, and that fact that gay people are not allowed to marry takes much of the meaning out of it. Committing yourself to one person is sacred.
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Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.
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Boys, I'm one of those umpires that misses 'em every once in a while so if it's close, you'd better hit it.
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I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.
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There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.
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My eye is ever on those who love me.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.
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I had a lovely childhood. For family holidays, we went as far as the car could take us - we would drive to Florida, even though it would take three days. I didn't know we didn't have a lot of money because there was always food on the table. I didn't have a lot of stuff, but I did figure skating for a long time, and I always had my skates.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance.
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I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.
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My opinion can be completely different after a show.
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Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.
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My message is: You don't have to give up being popular, fun, or fashionable in order to be smart; they can go hand and hand. Doing math is a great way to exercise your brain; being smart is going to make you more powerful in life.
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Everyone needs help when they try something new.
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I had been writing songs for other people for a while, and I made a demo and I put it on my Myspace, which Perez Hilton found and blogged about on his site.
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The dangers of not thinking clearly are much greater now than ever before. It's not that there's something new in our way of thinking - it's that credulous and confused thinking can be much more lethal in ways it was never before.
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I did get in a few fights in school. Kids threw around anti-Semitic slurs, not knowing necessarily what they meant. It was probably just something they picked up somewhere, as kids do.
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One thing I loved when I was growing up, you maybe saw one review from a magazine like 'Rolling Stone,' but now there are 150 reviews before an album even comes out. There are so many opinions out there, but the only one that really matters is your own.
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If you look at our theories of social pathology and then at the dismal conditions in which children grow up in our ghettos, you would predict that all of them would be on drugs or psychological basket cases. Yet if you use criteria like gainful employment, forming partnerships and life without crime, you will find that most of those kids make it.
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It is a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.
