Joanne Rowling Quotes
Wands are only as powerful as the wizards who use them. Some wizards just like to boast that theirs are bigger and better than other people's.
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Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.
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Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.
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I'm a four-down guy. I can rush the passer and stop the run. I know I can be a difference-maker.
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You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.
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I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.
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It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.
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The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.
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Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.
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When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.
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A lot of times, songs can blend together on the radio because there's so many great songs out there.
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Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences. Ask a question, translated into many languages and somebody, somewhere in the world, will have an answer.
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When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.
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Killers can seem smart when you can't figure out who they are.
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I need to have something else going on. I'm able to write a lot if I have an episode of 'Friday Night Lights' going on my computer.
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I've approached every character I've ever played with a poem, first and foremost.
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I want to be respected as an actor. There's my ego. But I don't have a great need to be liked by an audience.
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The biggest mistakes I made in my career were when I said, 'If I do this movie, I'll be able to do a couple more movies.' Those are the times I really got ugly.
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I guess art itself is insane. Its actual function is rarely clear, and yet people give their hearts and souls and lives to it, and have for all of history.
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Music is a very, very powerful tool that filmmakers use to sway people into emotions that they intend you to feel.
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I know people think I invented the Victoria sandwich, but I'm really not that old.
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People are always asking me if the industry is changing, and my answer is always that it is changing only as much as we are. Many South Asian actors complain about being pigeonholed into playing terrorists and cab drivers, but it's time that we stop talking about it. The industry will always say 'No' till we have enough to convince them.
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Wands are only as powerful as the wizards who use them. Some wizards just like to boast that theirs are bigger and better than other people's.
