Joanne Rowling Quotes
"Oh, of course," said Ron, clapping a hand to his forehead. "I forgot we'll be hunting down Voldemort in a mobile library."
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I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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If you're an English actor and turn up in America, they don't have an opinion about where you sit. They have no idea what auditions to send you to, so they send you to everything.
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.
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If God has given you the world's goods in abundance, it is to help you gain those of Heaven and to be a good example of sound teaching to your sons, servants, and relatives.
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
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Writing can't be too calculated. My best writing is when I set it aside, move on. It's not when I'm crafting a sentence, thinking about what word should follow another.
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I enjoy passing time in my house. I'll get up, head out on the terrace, think about what to do, fool around oiling the floorboards or hanging pictures askew.
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Eighteenth-century matrons would have never have dreamed of appointing a redhaired wet nurse for their precious offspring - redheads passed on their horrible characters through their milk.
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I don't wear plaid shirts.
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Emotional messiness is my reason for life. In acting, it's so important.
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There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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To me, success is choice and opportunity.
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Change is the one thing we can be sure of.
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You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.
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Preparation is the be-all of good trial work. Everything else - felicity of expression, improvisational brilliance - is a satellite around the sun. Thorough preparation is that sun.
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With all its technical sophistication, the photographic camera remains a coarse device compared to the human hand and brain.
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I'd say that anyone who is going to start a minority program to try to think in terms of a big library and some small kind of museum.
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Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little.
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In terms of stage presence for me, I'm influenced by a myriad of things. A lot of punk performers, people like Dave Vanian from The Damned and Davey Havok from AFI was a huge influence on me when I was younger.
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"Oh, of course," said Ron, clapping a hand to his forehead. "I forgot we'll be hunting down Voldemort in a mobile library."
