Joanne Rowling Quotes
Some readers and commentators really want to scrape your insides out to make sense of your work. Others say, there's the work, it speaks for itself. Personally, I fall somewhere in the middle.
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The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
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When I was starting out and had to cut my teeth and build my resume to get in, I had to basically work for free on a lot of things.
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I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
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To be a designer today is to be an entrepreneur. Whether you're a two-man operation in Shoreditch or a 3,000-person, vertically integrated brand, you need to have the wherewithal to run your business through investment, considering everything from start-up funds to your exit plan or what it takes to go public.
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We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.
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You shouldn't try to manufacture progress.
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Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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I really enjoy doing films, but I also love television. I certainly would not be against doing some regular television work and being on a show that runs several years.
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There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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I don't believe we have defined health care reform very well in this country.
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Clinton has played a major role in giving companies like Cipla credibility, for which I will always be grateful.
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Investment in early education is not a Liberal or Conservative idea. Nor should it be decided along party lines.
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I get mad quick and and go off at the handle quick.
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My real name is Amethyst. It sounds like a stage name. My mom is kind of crazy.
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I don't know how anyone could stop working.
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As long as I love Beauty I am young.
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I really don't think of my work in terms of a genre. I think of it in terms of what I want to say, what I think is cool, and what I'm good at.
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I was part of a group called Casanova Fly, doing bouncer work, attending college and working in a pizza shop when I first met producer Sylvia Robinson who came into the pizza shop where I was flipping the dough. I was rapping in the park in Englewood, and she heard about what I was doing.
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The Republicans here in Concord and down in Washington D.C. would have us believe that the War on Women is a phony war. Michele Bachmann and Fox News would have us believe that the whole thing is 'political fiction.'
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No, one of the great things about my three-year deal is that it's year-round. They've offered me an opportunity to cover a lot of things in the offseason, too.
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Some readers and commentators really want to scrape your insides out to make sense of your work. Others say, there's the work, it speaks for itself. Personally, I fall somewhere in the middle.
