Joanne Rowling Quotes
I must admit, Peter, I have difficulty in understanding why an innocent man would want to spend twelve years as a rat.
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The day I finished 'Twilight,' I came home and started bulking up. For 'New Moon,' I'm 30 pounds heavier than I was in 'Twilight.'
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I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.
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In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
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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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I don't like allegories.
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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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The only reality show that I do tune in for is 'Shark Tank.'
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Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical.
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My brother and I had many games. We were inseparable. We had a little team going on between us. We had even a language that was kind of like pig latin. So we'd speak in the language. It's called Op.
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I'm brilliant at cooking my stepmother's scrambled egg recipe. The secret is to put eggs, butter, milk, and seasoning together in the saucepan, and to keep stirring with a wooden spoon under a low heat until the preferred consistency is reached.
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Well, I needed the work - that's the honest answer. I haven't worked for a while, a couple of years. So I thought it would be nice to get back to work and earn some money.
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In '94, we made the deal during collective bargaining that wasn't the right deal, just to save the season. Allowing the 'in the crease' rule, the foot-in-the-crease rule, we should have not done.
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To anybody who says to me, 'I'm in character,' I say, 'You should be in an asylum.' If you don't know that you're pretending, then you should really seek medical help. I don't have patience for that stuff.
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I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial.
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I wouldn't be able to do the songs as long as I've been doing if I didn't feel the pulse of the world. But I can feel people and I know what they want. I feel like I know how they are, because I am the people. And I just have a gift.
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We filmed 'Expelled' in Santa Clarita at an all-girl's school. There were twelve hour days.
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You've got to separate the singer and the songs.
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It was an outdoor Shakespeare theater that I grew up at. That feels like home, and the place I'm always trying to figure out how to get to.
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When I am dead, no pageant train Shall waste their sorrows at my bier, Nor worthless pomp of homage vain Stain it with hypocritic tear.
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I can create clothes for so many different time periods. I've always tried to avoid being pigeonholed. Plus, everything I learn about design and costume from one movie somehow works its way into something else.
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One way to find food for thought is to use the fork in the road, the bifurcation that marks the place of emergence in which a new line of development begins to branch off.
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Truth is poetry; it is the grandest poetry.
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I never studied jazz technically; I just know and love the music.
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I must admit, Peter, I have difficulty in understanding why an innocent man would want to spend twelve years as a rat.
