Joanne Rowling Quotes
The idea of Dumbledore's corpse frightened Harry much less than the possibility that he might have misunderstood the living Dumbledore's intentions.
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I was a big 'Battlestar Galactica' fan and 'Star Trek' fan. I grew up watching those.
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Ever since I took to the streets when I was 17 to protest at great personal risk against the communist dictatorship, I have been a passionate democrat.
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Tackling affordable housing via land use planning won't necessarily solve the problem.
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For obstacle racing, you wanna be as light, lean, and fast as possible. So, if I lift a lot of weights, I'm gonna be a little bit heavier, which will make it harder for me to hold myself up.
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My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.
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Comics are too big. You can't say any kind or genre of comics is better than another. You can say so subjectively. But to say it like it's objective is wrong. It's wrong morally, because it cuts out stuff that's good.
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Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.
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No matter how powerful, countries cannot rule the whole world. The world is ruled by brains, by justice, by morals and by fairness.
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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.
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I'd love to do a Broadway show, but I can't because of the style I sing.
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I've done a lot of comedy recently, so I would really like to explore something else. I am hankering after a really meaty, dramatic role... like Natalie Portman's part in Black Swan.'
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Liberalism will beat totalitarianism by killing it softly, not by mimicking it.
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Before I can finish one song, another is knocking on my door in my head.
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A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice.
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I'm capable of living in the moment. And I'm especially capable of living in the moment of sitting on my sofa and watching other people's moments.
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They can keep their God, they can keep their Light. I want the world back. I want questions, not the answer. I want my own life back, and my own death!
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What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?
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It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
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The assumption that Washington could and would resolve Lehman Brothers without a bankruptcy, as it had Bear Stearns, was the single biggest mistake in the series of mistakes in 2007 and 2008 that led to the financial panic and the ensuing epidemic of job losses.
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So peaceful shalt thou end thy blissful days, And steal thyself from life by slow decays.
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I love what I do for a living, but the other side, that aspect of being famous or a celebrity's got zero interest to me.
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My sister and I, you will recollect, were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two souls which are so closely allied.
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The idea of Dumbledore's corpse frightened Harry much less than the possibility that he might have misunderstood the living Dumbledore's intentions.
