Joanne Rowling Quotes
I'm not putting them on,” said old Archie in indignation. “I like a healthy breeze 'round my privates, thanks.
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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You know, my family stood for something that they believed in, and I wasn't about to turn my back on them.
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The first prize for any production is, if you can find a location that means you don't have to build sets, that will serve, and is not excessively expensive to hire, then it can save you a lot of money.
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Saints were saints because they acted with loving kindness whether they felt like it or not.
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I started wearing all black around the time I got into Nirvana. I first heard 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' when I was about 12, and I remember jumping on my bed, so excited about it.
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As for swimming, I'm now in the pool 5 days a week from 8 to 10 a.m. And I'm in the gym for an hour and a half, 4 days a week. Two days upper body, two days lower.
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Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
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I was quite short and chubby until I was 14, when I shot up.
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I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
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'The Voice' was the first real job I've ever had that wasn't just messing around with music.
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A lot of people can't remember things because they weren't actually there to begin with - they don't take it all in.
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Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.
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I play the father in the scene when Will and Tommy go back to Tommy's old apartment. It was a big mistake. I hope not to be in the next movie I direct.
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I don't want to set the world up for surprises.
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all.
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Nine months after we submitted the original screenplay for 'The Attack,' the studio that was involved pulled out. I've been told that 'you don't write in a French way; you can't make these multicultural films.'
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I had my own motor boat which we would take to Khadakvasla, but that was 40 years ago.
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The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.
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I am comfortable with who I am as a person. I've never felt that pressure of feeling like I need to fit into something else or be something else because that's not me. I work out and I'm healthy, but that's not to lose weight; that's just to feel good.
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The power of thought,-the magic of the mind!
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It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self- estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.
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I'm not putting them on,” said old Archie in indignation. “I like a healthy breeze 'round my privates, thanks.
