Joanne Rowling Quotes
He felt that he was still groping in the dark; he had chosen his path but kept looking back, wondering whether he had misread the signs, whether he should not have taken the other way.
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There's a critic that I love, Manohla Dargis of the 'L.A. Weekly.' I like the underground point of view; it's my old radical sympathies. Maybe I like her because she likes my movies.
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Why should I marry? One marries to have children, but I already have children! My nieces and nephews are my children.
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Looking back, the biggest mistake I made was feeling ashamed of it. Acne is a part of life. You don't need to be embarrassed of it.
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The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy.
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As frightening as this may sound, what you see in the books is the way I see the world. And so far I haven't seen anything, either in Florida or elsewhere, to dissuade me from it.
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I just never, in my career, got into doing a lot of press.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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The tricky thing is music is supposed to be very mysterious; the way it's made is mysterious. Then people like to get upset with the music business.
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In a word, if any kind of slavery can be vindicated by the Holy Scriptures, we are already sure our making and holding the Negroes our slaves, as we do, cannot be vindicated by any thing we can find there, but is condemned by the whole of divine revelation.
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I said back in 2010 when I was rubbish at the European championships, 'If I never win an omnium until 2012, I don't care.' I then won Olympic gold.
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Human beings can remain spiritual and religious while enjoying the benefits of rational administration of their affairs.
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When I look at my body of work, I've played a lot of characters who are morally conflicted - 'I'm right, no I'm wrong, I don't know what to do!' I want to play more characters who don't care as much, and who aren't as measured. They are what they are, no apologies.
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I think it's disingenuous to believe that being born into a privileged world means you feel like you are having an easy time.
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One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
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At the end of the day we want to bring stability and hope to Iraq. That's the only way to defeat terrorism.
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The only big things I've purchased are my dad's heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.
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You have to like your character, because if you don't, no one else will either.
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To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.
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My hair gets very light in the summer, but the problem with using all these products and going into the pool a lot is that my hair gets very yellow. I love purple shampoo!
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I wrote a novel because I had a yen to do it. I believe this is sufficient reason to set out to tell a story.
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The way to entice people into cooking is to cook delicious things.
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What I realized was how difficult an hour show is and how miserable you can be if you're not happy doing it.
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We should take care, in inculcating patriotism into our boys and girls, that is a patriotism above the narrow sentiment which usually stops at one's country, and thus inspires jealousy and enmity in dealing with others... Our patriotism should be of the wider, nobler kind which recognises justice and reasonableness in the claims of others and which lead our country into comradeship with...the other nations of the world.
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He felt that he was still groping in the dark; he had chosen his path but kept looking back, wondering whether he had misread the signs, whether he should not have taken the other way.
