Joanne Rowling Quotes
From here on in, Harry, I may be as woefully wrong as Humphrey Belcher who believed the time was ripe for a cheese cauldron.
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I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.
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No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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The television business is based on managed dissatisfaction. You're watching a great television show you're really wrapped up in? You might get 50 minutes of watching a week and then 18,000 minutes of waiting until the next episode comes along.
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In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.
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An image of the Earth, its landscapes, directly affects people. The beauty of the Earth creates enormous emotion, and through that emotion, you can transmit knowledge and raise consciousness.
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Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
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It's nice to have my mother as someone I can talk to about acting. My dad's a director, so when he comes to watch me on set, he think it's his set. He's always telling a production assistant, 'Can you get me five donuts?'
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.
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I kept writing all these ballads; they're me speaking about life. But how am I gonna do the live show I wanna do if I don't have something I can dance to?
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The U.S. and European markets have become mature, profit margins are lower, and equipment isn't so new. Because profits are relatively low, it limits the willingness of companies to invest in newer equipment.
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All peoples are entangled in the net of the world market.
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Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?
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Music Box has proven itself in a few short years to be a cutting edge distributor with a sophisticated understanding of both the market and cinema.
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Do you remember the wrestler Andre the Giant? Famous. He had acromegaly.
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I'm very much inspired by things that anger me. If I see bigotry, stupidity, or injustice on the news, I'm inspired to find a way to make it into something comedic and relatable. Anger inspires me. Stupidity inspires me. My family inspires me. My accountant inspires me. Everything and anything, really.
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One of the ways usually that you build a bipartisan agreement is one side gives up a little, and the other side gives up a little.
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More are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which He may be approached. In whatever name and form you worship Him, through them you will realise Him.
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Time is relative; its only worth depends upon what we do as it is passing.
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I like a girl with a good personality that I can have fun with. If I am taking you out on a date, let's eat burgers and cheese fries.
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From here on in, Harry, I may be as woefully wrong as Humphrey Belcher who believed the time was ripe for a cheese cauldron.
