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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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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Writers, not psychiatrists, are the true interpreters of the human mind and heart, and we have been at it for a very long time.
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The only way to avoid age discrimination in Hollywood is to die young.
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Jimmy Grants is my first stop every time I go home to Australia. They make the best souvlakis you have ever tasted.
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If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.
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I live in the South; there are Confederate flags everywhere.
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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.
