Joanne Rowling Quotes
Cobbled streets and no shops open past six o'clock, a communal life that seemed to revolve around church, and where you could often hear bird song and nothing else: Gaia felt as though she had fallen through a portal into a land lost in time.
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In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.
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I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.
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People make the mistake of thinking they've got to perform just because someone has said something about their potential.
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I hate running. I know I'm curvier - I know I'm small, but I'm not ripped. But I make a choice to be that way. I realize my arms aren't as toned as Halle Berry's but I don't want them to be.
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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
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I get mad quick and and go off at the handle quick.
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When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.
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The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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TV's been good to me.
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We always hear from newspapers that while people understand the environmental challenge, they are unwilling to stomach the solutions. The trouble is, we only ever hear about the solutions from the media, and for whatever reason, they are almost always caricatured beyond recognition. If there's no appetite for green, it's not surprising.
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I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations.
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Those who live are those who fight.
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If you want to meet a woman, it's best just to smile and say hi.
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Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
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To stay a great singer or guitar player, you've got to do it 24/7. That's what I do.
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Engineering undergraduates should not be charged fees. They should receive grants, not student loans, and the government will get the money back long-term from increased exports.
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My father gave me Dostoevsky's 'Crime and Punishment' when I was in junior high; my junior high, angst-filled soul responded to that.
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September 11 was a wake-up call to me. I don't want to contribute to the hate in any shape or form. I now regret in the past being silent about what I have heard in the Islamic discourse and being part of that with my own anger.
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Cancer doesn't just happen to me; it happens to my best friend; it happens to everyone who means something in my life... The truth is, it does take a village to take care of somebody who's sick, and so we just, at all times, tried to be authentic to the actual experience we had.
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Dealing with ads is depressing. You don't make anyone's life better by making advertisements work better.
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Cobbled streets and no shops open past six o'clock, a communal life that seemed to revolve around church, and where you could often hear bird song and nothing else: Gaia felt as though she had fallen through a portal into a land lost in time.
