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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You'd be safe to hold 5% of your assets and savings in gold and silver. Insurance for the future.
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The smile is the shortest distance between two persons (Smilet er den korteste afstand mellem to mennesker)
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No end to sorrow, caused by the same endless fears.
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If I can build a coalition of people who are interested in what I have to say and what I'm thinking, I hope they'll come with me if I want to go tell a story that doesn't have dinosaurs in it - which I plan to do.
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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.
