Joanne Rowling Quotes
How awful it was, thought Tessa, remembering Fats the toddler, the way tiny ghosts of your living children haunted your heart; they could never know, and would hate it if they did, how their growing was a constant bereavement.
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My sister, mom and I all wear the same size, so I shop a lot at a boutique called 'my mother's closet' that is right down the hall from my bedroom. She has vintage Comme des Garcons dresses that I feel so elegant wearing.
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Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.
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I love French films, and I copy things I see in them. I read magazines and also look at Tumblr. I love nails, so I literally just search the word 'nails' on Tumblr and start looking.
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After you get what you want you don't want it.
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So many boys and girls talk the same way, listen to the same music, look the same. If I'm out, I'll notice the person who looks different before I notice the person who's, 'really hot.'
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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
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I try not to picture a reader when I'm writing. It's like trying to make a great table but not picturing anybody sitting at it.
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Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.
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If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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Hypnotism is trespass into the territory of another's consciousness. Its temporary phenomena have nothing in common with the miracles performed by men of divine realization.
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A Tea Party tidal wave is coming.
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I love the process of acting, and to turn your passion into a career is the biggest gift.
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I love being a part of Aqua Teen.
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I started to realize I wasn't like every other boy.
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I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation.
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I don't necessarily like being defined by my profession.
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Most jobs today are still structured the same way they were 50 years ago, when most families had someone who could stay at home.
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Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.
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I started writing songs, I guess, when I was about 13 or 14, but I didn't know if they were good enough yet or anything.
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I have seen lonely people of advancing age, yet as constant as angels, keeping faith to those they loved who fell in wars that current generations, not having known them, cannot even forget. The sight of them moving hesitantly among the tablets and crosses is enough to break your heart.
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Never let me hear anyone say again that a Socialist State cannot provide outlets for those with initiative. The rewards given to ability in the U.S.S.R. at all levels are far greater than those given to the employed in capitalist Britain. I have seen it and it works.
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How awful it was, thought Tessa, remembering Fats the toddler, the way tiny ghosts of your living children haunted your heart; they could never know, and would hate it if they did, how their growing was a constant bereavement.
