Joanne Rowling Quotes
The best way to get children excited about reading is to read to them from the beginning of their lives.
Quotes to Explore
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I've never been a partier.
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Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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'Hellraiser' is an amazing world that Clive Barker created, and it is such a beautifully vibrant and surreal world within which to work. It is also not an undaunting canvas. It is a canvas created by an artist.
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It's a wonderful feeling being a bridge to the past and unite generations.
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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Once we understand just how to control genes, we have the potential for spinal cord regeneration, bone regeneration, and so on. It might also give us plumper chickens.
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I worked in SRK and Salman Khan's films as a child artiste, so Bollywood has always been on my radar.
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I like someone who's not afraid to be a kid!
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The best a health care system can do is to equip itself to meet the needs of each individual woman and birth. Those needs run the gamut from undisturbed home birth to planned cesarean section.
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Mum and Dad were both happy for me to do what I wanted.
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Anyone can wear my dresses. They will look good on any figure, no matter what shape you are. I want to celebrate a woman's inner strength, to inspire real women and make them feel confident and beautiful.
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I consciously decided not to be a 'London' actor. Those gangster movies made a lot of East End actors think they were movie stars. And I was very aware that they were going to go out of fashion.
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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
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Lyndon Johnson, his 44-state landslide in 1964 and Great Society notwithstanding, was by 1968 a failed president being repudiated in the primaries of his own party.
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We had a lot of difficulty in getting the French to accept the pyramid. They thought we were trying to import a piece of Egypt until I pointed out that their obelisk was also from Egypt and the Place des Pyramides is around the corner. Then they accepted it. The pyramid at the Louvre, though, is just the tip.
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Michael Jackson and I talk all the time. I think we understand each other in a way that most people can't understand either of us.
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Talking about money is garish. It's tacky.
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Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.
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I often feel like not writing! Sometimes I overcome it by just sitting there until writing happens. Sometimes I don't write, because books often need periods of percolation.
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Because many squid have brain nerve fibres that are hundreds of times thicker than those of humans, neuroscientists have long used them for research. These nerve fibres have led to so many breakthroughs in the study of neurons that many scientists joke that the squid should receive a Nobel Prize.
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As a coach, they would love to sit there and say, 'It's going to be five steps, you're going to hitch up into a perfect pocket, you're going to look at number one - no; you're going to go to number two - no.' It doesn't work that way.
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The best way to get children excited about reading is to read to them from the beginning of their lives.
