Joanne Rowling Quotes
From this point forth, we shall be leaving the firm foundation of fact and journeying together through the murky marshes of memory into thickets of wildest guesswork.
Quotes to Explore
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I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.
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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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Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
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Food doesn't necessarily have to suck in order to be healthy. It doesn't have to be terrible to be healthy anymore.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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I actually wanted to first direct and produce, but then I got this very cool opportunity to be in front of the camera once.
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I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.
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I think an encore is perfectly acceptable, but I find it so weird when people do two or three.
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I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
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I went to my boss, and I said, 'Look, I'd like to design these ties because I think they could be new.' He said, 'The world isn't ready for Ralph Lauren.' I never forgot that because... I thought that was a compliment.
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It's easy to forget the ever-plodding eBay with all the noise made by the more lithe and lively Web 2.0 companies.
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I've completely fallen in love with the U.K., and I'd love to spend a couple of months a year there.
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Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat's ear.
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It's important for people to understand where things come or what they represent.
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When I grew up, I never – I wasn't allowed to go out. I missed my prom because I went to an AAU tournament and all that stuff. For me, it was basketball, basketball, basketball.
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The list of problems that we all experience may be endless, but I honestly cannot abide by the rule that, 'He who yells louder is heard.'
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I was born and raised in Ohio. During my childhood, I spent most of my time drawing and reading fairy tales and myths.
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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
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For all the power of video and film, I am not giving up my pen. I am just much more likely to try to link essays to webcasts or videos. The best way for these two media to move forward, to inform and make change, is in tandem; together they are more than the sum of their parts.
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Life is too short, time is too precious, and the stakes are too high to dwell on what might have been. We have to work together for what still can be.
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You can be in love and raise a family wonderfully by not being married, but actually, marriage does give us a strength, because it's quite hard to get out of, and so it makes us fight more to keep it together. If divorce becomes dead easy - which it sort of has - then we don't have that backup. Because, for everybody, relationships are hard.
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The two systems slave and free-labor are incompatible. They have never permanently existed together in one country, and they never can.
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From this point forth, we shall be leaving the firm foundation of fact and journeying together through the murky marshes of memory into thickets of wildest guesswork.
