Joanne Rowling Quotes
For instance, this new idea that You-Know-Who can kill with a single glance from his eyes. That’s a basilisk, listeners. One simple test: Check whether the thing that’s glaring at you has got legs. If it has, it’s safe to look into its eyes, although if it really is You-Know-Who, that’s still likely to be the last thing you ever do.
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I don't like the blame game, though.
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This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.
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I can't speak for other people, but for me, I feel like gone are the days that you need to come out of a closet. I never felt like I was in a closet. I never did. I always felt comfortable with who I am and the decisions I made.
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I love working with people and having them bring something to the table that I couldn't. I think one of my favourite artists to work with has been Kucka. She's Australian, too, and it's great working with her because we kind of have a very similar take on music, and we like a lot of the same stuff. We're not super-precious about ideas.
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Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not.
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I love and adore being a mother. It's the greatest gift I've ever been given.
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Art lies by its own artifice.
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I started off dancing and playing sports, and I joined the drama stuff, the theatre stuff in middle school because my friends were involved, and it was kind of the cool thing to do.
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Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take better care of themselves, but a reminder is always good for everyone.
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All the skills of housewifery are the ones I'm using as a producer.
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I hate how late we have our Olympic Trials, always have.
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The big difference between the radio show and the TV work is that I don't have to work by committee on the radio show. I'm the DJ; I can play what I want and suffer or get praised by that. With a TV show, it's much more of a collaboration, and the song that I might think is perfect may get shot down and vice versa.
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My father did irrigation jobs, and I would sometimes accompany him, and that gave me a taste of what was going on in the innards of India.
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I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
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My childhood was appalling.
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Some of those stories in local newspapers are just as dull and boring as the stories that I get from on-line services, which are basically sort of straight news.
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There are always two forces warring against each other within us.
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Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.
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There's girls that grew up like me and even worse, and they need to know that there is someone out there that can give them hope with my music. It's about inspiring people and helping people.
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I've got to restructure all my personal life now in order to accommodate public service, which is fine.
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Any professional league that goes on strike right now - that's just suicide.
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Patience, persistence, and power to do are only acquired by work.
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If to describe a misery were as easy to live through it!
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For instance, this new idea that You-Know-Who can kill with a single glance from his eyes. That’s a basilisk, listeners. One simple test: Check whether the thing that’s glaring at you has got legs. If it has, it’s safe to look into its eyes, although if it really is You-Know-Who, that’s still likely to be the last thing you ever do.
