Joanne Rowling Quotes

If she could have done one thing to make absolutely sure that every single person in this school will read your interview, it was banning it!

Joanne Rowling

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• There was Pauline de Rothschild, who I thought was very fabulous, and Millicent Rogers, the Standard Oil heiress, very chic, very clever, very original. I admired both those women very much. And I had a great example with my mother, who was extremely chic.

  

  Iris Apfel
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  • Women
  • Mother

• By the time I was 29 I'd spent eight years with someone else's group of friends. I had no idea what it was like to be a woman with mates of her own to socialize with.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Woman

• Of course, Minneapolis, we think, 'Oh well, it's cold there, lethally cold.' But the reality is you adapt to weather... Humans are consummately adaptable creatures.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Reality
  • Cold
  • Weather

• We are in a culture where it's so easy to just turn things off that you don't like. And I think that doesn't make you a well-rounded person or artist. You have to be able to take the good with the bad and have opinions on things!

  

  Mandy Moore
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  • Culture

• 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.

  

  Olivia Munn
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  • Running

• Remember before nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I was total skinny, I was small, very strong, they may be don't like to see a gymnastics like that. I don't know but, gymnastics, might. Nineteen seventy two supposed to be change somewhere.

  

  Olga Korbut
  • May
  • Remember
  • Strong

• You want maybe to be that guy or one of the few guys who can help develop the game in the United States.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Help
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• I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.

  

  Faith Ford
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  • Comedy
  • Things

• The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.

  

  Sally Mann
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• Credit you give yourself is not worth having.

  

  Irving Thalberg
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• The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

  

  Quentin Crisp
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• I have always been small, so defenders have always been taller and tougher than me. So that's difficult for me; they foul me sometimes, but there you are - that's what the rules of the game are for.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Game
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• For me, I am left leaning when it comes to health and education, on the right when it comes to defense. So I don't know where I come on the political spectrum. And I think this the challenge that a lot of Jordanians have to deal with.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Political
  • Education
  • Health

• There's nothing I like more than picking fresh vegetables then putting them in the dinner you make that night.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • Night
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• I don't really like to talk about other people. I think people who have things going on in their lives, I think they have enough to deal with, they don't need, you know, Abigail Breslin weighing in on their lives.

  

  Abigail Breslin
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  • Think
  • Know

• I always had a very strong sense of independence. I really liked being able to buy my Alanis Morissette 'Jagged Little Pill' album. I wore that as a badge of honor. I love not having to rely on anyone.

  

  Felicity Jones
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  • Honor
  • Sense

• When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Words
  • Always
  • Talk

• I saw 'The Artist.' It's really beautiful and it's all done to the letter with all the silent film techniques. The costumes were amazing and the dog is so good.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Good
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  • Beautiful

• In the end, religion teaches us to value truth, justice and freedom.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Truth
  • Freedom
  • Value

• I used to watch those rock videos where they would chainsaw the piano. And I thought, 'That's what I want to do.' I thought classical music was corny.

  

  Jason Moran
  • Music
  • Rock

• I'm in the lucky position that I can help a huge amount of people. It's a great privilege and freedom to have.

  

  John Caudwell
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• My mom was concerned that us four little black girls have a really well-balanced life. She wanted us to be around people like us, but we also went to private school and traveled all the time. Now I fit in most places because I've been most places.

  

  Kelis Rogers
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  • Life
  • Time

• The left and right sides of the brain also process the imprints of the past in dramatically different ways.2 The left brain remembers facts, statistics, and the vocabulary of events. We call on it to explain our experiences and put them in order. The right brain stores memories of sound, touch, smell, and the emotions they evoke. It reacts automatically to voices, facial features, and gestures and places experienced in the past.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Brain
  • Emotions
  • Experiences

• If she could have done one thing to make absolutely sure that every single person in this school will read your interview, it was banning it!

  

  Joanne Rowling
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