Joanne Rowling Quotes
Now, you two – this year, you behave yourselves. If I get one more owl telling me you've – you've blown up a toilet or –" "Blown up a toilet? We've never blown up a toilet." "Great idea though, thanks, Mum.
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I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.
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I got fired for giving coffee away. It was just my regulars. I'd say, 'Don't worry about it,' and they'd put down a dollar tip. Technically, I was stealing. Ethically, I was boosting morale!
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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I've dealt with a lot of couples over the years, and most cite the battle for closet and bathroom space as one of the most frequent causes of marital discord.
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I am a very selfish person.
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The creative scientific process is - It's kind of - It's a windy road that has a trajectory, but it's a slow trajectory.
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I find it really hard to relate to the Bond women or Angelina Jolie in 'Salt.' And of course it's informed by my experiences and the people I've met along the way and the places I've been.
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I don't look like a white woman. I look Somali.
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I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.
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Some of the most amazing people I've met in life are cops.
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The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
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A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.
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I do a lot of TV stuff, but I also turn a lot down - it's got to be an adventure.
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I had a peace all day. I knew it was a tough golf course. I probably prayed more the last three holes than I ever did in my life.
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I think Hispanic community - the values that resonate in our community are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family and patriotism. Do you know the rate of military enlistment among Hispanics is higher than any demographic in this country? And they are also hard work and responsibility.
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I'm a huge Wong Kar-Wai fan.
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Whence it is somewhat strange that any men from so mean and silly a practice should expect commendation, or that any should afford regard thereto; the which it is so far from meriting, that indeed contempt and abhorrence are due to it.
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The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
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It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop his or her full potential. This is why we take precious time out of our lives and give it to politics.
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If you can write DNA, you're no longer limited to 'what is' but to what you could make.
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So actually we didn't have any contacts with UFO organizations. It was all strictly government.
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Age only matters when one is aging. Now that I have arrived at a great age, I might as well be twenty.
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Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
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Now, you two – this year, you behave yourselves. If I get one more owl telling me you've – you've blown up a toilet or –" "Blown up a toilet? We've never blown up a toilet." "Great idea though, thanks, Mum.
