Joanne Rowling Quotes
Our Headmaster is taking a short break," said Professor McGonagall, pointing at the Snape-shaped hole in the window.
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I couldn't speak any English when I first left Russia, and Intimissimi taught me everything. The team was like a family to me - they showed me how to model and how to stay in shape. They really believed in me.
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It's huge in the U.K., if someone's doing well, to put them down. That's what we do all the time. It's kind of like a cultural thing.
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Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.
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When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.
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The Tea Party has very close affinities with independent third-party movements like the George Wallace movement. The Tea Party is still inchoate, still trying to figure out what it's going to become.
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Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart.
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I'm built for whichever scheme they put me in.
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I suggest that ten thousand Negroes march on Washington, D.C., the capital of the Nation, with the slogan, 'We loyal Negro American citizens demand the right to work and fight for our country.'
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The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes - or it prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two - is gone.
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When I heard Elvis Presley, then I knew I had to do music. Music is my god, and is the only love that has never left me. It has always been there and is my best friend.
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The sphinx will always have to be looked after.
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I have a harder time finding somebody. The problem is we were growing professionally during the years most people were concentrating on being a person.
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Never count on making a good sale. Have the purchase price be so attractive that even a mediocre sale gives good results.
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Aretha Franklin was tough. She turned out to be good, but she was, you know, she was - she's a very - she's a very wonderful, but in some ways, shy woman. You don't think about that when you see how she emotes and performs.
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Film composing is a splendid discipline, and I recommend a course of it to all composition teachers whose pupils are apt to be dawdling in their ideas, or whose every bar is sacred and must not be cut or altered.
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And if one is to express the great inevitable defeat that awaits us all, it must be done within the strict confines of dignity and beauty.
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White, adj. and n. Black.
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Great wits jump.
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I just thank my father and mother, my lucky stars, that I had the advantage of an education in the humanities.
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To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit.
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I've learned from experience you just never know what happens in life.
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I'm a business guy. I'm not a politician.
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When I was a little kid we moved to Tulsa, then to St. Louis and, by the time I was in kindergarten, we lived in Springfield, Missouri. There I basically grew up.
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Our Headmaster is taking a short break," said Professor McGonagall, pointing at the Snape-shaped hole in the window.
