Joanne Rowling Quotes
I’m very busy with schoolwork, of course." "How can she be?" said Ron in horror. "We’re on vacation!
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When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't have had much to say. As recently as the mid-1980s, it didn't seem to be a big deal.
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The hypothesis that economic organization is the resultant of a series of historic accidents is intructive in that many organizational innovations appear to be the result of trial and error.
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Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.
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For years, Judaism has been a sort of product put on the religious shelf, and on holidays, we would take it off the shelf and let seculars play with it for a bit. Now, Judaism is going back to being something that more closely touches everyone.
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One of the questions writers bump up against in their work, whether they know it or not, is about lying. Because fiction is a form of deceit, and one's abilities are measured by how convincingly one can persuade readers that these events really happened.
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The best of life is to embark on an adventure with a woman interested in having an adventure with you.
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I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.
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I love to get home and hang out with my family. My brothers and I love spending time at the beach. I enjoy doing all kinds of surf sports and keeping healthy.
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I think we should balance the federal budget tomorrow. I'm optimistic. I think Americans are optimistic. We went to the moon; we can balance the federal budget.
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I have a ship's bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a pirate.
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I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.
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The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.
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If women's rights are a problem for some modern Muslim men, it is neither because of the Quran nor the Prophet, nor the Islamic tradition, but simply because those rights conflict with the interests of a male elite.
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To all my people back in Nashville who have been there from the start, you put your faith in me. You were there for the long haul.
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I myself have already spent a third of my life in Germany, first in Cologne and then, since 1994, in Berlin.
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Birth was the death of him.
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I have no business being a journalist. I'm the least, I'm the least - I'm the most trusting, I absolutely make a habit of believing anything that anybody tells me about themselves. I've never had any reason in the world to think that anyone has wanted to harm me, or lie to me. I believe whatever is being sold, most of the time.
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My being bought as a politically outspoken artist is a more potent advertising tool for Apple than a 100 more explicit ads.
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The necessity for leaders to possess optimism and ego serves to answer the age-old question: Are leaders born or are they made? They are born. A leader is born with an optimistic disposition or she is not. If she is not, then no amount of 'optimism training' is going to make her view the world in an overwhelmingly positive, opportunistic light.
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If you hate what you're seeing, you call it sex and violence. If you like it, you call it 'romance and adventure.'
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I’m very busy with schoolwork, of course." "How can she be?" said Ron in horror. "We’re on vacation!
