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Either war is obsolete, or men are.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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Magic is something that happens that appears to be impossible. What I call 'illusion magic' uses laws of science and nature that are already known. Real magic uses laws that haven't yet been discovered.
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When I'm fully fit, I have power and pace; then I feel good on the pitch.
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Capitalism is a great idea in theory, but in practice it just doesn't work.
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When she was 16, my grandmother, Hannie Reed, drove a wagon in the Oklahoma land rush.
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I used to say that I wanted to make great art with people I love. Now I have an addendum to that goal: to get things on the air.
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I’m very busy with schoolwork, of course." "How can she be?" said Ron in horror. "We’re on vacation!
