Joanne Rowling Quotes
Somewhere out in the darkness, a phoenix was singing in a way Harry had never heard before: a stricken lament of terrible beauty. And Harry felt, as he had felt about phoenix song before, that the music was inside him, not without: It was his own grief turned magically to song.
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I listen to Helmet - and I love Helmet, they're a great band - but every song sounds the same.
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I am in love with myself, with my friends, with my family, with kids, with life and my movies.
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Irish novelist John Banville has a creepy, introverted imagination.
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If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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You know, the Brits had a way of - running an empire. And I don't think America is comfortable with an empire.
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I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.
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We show our faces to demand human rights for everyone, everywhere.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be.
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In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
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I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.
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I myself feel that I'm a well-rounded player and got a lot better defensively and without the puck as time has gone on.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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I don't know if I have a brand. I just see myself as an athlete and a competitor, someone who just works really hard at trying to get better at golf. I guess I'm kind of the feel-good story who's seen every level of professional golf.
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'The Last Airbender' is genetically engineered for me. I love martial arts. I study it. The movie's based on a lot of Buddhist and Hindu philosophy. I was raised Hindu.
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New York was at the forefront of rap, so because of all the great people who have gone before me, being a rapper from Queens, I have to live up to those standards. I'm basically just a regular guy who says what he feels and likes to joke. I like long walks on the beach... and I love rap.
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Living in a cultural milieu where the foreign writers most widely available and admired were Russian, I came very late to postwar American writers, and I had great trouble with the canonically exalted white male writers I tried first.
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This industry is 90 percent business, 10 percent talent.
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We can look out on an alien landscape that no one has seen before and find it beautiful.
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The supreme need of the world is peace and good will among men. It must be peace founded upon justice and fairness, the righting of past wrong, and the securing of the future as far as possible against the evils of the past.
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Throughout Barack Obama's career, he promised to limit the state secrets doctrine which the Bush-Cheney administration had abused enormously.
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Somewhere out in the darkness, a phoenix was singing in a way Harry had never heard before: a stricken lament of terrible beauty. And Harry felt, as he had felt about phoenix song before, that the music was inside him, not without: It was his own grief turned magically to song.
