Joanne Rowling Quotes
Just because you’re allowed to use magic now you don’t have to whip your wands out for every tiny little thing!
Quotes to Explore
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As an actress, I think it's important to look back and realize that we aren't always quite as original as we think we are. There's this grand, textured history for us over the last 100 years of incredible writers, directors, and performers.
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I myself was completely torn by the decision to start Teach For America. There was a voice in my head telling me not to do it - to take a more normal path. I did have one thing going for me, which was that I had been rejected from all the other jobs I'd applied to.
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One of the signs of a bad coworker is a pattern of persistent undermining - intentionally hindering a colleague's success, reputation, or relationships.
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I'm constantly coming up with new strategies for getting to the mental place where writing is so joyous and playful that I almost can't help putting the words down.
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I used to be teased for the way I wore my hair at school. I used to do things like wear a different-colored sock on each leg.
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A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.
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I kind of always struggled writing in Malay, because Malay is such a beautiful language. And it gets really hard, you know, if you want to make it into a song. You have to make it sound beautiful, use the right words.
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I hate to sound sort of diffident about it but it strikes me that a lot of people on the right have got active lives and are doing other things.
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The rarity is the sudden epiphany or single turning point showing you with dramatic clarity that your marriage is over, although that does happen. Most relationships hover on a precipice for years before one party or the other finally decides it is time to jump, and coming to the decision isn't easy.
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The Disney deal for us, we are very excited to be their Pay 1 partner, where we are a big licensing partner of Disney all over the world in all different windows.
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I think it is quite untrue that it is standard journalistic practice to name the interviewer when quoting from an interview.
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The people have nothing to fear of me; people have never feared me.
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I never try to be the poster child for the perfect mother/wife... You prioritize, you do the best you can possibly do, and you don't beat yourself up.
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Food still isn't my thing, but I've learned to respect its power and significance.
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Addiction is a hugely complex and destructive disease, and its impact can be simply devastating. All too often, lives and families can be shattered by it.
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It's kind of bittersweet. The human spirit is not measured by the size of the act, but by the size of the heart.
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Acting is a really strange thing to do; it's very strange.
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If I test the car for a year I can be quite competitive the next season.
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To understand the universe in the state that it began in, the so-called Big Bang, we need laws of physics that work better than our current set of rules and procedures, which break down when we try to push them back to the beginning.
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Being a ballerina can be a very unnatural life, especially after you've had children.
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One possible future for WikiLeaks is to morph into a gigantic media intermediary - perhaps, even something of a clearing house for investigative reporting - where even low-level leaks would be matched with the appropriate journalists to pursue and report on them and, perhaps, even with appropriate NGOs to advocate on their causes.
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Once you're imagining being the main character, and you're having the conversations and actually being there, the magic in fiction writing takes over.
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Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.
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Just because you’re allowed to use magic now you don’t have to whip your wands out for every tiny little thing!
