Joanne Rowling Quotes
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'Heroes' really changed the game for me in a way that nothing before it had.
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I live in Derry, a little town in Ireland, and I don't have the background of Hollywood or Broadway.
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I look at it this way. I'm not putting age limits on what I can do. As long as I can do the job to help the team win and feel like I'm playing at a high level, which I feel I can do for a long while, I'm going to play no matter what my age is.
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I still have a fear of theater. I don't know if I will manage that. I used to do it. I developed a bit of a phobia. It's not a real phobia. I can go in and watch.
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Second place is just the first place loser.
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I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.
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I've struggled with depression before. For me, music was always a very positive way to will myself out of that situation.
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Here at home, President Obama early on made the connection between growth and economic opportunity for women. In the depths of our crisis in 2009, one of the first laws the president signed was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. He established an Equal Pay Task Force led by Valerie Jarrett to help women get paid what they earn.
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When you look at someone good like J.J. Abrams who gives you the spectacle and great action set pieces but also gives you character and great story and plotting and narrative, I think it's my job - and my intention - to do both.
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The artist never really has any control over the impact of his work. If he starts thinking about the impact of his work, then he becomes a lesser artist.
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I feel like obviously the standard for what TV looks like changes all the time.
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I could imagine actually being a scientist or a detective, but not a detective who puts his hands into gory, bloody things. But more like someone who figures things out. I like to figure things out.
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Playing Willie Loomis was really fun for me because it was something nice and different to embody. It was neat playing this drunken servant who was hypnotized by Johnny Depp.
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I actually don't think there is any difference between French and American cuisine. French cuisine was always about discipline, about ingredient, about creativity, but also about simple. I see America as very similar in these rights.
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I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.
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For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East.
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The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
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All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
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I like Disney Channel a lot, and I also like to watch 'Full House.'
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I was a late bloomer. I was 38 when my first book was out and 43 when my first crime novel was out. I had a story that could only be told as a crime story. I think the genre is good; it deals with the fundamental questions of life and death. The problem is there are too many bad crime stories.
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Sometimes love can be an ugly thing.
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In North America, more than half of all children travel to school by bus. We need a similar programme in London.
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You can't plan to reach another person on a deep level, it just happens. So those are the moments that I think I really live for.
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Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most.
