Joanne Rowling Quotes
I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.
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I am not content to entrust our free-speech rights to the good graces and whims of Congress and hope that politicians don't abuse their power.
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The trouble with making music as a job is that I have no outside interests. All I can do to wind down is go to sleep.
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I'm such a happy, easygoing person.
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I'm such a foodie, and I actually think I would rather lose my hearing than my taste.
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I dislike society because conversation exhausts my brain more than silent thought - again, I cannot hold my water long enough for a prolonged conversation.
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The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
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Gangsta to us didn't have anything to do with Al Capone and stuff like that. It's just about living your life the way you want to live it. And you're not going to let nothing stop you.
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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
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I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not.
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You wear fur, it's like you trying to be something you not. You get fur, you can spend the same money on like, 30 jackets.
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Harold Lloyd was not a comedian. But he was the finest actor to play a comedian that I ever saw.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I guess I'm in a state of becoming. Even though I've had a full career and I've been around a long time, it's like dinosaurs are coming back. It's all new. I'm having to be on my own and seeing how exciting life can be now.
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I knew Hunter Thompson since the '70s, and I loved him, but he would wear me out as I got older.
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I don't ever feel like the cool kid at the party, ever. It's like, 'Smile and be nice to everybody, because you were not invited to be here.'
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Rice and vermicelli is a common combination in Arab and Turkish cooking - it has a lighter texture than rice on its own.
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I spent 12 years of my life, the last six years training six to eight hours a day, every day of my life. At the time, when I was 20 to 26, I could do things like that, and you're not going to notice it.
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The glorification of sisters, mothers as the selfless Indian women who will do 'agni pariksha' and the one who sees her own betterment only in the betterment of their husbands and fathers, that has to stop. It's very regressive.
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I haven't read hardly any Westerns, to tell you the truth.
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I'm not saying I look cool, but every single time I go onstage, it is a fail if I don't feel like I'm going to pass out at least twice.
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I thought Obama ran the best campaign I have ever known - disciplined, well organised, very, very good. I was very impressed.
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I have a weak stomach. My wife is a doctor, so she finds it funny that I actually pass out when I get my blood drawn. I physically can't stand gore on screen. I can't stand blood and guts. Not for any puritanical/moral high-ground reason. I just don't want to black out.
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Leni Riefenstahl was the one person Goebbels had no control over in the filmmaking community of Nazi Germany, and they despised each other. But because she was Hitler's favorite, she could do what she wanted. She was the only filmmaker that did not have to cow down to Joseph Goebbels.
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I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.
