Joanne Rowling Quotes

I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.

Joanne Rowling

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• The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done. I try to make sure that I don't repeat my music.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Good
  • Work
  • Music

• I like the detail work of telling a story in small pieces, as is done in movie-making, and also the long leap of faith needed to see a theatre performance through each night. Both require focus and self-discipline.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Work
  • Long
  • Done

• Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Stop
  • Best
  • Always

• Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Time
  • Perfect
  • Best

• I had an ethnic preference, if you will, for the warm weather, coming from Chennai. So I finally said, 'Look, can I move to California?' because every time I come here, it would be in the 70s or 80s, and there would be beautiful blue sky and warm.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • Time
  • Beautiful
  • Sky

• Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Nature
  • Body
  • Gym

• When I had my television show, 'Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,' it was my high hope to convert people to country music. It is wonderful and contagious!

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Books
  • Before
  • Left

• Nothing says, 'I pay attention to detail!' like footwear flattery from a boy.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Attention
  • Boy
  • Flattery

• Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.

  

  Ed Belfour
  • Sometimes
  • Competitive

• I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Real
  • Want
  • Funny

• If you've got a plot the size of a car or a tiny yard in Italy, you're going to be growing tomatoes and basil and celery and carrots, and everybody is still connected to the land.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • Growing
  • Car
  • Size

• In a city, it's very hard to do a restaurant, an avant-garde-cuisine restaurant, where each year you need to change the whole menu.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Change
  • City
  • Restaurant

• A man has a birthright to be tired and retired. I am retired completely.

  

  Rajneesh
  • Man
  • Tired
  • Retired

• When James Bond gets old, you get rid of him and bring a new James Bond in.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Old
  • Him
  • Bond

• Education helps you to be a well-rounded person, period. It teaches you how to take in information and data, process it, and use it for life building. Education was key in my family. You were going to college.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Life
  • Family
  • Education

• I'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • Life
  • Children
  • Family

• I'm an artist, and I'm a bit weird, and I'm probably a bit eccentric.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Artist
  • Weird
  • Bit

• Unlike Milan, Italy's banking capital, or Rome, its religious center, Florence was the place where the rich went to buy goods that would showcase how wealthy they were.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Religious
  • Place
  • Rich

• Moviemaking is just really neat, and I really like doing that. I'd like to get into it more, but in terms of my role in all of this and in terms of the gift that God has given me, I had to come to the conclusion that my strength is as a storyteller, creating the story.

  

  Frank Peretti
  • God

• Nowadays, if a studio assumes that his film is bad, there is always an executive that gets more nervous than usual and thinks that if they change the music, the film will become a masterpiece.

  

  Maurice Jarre
  • Music
  • Bad

• I can tell you categorically that we at 60 Minutes did not pay Michael Jackson one cent.

  

  Don Hewitt

• I don't have a classical-music mentality. I haven't been taught that way, and it doesn't fit my character, either.

  

  Agnes Obel
  • Music
  • Character

• I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Book
  • Science
  • Chance