Joanne Rowling Quotes
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I was perhaps about 10 years old when a local farmer rang us up to say he had found a young badger and would we take it in. So we did; it was a female called Bessy and she lived in the boiler room. She was extremely intelligent, had a very low opinion of cats but loved the dogs. She was pretty well trained; she went in the car.
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You take the best of our tradition as a start, and I'll take the best of Christianity ... From there we can build.
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The secret of my success with Geraldine is that she's not a putdown of women. She's smart, she's trustful, she's loyal, she's sassy.
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When I was a teenager, I was an umpire for a competitive league for 8- to 9-year-olds. I was really bad at it because I didn't know all the rules, and all these kids were better athletes than me. I made a bad call, and this dad snapped on me. Then he dumped his trash from his cooler, and I had to kick him out of the stands.
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But you know, I always said that no one else on my block was on the radio, and it was fun.
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Obviously, marriage is not a synonym for morality. But stable marriages and families do encourage moral behavior.
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I think to a certain extent, Clinton may have expected as the senior president that Obama would've reached out to him and asked for his council; he's done that very little. So, I think the relationship has not been good over the years.
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'Punk' doesn't mean Mohawks and safety pins. It's about not conforming.
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The primary way that we know about what lives in the ocean is we go out and drag nets behind ships. And I defy you to name any other branch of science that still depends on hundreds-of-year-old technology. The other primary way is we go down with submersibles and remote- operated vehicles. I've made hundreds of dives in submersibles.
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All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
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For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.
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There's a fine line between a stream of consciousness and a babbling brook to nowhere.
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I used to have the very standard worldview. I can easily identify with people who see computers getting faster and smarter, and technology getting more and more beneficial, without seeing the other side.
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It might be, it could be... it is! A home run!
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It was my mother who got me involved in gymnastics, sending me to classes when I was six just to stop me doing back flips on the couch and destroying the furniture.
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In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here.
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Quality attracts quality. People want to be on a good show.
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Everyone has their opinion, and if no one criticizes, how will I improve my work?
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I think feminism's a bit misinterpreted. It was about casting off all gender roles. There's nothing wrong with a man holding a door open for a girl. But we sort of threw away all the rules, so everybody's confused. And dating becomes a sloppy, uncomfortable, unpleasant thing.
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When people put that sort of pressure on you, you're worried that people won't want to receive you.
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I kinda wanted to play receiver more.
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Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room.
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I tend to not watch things that are current. And then if everybody swears it's amazing then I'll like watch the whole series in a weekend.
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Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
