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 grew up in the church.
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I don't try to lose weight. I don't try to do nothing. I just try to put in my work, feel better, the things that I can do in the field to be better are better, so that's what I do.
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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
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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.
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New synthetic substances - steel, concrete, glass - are actively superseding the traditional raw materials of construction.
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Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
