Joanne Rowling Quotes
The poor are discussed as this homogeneous mash, like porridge. The idea that they might be individuals, and be where they are for very different, diverse reasons, again seems to escape some people.
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You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.
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A lot of panel programmes rely on men topping each other, or sparring with each other, which is not generally a very female thing.
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I keep waiting for a paradigm shift to happen that will let network and studio execs see that sci-fi is the same as any other genre in terms of how you approach it - logically, character-based, with challenging ideas and forward thinking - but I worry that it might never happen in my lifetime.
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He said, 'From then on, I realized that I was not just abandoned. I was chosen. I was special.' And I think that's the key to understanding Steve Jobs.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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I want someone who will love me for the person I am and not because of my status. It has to be someone who understands the pressure of playing for India. It will be very difficult to be with a person who has her own career because someone has to make sacrifices for the family and house.
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I try to do two moot courts for every Supreme Court case (and one to two for courts of appeals), and to ensure I am being mooted by people who know the Supreme Court well and are coming to the case fresh.
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If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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Public humiliation comes to us all, and never so surely as when we're just a little bit pleased with ourselves and feel, just for once, that everything is going our way.
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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I feel there's enough seriousness in the world without seeing it in the theatre.
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As more ad spending shifts online, the ability to have expertise and to innovate quickly will become critical.
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I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.
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Nothing says, 'I pay attention to detail!' like footwear flattery from a boy.
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In general, while Trump has been a master of Twitter, he has shown an aversion to, and ignorance of, technology itself.
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Our career had a sort of funny shape.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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The last thing I want is for people to say that the music is nice. It's not nice. It sounds good, but it's got grit, and it's got edge. It never veers into sweet.
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[London] is sentimental and tolerant. The attitude to foreigners is like the attitude to dogs: Dogs are neither human nor British, but so long as you keep them under control, give them their exercise, feed them, pat them, you will find their wild emotions are amusing, and their characters interesting.
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If you don't allow freedom, then you can't have freedom.
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Most people know nobody in the military.
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The one thing that always bothered me when I played in the NBA was I really got irritated when they put a white guy on me.
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The poor are discussed as this homogeneous mash, like porridge. The idea that they might be individuals, and be where they are for very different, diverse reasons, again seems to escape some people.
