Joanne Rowling Quotes
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I know when it's getting close to game time, I create a different playlist for each and every game. Before the game, to game time, to warm-ups, going to the stadium, I have a different playlist that puts me in a different mode.
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I am very lucky to be surrounded and guided by an incredible support team comprised of my family and agents.
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A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.
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You know, it's hard sometimes to just detach yourself from what you're doing.
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The future is much like the present, only longer.
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So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
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We have to stop rewarding bad behavior.
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Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.
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I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
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It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not.
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My background is that of a competitive athlete and a fighter, and I'm bringing something totally different to 'The Biggest Loser' that wasn't there before.
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Young audience, in the age group of 16-33 years, constitutes the main viewership of Bollywood films.
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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.
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I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.
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I believe in luck. My luck's real streaky.
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I had this dream that I was going to come to New York and be a writer.
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Imagination creates some big monsters.
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It was clear that the special interest groups in California really wanted the Chinese to be shut out of the country, because that was where the racial tension was the greatest.
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There are some men whom a staggering emotional shock, so far from making them mental invalids for life, seems, on the other hand, to awaken, to galvanize, to arouse into an almost incredible activity of soul.
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What I get a bit angry about is the image of women.
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I'm confident that I'm as intelligent as many people, but I know that I'm not as intelligent as some. So in the presence of hyperintelligent people, I'm a shrinking violet because I don't want to look like a fool. I know a little about a lot and a lot about a little.
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We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.
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I think you're working and learning until you die.
