Joanne Rowling Quotes
Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.
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In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
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If you just kind of live a regular life and make good 'Hollywood' money, you have a certain freedom.
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I've always dreamed of having an album. The problem is that it's just very difficult to make an album nowadays because through technology, music shifts so fast, especially electronic music. Once you make five songs, the first one you did is already old and you wished you would have put it out right away. So that's kind of the difficult part.
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I feel like obviously the standard for what TV looks like changes all the time.
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We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.
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I've heard people say South Africans are arrogant, that they act no differently from their colonial masters. That needs to change. It's in your business interest as an entrepreneur to form meaningful partnerships. That's how you do well for your shareholders.
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There's not a fortune to be made doing voiceover work unless you're one of the main voices on The Simpsons. See, there's The Simpsons, and then there's everything else.
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When you are 16 there is no fear whatsoever. As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.
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I get why certain actors want to stay in the closet.
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If I were to make an uneducated guess about L.A.'s relationship with folk and psychedelia, I would say it must be the weather.
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During my career several people have tried to push me out the door... Nobody has succeeded yet.
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I met a number of young, striving, enterprising people in cities like Aligarh and Hubli. But the mental landscape of these towns is out of sync with their reality. Many of these towns are hellholes.
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I'm not that interested in people.
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I think when the bottom started to drop out, we didn't recognize it.
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Do the bishops seriously imagine that legalising gay marriage will result in thousands of parties to heterosexual marriages suddenly deciding to get divorced so they can marry a person of the same sex?
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What bothered me most about chick lit, frankly, was how the term was used to dismiss a huge chunk of the bookstore as silly, girlish prattle.
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It would be nice to say the rich people, the fancy people, all behaved like bastards and the poor slobs all came through like heroes. But as a matter of fact, sometimes the poor slobs behave like slobs and the great, noble, privileged characters come off very well, indeed.
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The world is shrinking together; it is finding itself neighbor to itself in strange, almost magic degree.
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If the faults of men in orders are only to be judged among themselves, they are all in some sort parties; for, since they say the honour of their order is concerned in every member of it, how can we be sure that they will be impartial judges?
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TV is not a baby sitter.
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You can't expect to make no effort. You still have to make the effort and be kind and understanding.
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I left 'Containment' for the first time understanding the exhaustion some people have after they've done a really demanding emotional and physical project. I wanted a break, to be honest with you, and I needed to recover.
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A state is not the same thing as a society, although the Greeks and Romans thought it was. A state is an organization of power on a territorial basis.
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Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.
