Joanne Rowling Quotes
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The whole world has American dreams. This country has people from all parts of the world. We have Irish who live here, we have Brazilians.
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We are all souls, and what I have learnt so far is that while God is male, the souls created by Him are female, so I always had women as my theme, as they are dedicated to Him.
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I'm not strict on my calorie count; I just pay attention to my body.
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Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions.
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After having children, life becomes about living beyond yourself; about being bigger and better.
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When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't have had much to say. As recently as the mid-1980s, it didn't seem to be a big deal.
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A guy will promise you the world and give you nothin', and that's the blues.
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I like to have fun, but I don't think of myself as being funny. But I'm a big jokester, so I make fun of myself a lot!
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I never met a stripe I didn't like.
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Film and television are so piecemeal. You do one scene, and then you put it to bed, and then you do a scene that comes before. In a play, you have to go from beginning to end every night, and that's harder, but also more fulfilling in a way.
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It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. Therefore I keep reaching for instruments I don't particularly know how to play, and then I become excited.
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You've got to keep your eye on the prize and do what you love to do.
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Your initial idea may or may not work, but you have to remember that a failed idea is nothing but a stepping stone to a bigger success.
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I made a commitment... both to myself and to some supporters to carefully consider a run for the Liberal leadership for the Liberal Party of Canada.
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The United Nations is our one great hope for a peaceful and free world.
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It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
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I got a cold feeling toward religion in general. I don't think God would want to separate families.
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Sometimes I still go round the house making weird noises and stuff, so in that aspect, I haven't grown up!
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There's something really cool about TV. TV, you get the luxury of having the same people around. It is such a blessing when you get a TV job. You really have a chance to get to make, like, work friends. I think TV is one of the few mediums where I've had the opportunity to get to know my crew members.
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Life is but a river. It has no beginning, no middle, no end. All we are, all we are worth, is what we do while we float upon it — how we treat our fellow man.
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Rousseau … asked himself how he might make as much as possible of the interval that remained; and he was not biassed by anything in his previous life when he decided that it must be by intellectual excitement.
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Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.
