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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I love Channing Tatum!
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The past is a place you can learn from, not a place you want to live.
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Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.
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I never wanted there to be any moment in my movies when something would happen and the audience would cheer, like sometimes that happens in certain types of horror movies. I was never a fan of that, I wasn't looking for 'inventive' kills and I even hate that word because it's like, if you have these characters screaming or crying in pain I don't think anyone should be jumping out of their seat cheering. It should be horrible and you should feel sick watching it because that's what it is, sick.
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Spirit is matter seen in a stronger light. What else did Malebranche mean when he spoke of "seeing all things in God"? Existence is a mystery because the light of it is inexhaustible.
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Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.
