Joanne Rowling Quotes
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Every audition I get, I agonise over and I put everything I can into it.
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A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.
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I often tell people when you make a mistake, you not only hurt yourself, but you hurt the ones that love you.
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You don't have to be dowdy to be a Christian.
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The nightmare of a film career, or at least the challenge of one, is that you're rarely going to get the opportunity to explore character because once people see you in one thing, you know, they want to see that again.
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I really think that it's disgusting that Paris is the only place where it is illegal for paps to follow you around. It actually took someone losing their life - Diana, an inspirational woman - and then it changed, but they still won't change it in London! It's horrible!
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History is laden with belligerent leaders using humanitarian rhetoric to mask geopolitical aims. History also shows how often ill-informed moralism has led to foreign entanglements that do more harm than good.
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Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
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The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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It's interesting: in the late '80s, there was this really random mix of new wave, industrial, and these early house records. And a lot of it was coming out of Chicago because of Wax Trax! So I always visited Wax Trax Records.
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I don't think limits.
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Physical roles give me a chance to learn something new.
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Public radio is alive and kicking, it always has been.
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I'm kind of a pop culture stew, you know.
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Life at best is bittersweet.
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I'm floored that the House leadership would turn its back on job creation for Mississippians.
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I won't quit until I get run over by a truck, a producer or a critic.
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I believe a democracy needs men and women of conviction in its positions of leadership in order for us to succeed. That's the subject of 'A Perfect Candidate,' a film I made 20 years ago about Oliver North and Charles Robb.
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Being on the ground in Mongolia and traveling with the horse culture and sleeping in yurts, I was able to pick up a lot of detail. But I brought in advisors to work with our horse master to make sure the fighting strategies both on the Chinese and Mongolian sides were very accurate.
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The writer has the advantage of a medium that can be contemplated many times over on the pages of a book or a magazine. The words lie on the page and the writer has an extended opportunity to imprint on his reader every meaning and nuance distilled from experience.
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I know enough about European politics to know you've got a lot of crazy people who make their way onto the ballot.
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I lost my dad back in the fall, and my dad said something to me a long time ago. He said, 'Are you happy with who you are now?' because we just had a real serious talk. And I said, 'Yeah.' He said, 'Then you can't regret what got you to where you are. So whatever you do and whatever mistakes you make, learn from them and grow. And just always treat people with kindness,' which I've tried to do.
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We have to be mentally prepared for every team we play. If we play a team who has a big name on their chests, then we are going to come out ready. But if we play a team who doesn't have a big name or a star player, we have a hard time coming out ready.
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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.
