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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I've been in thousands of conversations dripping with misogyny. I've initiated many of those conversations myself. From my fraternity roots to my bachelor days in New York, I know I have not always shown up in ways that I am proud of.
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And at the same time, I had my very first concert at the age of 16. I hadn't heard a symphony orchestra before, and I was so deeply impressed I said I have to be a conductor.
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Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.
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My family and I moved at least six times before I graduated high school. I was fortunate to have a large family network that combined their resources to help me accomplish my goals - but not everyone may be as lucky.
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I can't know entirely what's at stake beforehand; you find out as you go. I love to take a poem, for instance, that starts with something seemingly frivolous or inconsequential and then grows in gravity until by the end it's something very serious.
James Tate -
Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.
