Joanne Rowling Quotes

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• I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.

  

  Dan Hawkins
  • Music
  • Myself
  • Guitar

• It's tough when you have to be away. But I'm probably at home more than my dad was because he was working two or three jobs sometimes.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Home
  • Dad
  • Tough

• I'd definitely be up for 'EastEnders.' Just the same as I would if 'Coronation Street' was offered. Either way, it would be like going back to my roots.

  

  Jack Wild
  • Up
  • Same
  • Roots

• Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Win
  • Credit
  • Soldiers

• Memo to White House: Calling voters stupid is not a winning strategy.

  

  Karl Rove
  • House
  • Winning
  • Stupid

• I went to church when I was younger, but it was never something pushed down my throat or anything, which is a good thing. I found out for myself where I belonged.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • Good
  • Church
  • Myself

• Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

  

  Harold Coffin
  • Souls
  • Corporations
  • Treason

• It took me a long time to figure out how to act, and how to conduct myself in the business so I could get what I felt I needed to support my potential and give them what they wanted.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Time
  • Long
  • Business

• One thing that is not to be underestimated is American culture's influence on the rest of the world.

  

  Yael Stone
  • World
  • American
  • Culture

• Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Great
  • Light
  • Beauty

• I wouldn't be able to do the songs as long as I've been doing if I didn't feel the pulse of the world. But I can feel people and I know what they want. I feel like I know how they are, because I am the people. And I just have a gift.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • World
  • Songs

• I fell in love with science and decided to continue for my Ph.D., and from there on, I was a scientist.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Science
  • Scientist
  • Continue

• A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Dream
  • Dreams
  • Nothing

• I don't think that I could ever be a strict dad. I never grew up with anybody strict in my life... I'm not saying I'm a role model by any means or anything. I think the fact that I wasn't told what not to do all the time - my spirit kind of told me things that I shouldn't - I got to develop on my own. It's part of your common sense.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• One of the bibles of my youth was 'Birds of the West Indies,' by James Bond, a well-known ornithologist, and when I was casting about for a name for my protagonist I thought, 'My God, that's the dullest name I've ever heard,' so I appropriated it. Now the dullest name in the world has become an exciting one.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • World
  • God
  • Youth

• People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Content

• But did I think it would last more than 13 episodes at the time? No, I didn't think that. I never know.

  

  Fisher Stevens
  • Time
  • Think
  • Know

• The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Die
  • Win
  • Jealousy

• I acquired quite a lot of technical skill and got quite a long way with my painting, but I never felt I was doing what New Zealand was about with my paint.

  

  Ngaio Marsh
  • Long
  • Painting

• Coming from a family who put a lot of emphasis on academics, I always thought I was going to be a lawyer.

  

  Edward Enninful
  • Family
  • Lawyer

• It must be God first, God second, and God third.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God

• Well, the first thing we do is take our brain out and put it in a drawer. Stick it somewhere and let it tantrum until it wears itself out. You may still hear the brain and all the shitty things it is saying to you, but it will be muffled, and just the fact that it is not in your head anymore will make things seem clearer. And then you just do it.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • May
  • Brain
  • Drawer

• Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Up
  • Business
  • Character

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  Joanne Rowling
  • Abuse