Joanne Rowling Quotes
Raindrops the size of bullets thundered on the castle windows for days on end; the lake rose, the flower beds turned into muddy streams, and Hagrid’s pumpkins swelled to the size of garden sheds.

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My beliefs will run through everything I do. My beliefs, my values are my anchor and when people try to drag me, as I know they will, it is to that sense of right and wrong, that sense of who I am and what I believe, to which I will always hold.
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In those years of the Fifties, in London and New York, I lived, without knowing it, in a time when the profoundest changes were happening: when a radical alteration was getting ready to happen in the way a society saw young girls. And, as a consequence, in the way they saw themselves.
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If I get involved in a charity, I really want to be a part of it. I don't want to just put my name on your pamphlet.
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If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
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I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
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If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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The question for immigration reform is not if we'll get it done, it's when we'll get it done. It's going to get done.
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If you actually keep things very organized and clutter-free, you can have more furniture than you think you can in a small space.
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Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman.
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Our relationships are precious, valuable treasures from heaven, and we should handle them carefully, always looking for ways to build bridges to each other's hearts.
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I'm from the gulf coast of Louisiana.
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Whether I build a character from the ground up or develop one, whether within my own copyright or in licensed work, I can step into that character's mind. It takes a kind of voluntary dissociation akin to method acting, military planning, marketing, or detective work: to think like the other guy and work out what he's going to do next.
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There are 3.5 million Americans in Puerto Rico. So, just like we're quick to go everywhere else and help, we expect that same of America for Puerto Rico. These are U.S. citizens!
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I am extremely left brain dominant, probably 95%-5%. The feeling side of my brain is not really strong.
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I've always been torn between the pure and the social sciences.
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Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad.
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To ISIS and others: We will defeat you.
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When you're the only girl in a family of men, you have to be pretty sassy.
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'It is what you believe that translates in the life you live.'
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Raindrops the size of bullets thundered on the castle windows for days on end; the lake rose, the flower beds turned into muddy streams, and Hagrid’s pumpkins swelled to the size of garden sheds.