Joanne Rowling Quotes
The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.
Joanne Rowling
Quotes to Explore
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
Kate Moss
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My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'
Ralph Lauren
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If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.
Patrick Carney
The Black Keys
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Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.'
Oriana Fallaci
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Touring helped me understand where I needed to be better in my music.
Vince Staples
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I started out doing musicals.
Zooey Deschanel
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I think I felt at some point that I couldn't understand poetry or that it was beyond me or it didn't speak to my experience. I think that was because I hadn't yet found the right poems to invite me in.
Natasha Trethewey
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I like to record records in Los Angeles. It's less distracting than New York, where I was based.
Rain Phoenix
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The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.
A. J. Liebling
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I actually have more shoes than anyone will ever know.
Tamara Mellon
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Early in my career, I sometimes found it difficult to make the tough people decisions - I had to learn that. In business, you want to listen. You want to learn. You want to make sure you're not proceeding without information. But if you wait too long, you can actually hurt an organization even more.
Laura Lang
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It's an interesting thing to play the heroes of our society, like cops and firefighters. They're the basic heroes that, as little boys and little girls, you look up to as the first heroes of your small, specific community.
Omari Hardwick
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As a player, you just want to focus on controlling the controllables.
Carli Lloyd
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Winning the Oscar was like winning all the prizes in one single night that I never won as a kid.
Kate Winslet
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My family and friends were definitely the key to my recovery. One thing that I do suggest is that anyone dealing with a life-threatening illness like cancer choose a point person for people to call to find out how you are doing - a sister, brother, mother, father, daughter, son, or close friend.
Olivia Newton-John
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The death of a famous person is different from the death of a loved one, whether it is Michael Jackson, Frank McCourt, or Walter Cronkite. We didn't know any of them personally, and yet, we experience a sense of loss.
Madeleine M. Kunin
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I live on a ranch that's larger than Manhattan. That's a weird circumstance.
Val Kilmer
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For most of my 20s, I looked like I was 12. Now that I'm pushing 40, I guess I look closer to... 15? It must be my macrobiotic diet. Oh, wait, except that I don't have one of those.
Gabriel Mann
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I see so many people get so wrapped up in wanting to get a bigger SUV or a bigger house. But then I think, 'My God, I could have been born a woman in the Congo.'
Janine di Giovanni
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I will not sit in a room with black people when the N word is used. I know it was meant to belittle a person, so I will not sit there and have that poison put on me. Now a black person can say, 'Oh, you know, I can use this word because I'm black.'
Maya Angelou
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Success is not two cars or a swimming pool. It's the approval of your peers.
Peter Finch
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In making our decisions, we must use the brains that God has given us. But we must also use our hearts, which He also gave us.
Fulton Oursler
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The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.
Joanne Rowling
