Joanne Rowling Quotes
Once, long ago, Parminder had told Barry the story of Bhai Kanhaiya, the Sikh hero who had administered to the needs of those wounded in combat, whether friend or fo. When asked why he gave aid indiscriminately, Bahai Kanhaiya had replied that the light of God shone from every soul, and that he had been unable to distinguish between them.
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The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
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I don't really think about what's 'age appropriate' for my audience because I think they can handle quite a bit, but I do try to think about what's honest and true to my characters who have grown up in situations where they've been taught to handle these things very carefully and that they're very powerful.
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The real war will never get in the books.
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I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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Writing is literally transformative. When we read, we are changed. When we write, we are changed. It's neurological. To me, this is a kind of magic.
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This quality, I mean Geoffrey was with me, was very easy doing - he loved me very much, I loved him very much, and we understood each other so well that it was a pleasure to make music.
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Well, where there is freedom doubt itself must be free.
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Happiness exists only if you have a lot of people to share it with.
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Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.
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If a child plays sport early in childhood, and doesn't give it up, he will play sport for the rest of his life. And if children have a connection with, and are involved in the preparation of, the food they eat, then it will be normal for them to cook these kind of meals, and they will go on cooking them for the rest of their lives.
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I am Lebanese, and I know the interests of my country.
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We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.
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You can think of Hollywood as high school. TV actors are freshmen, comedy actors are maybe juniors, and dramatic actors - they're the cool seniors.
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Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.
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Happens to everybody. Horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.
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God primes the pump of obligation.
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Television was supposed to be a national park. Instead it has become a money machine. It's a commodity now, just like pork bellies.
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Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
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It is clear to me that under the right conditions, future technologies will be created that we cannot even imagine.
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A friend got me a job on the door of the Camden Palace nightclub, which quickly progressed to running the place.
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I understand that ups and downs in life keep wavering, and it's important to understand them and why they happen. So I learn whatever I have to and then move forward.
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Once, long ago, Parminder had told Barry the story of Bhai Kanhaiya, the Sikh hero who had administered to the needs of those wounded in combat, whether friend or fo. When asked why he gave aid indiscriminately, Bahai Kanhaiya had replied that the light of God shone from every soul, and that he had been unable to distinguish between them.
