Joanne Rowling Quotes

I mean, is 'fat' really the worst thing a human being can be? Is 'fat' worse than 'vindictive', 'jealous', 'shallow', 'vain', 'boring' or 'cruel'? Not to me I'd rather [my daughters] were independent, interesting, idealistic, kind, opinionated, original, funny - a thousand things, before 'thin'. Let my girls be Hermiones, rather than Pansy Parkinsons.

Joanne Rowling

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In the whole course of our work at the theatre we have been, I may say, drenched with advice by friendly people who for years gave us the reasons why we did not succeed... All their advice, or at least some of it, might have been good if we had wanted to make money, to make a common place of amusement.

Lady Gregory
- People
- Good
- Work
Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.

Patrick Duffy
- Los Angeles
- Angeles
- Los
I like big thinkers who, no matter how big their vision, can sit down and talk to me about hour-to-hour, day-to-day type stuff they do to move the ball forward.

Paige Craig
- Vision
- Talk
- Forward
I don't find much influence in opera. It was such a different part of me.

Zola Jesus
- Different
- Me
- Influence
When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.

Irving Layton
- You
- Clever
- Convince
My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.

Laura Mvula
- Night
- Write
- Very