Joanne Rowling Quotes
The fates have informed me that your examination in June will concern the Orb, and I am anxious to give you sufficient practice. Hermione snorted. "Well honestly... 'the fates have informed her'... Who sets the exam? She does!
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I never race for records. The motivation to try to beat the record is not enough to continue. You have to enjoy it.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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Last year in a historic move, the state of New York passed the very first cigarette fire safety standard.
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Americans are more likely to watch a film in their own language. For the rest of the world, it doesn't matter so much.
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The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you.
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Most of my fans, if you were to look on their iPods, you'd see every possible genre of music represented in some capacity.
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I'd been touring for so long, seven years. For a year and a half I'd just been curious about what it was like not to tour. It's like if you were to lift a 100-pound barbell with your right arm for seven years, eventually you'd get really curious about what your left arm was capable of.
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I don't like to Google myself. I try and avoid it whenever I can.
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Be skeptical of concepts that divorce war from its political nature, particularly those that promise fast, cheap victory through technology.
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I originally went to school for writing, for non-fiction. I'm specifically a poetry major within literature, but I don't know.
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I did a lot of stunts, so the harness work isn't foreign to me either.
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To put me through school my morn had to work, so I was a latchkey kid.
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My husband and I were married in May 2007 on a sprawling rent-a-ranch in the Texas Hill Country. On the drive from Houston, we'd stopped off for our marriage license in the former produce aisle of a Winn Dixie-turned-courthouse in San Marcos and from there drove off the grid.
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Everybody has a story... and a scream.
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The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.
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We eat animals because they taste good. And if that's O.K., what's wrong with wearing fur? We need as a society to think seriously about our institutionalized animal use.
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The Dalai Lama can claim the sanction of the Buddha, who is said to have altered his teachings in order to reach a diverse audience.
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Most people hoard their money - just keep it in the bank. Bitcoin will really take off when people start spending it, creating a velocity of money.
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Anything I can sing, I call a song. Anything I can't sing, I call a poem.
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I had an attack of the gout two days before pulling out, and I went limping off to the war instead of coming limping back from it.
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Every experience in your life is being orchestrated to teach you something you need to know to move forward.
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If a Pope clearly realizes that he is no longer physically, psychologically, and spiritually capable of handling the duties of his office, then he has a right and, under some circumstances, also an obligation to resign.
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When I go back to the core of my childhood, my cousin Lucy seems always to be in the peripheral vision of my memories. She is off to one side, always off to one side, with a book, with a scheme or a project or an enterprise.
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The fates have informed me that your examination in June will concern the Orb, and I am anxious to give you sufficient practice. Hermione snorted. "Well honestly... 'the fates have informed her'... Who sets the exam? She does!
