Joanne Rowling Quotes
When you were straight, evil thoughts and memories came pouring up out of the darkness inside you; buzzing black flies clinging to the insides of your skull.
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I don't have a phone, but I do have an iPad.
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In terms of achievement, the pride is very important to me. It keeps me going every day. The money is always second to me.
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I am not an American; I am the American.
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I think I'm telling the truth. I sat by Ray Perkins at the Hall of Fame dinner in New York, and at that time he didn't know he was our coach and I didn't either.
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I love entertaining and doing Martha Stewart stuff.
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I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
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I don't have any particular goals in making a recording. In a way the recording is itself the goal. The music comes into my mind, and from there the main job is to give form to it.
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Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
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Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.
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Different days, I think about different victories. Ricky Hatton is one of those fights. I respect Ricky Hatton. He's a warrior. He's a hell of a warrior.
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You know the greatest thing about working on 'Fallon?' I get so many anonymous gifts.
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For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I've been in.
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My three husbands were afraid of me. I am a very powerful woman.
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Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
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If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.
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There is an urgent need for the Central government to take the lead in ensuring health and nutrition service delivery.
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I like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it.
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It is noticeable how many times you see a panel at a conference made up of all men or look into the audience and see very few women, whether it is an event focused on technology or business.
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I really detest brunch. I think it's a waste of a good day. Detest is a little too severe, but I would say I'm not a brunch person.
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I feel empathy for people who are trapped in a prison of self-consciousness in an uncomfortable way. We can be free, but we're so held back. So perhaps that's why I feel a duty to make my work. I feel liberated when I'm doing it, and I want other people to feel liberated through it.
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Modern mass culture, aimed at the 'consumer', the civilisation of prosthetics, is crippling people's souls, setting up barriers between man and the crucial questions of his existence, his consciousness of himself as a spiritual being.
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When you were straight, evil thoughts and memories came pouring up out of the darkness inside you; buzzing black flies clinging to the insides of your skull.
