Joanne Rowling Quotes
Dumbledore raised his finger for silence, a silence which fell as though he had struck Uncle Vernon dumb.
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I didn't want to leave Newcastle, but that's football.
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It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.
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One can never produce anything as terrible and impressive as one can awesomely hint about.
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Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.
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If I decide to make a coat red in the show, it's not just red, I think: is it communist red? Is it cherry cordial? Is it ruby red? Or is it apple red? Or the big red balloon red?
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
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Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.
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A lot of fighters come from Brazil. We've been doing this for long, long years.
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Not knowing the thing that's chasing you is a lot scarier than seeing it right in front of you.
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I mean, if you have to wake up in the morning to be validated by the editorial page of the New York Times, you got a pretty sorry existence.
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That's where this exciting bundle of energy and joy named Johnny Olson made his entrance and ultimately did the announcing. I had never seen anything like what I was involved in for the next 15 minutes!
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Life is more important than 'what film I do next.'
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Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.
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I always think it's really hard if you are Asian or Chinese to be really in Hollywood. There are not so many really great characters for you.
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All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.
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Executives are waking up to realize that they can do a lot better, save money, make better decisions if they optimize and start thinking geographically and have a location strategy.
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It's a trip but it hasn't crossed over to the point where women are throwing their panties at me.
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People have said, 'You've turned your back on pediatrics.' I said, 'No. It took me until I was in my 60s to realize that politics was a part of pediatrics.'
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I was sent the script for 'Silver Linings' when I was doing a play in D.C. at The Kennedy Center with Cate Blanchett and I was sent the script and asked if I was interested, and I said 'Oh, boy am I!'
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My job was to build, and that's still my job - and I like that better than interviews.
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The director's job is full of all sorts of annoyances and details - like how many cars are on the street. Ugh. I don't want it. I like my gig. And I feel that for the next 30 years or so I can keep learning more about it.
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Dumbledore raised his finger for silence, a silence which fell as though he had struck Uncle Vernon dumb.
