Joanne Rowling Quotes
We let off a Dungbomb in the corridor and it upset him for some reason—" "So he hauled us off to his office and started threatening us with the usual—" "—detention—" "—disembowelment—
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I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking about it.
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I'm extremely superstitious.
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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I am a sound freak. I could play around with sound forever.
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We've always had anti-Muslim bigots, but they've always been at the fringes of society.
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Most people who get in trouble in politics usually get in trouble because they're disconnected from the people they serve, and I don't think anybody in Tennessee, even people who won't vote for me, would accuse me of that.
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Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.
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I don't think I'm a workaholic. Every weekend, I invite my colleagues and friends to my home to play cards. And people, my neighbors, are always surprised because I live on the second floor apartment, and there are usually 40 pairs of shoes in front of my gate, and people play cards inside and play chess. We have a lot of fun.
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I'm excellent at losing weight, but I've never been excellent at maintenance. I have some better days than others in terms of being hypervigilant, but with maintenance you don't know if you've been good at it until you're done.
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You don't have to do anything in the movies. You just sit there. Well, that's not entirely true. You do less.
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There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.
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I'm my own artist, and I see artists as movies. No one should try to change them for anything. If you don't like it, you just don't follow it. And if you don't like a movie you don't watch it. Watch another movie.
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You just keep moving forward and doing what you do and hope that it resonates with people. And if it doesn't, you just keep moving on until you find a project that does.
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One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model.
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In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
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When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger.
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Forbearance is the root of quietness and assurance forever.
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Seeing a full display of humanity involved in space is a game-changer for everyone. We've all looked at the stars; we've all imagined what was going on. Not everyone wants to go, but everyone wants to know what it's like.
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I really, truly believe in learning from other people's mistakes.
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Only free men are thoroughly grateful one to another.
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It's easy to confuse a lot of activity with a purposeful life. Do what lasts; let the rest fall away.
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We've won a lot of championships, but I'm not sure that any one of them is any more special than this one. This team has come so far. They continue to amaze me.
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We let off a Dungbomb in the corridor and it upset him for some reason—" "So he hauled us off to his office and started threatening us with the usual—" "—detention—" "—disembowelment—
