Joanne Rowling Quotes
You've got to appreciate what the worst is. You don't want to find yourself in a situation where you're facing it.
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It's not a monster movie. It's a supernatural thriller.
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Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
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All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. Sure did. And when the opportunity came, I took it. The first album, 'Presenting Isaac Hayes,' didn't do so hot, but it was like a prelude for what was to come.
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Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically.
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Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
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The thrill of acting is making a character real. Modeling is the opposite of real. It's being fake in front of the camera.
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People just kind of associate me with kicking some ass.
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The way that I opened the door for the young people that come from where I come from and that have a different background, that is what I want to be remembered for.
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The series of photographic operations, developing, washing, final drying, takes about quarter of an hour.
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I took a political stance early on, but I don't think my work is overtly political. I respond to events.
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I've never abandoned the novel.
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Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
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I sing in many different colors and, hopefully, they add up to a great performance that, after you leave the theater, makes you feel like I've really shared something of myself.
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I belong on the stage. I love how the day's events, whatever you read in the newspapers or watch on the TV, are reflected in the performance and how it's received.
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AIDS is an absolutely tragic disease. The argument about AIDS' being some kind of divine retribution is crap.
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You have a choice: Support the woman standing next to you, or compete with her. But if you compete, you're going to be miserable.
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I learned so much about recording and about singing on records from Ken Nelson.
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If it was just me and Elvis one on one, which only happened once or twice in the times that I did see him, it was a really comfortable. He was a cool guy. Easy laugh, nice guy.
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Noise is a buffer, more effective than cubicles or booth walls.
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Safety is something that happens between your ears, not something you hold in your hands.
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Freedom has its risks.
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I love what I do. I love the music, and I'm honored to be presented with a star by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce.
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One of the most important times in my life was the first time that I remember seeing my daddy get onstage and play music with a bunch of guys. All of them playing something different at the same time and all becoming one, and me soaking that in at 5 years old and going, 'That's my daddy up there, and he's a part of something.'
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You've got to appreciate what the worst is. You don't want to find yourself in a situation where you're facing it.
