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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I have a different relationship with Chucky because he's been on top of my bookshelf in the corner of my living room for my entire life. He was a great tool for scaring friends, and when I see him in different theme parks I've been to, or in commercials, my heart swells a little bit, and I'm like, 'Aww! It's my Chucky!'
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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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He was a man born into a world dominated by scientific materialism. His objection to this materialism was not merely intellectual, or even egotistical (the feeling 'If the world is wholly material, then I can't be very important'). It was the feeling that man is cut off from his inner powers by this superficial attitude.
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God, in His wisdom, has so linked the whole human family together that any violence done at one end of the chain is felt throughout its length.
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... in that quiet gentle voice, as sweetly pure as the stab of an icicle.
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Murder decorated with a ribbon is still murder.
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Don't ever let anyone else write your story for you.
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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.
