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.

Joanne Rowling

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• It's not a monster movie. It's a supernatural thriller.

  

  Ed Wood
  • Movie
  • Monster
  • Supernatural

• 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.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • God
  • Art
  • Nature

• 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.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Opportunity

• Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • Problem
  • Moral
  • Economic

• 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!'

  

  Fiona Dourif
  • Life
  • Great
  • Different

• Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.

  

  Ouida
  • Friends
  • See
  • Goodbye

• The thrill of acting is making a character real. Modeling is the opposite of real. It's being fake in front of the camera.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Real
  • Character
  • Acting

• People just kind of associate me with kicking some ass.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • People
  • Kind
  • Ass

• 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.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • People
  • Different
  • Want

• The series of photographic operations, developing, washing, final drying, takes about quarter of an hour.

  

  Gabriel Lippmann
  • Operations
  • Quarter
  • Washing

• I took a political stance early on, but I don't think my work is overtly political. I respond to events.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Work
  • Think
  • Political

• I've never abandoned the novel.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Never
  • Novel
  • Abandoned

• Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Art
  • Bread
  • Breaking

• 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.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Up
  • Great
  • Different

• 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.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Stage
  • Performance
  • Events

• AIDS is an absolutely tragic disease. The argument about AIDS' being some kind of divine retribution is crap.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Kind
  • Argument
  • Divine

• 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.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Support
  • Woman
  • Choice

• I learned so much about recording and about singing on records from Ken Nelson.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Singing
  • Learned
  • Records

• Warner Brothers had to hire [a stunt double] and no one thought a child could do this. Billy Friedkin came to me before we were filming [The Exorcist] and said ,if you do not do all of this film, the film will be a joke.It's why they stripped the makeup down to the bare minimum, a piece on my chin, piece across my mouth that disfigured my mouth. You have scars here. Take away my eyebrows. It was my real hair. Shampoo was put in it that dried.

  

  Linda Blair
  • Real
  • Why
  • Hair

• If I couldn't laugh, I'd rather die.

  

  Claudette Colbert
  • Die
  • Laugh

• People like to hear me say, 'You love me, Chandler Bing. You just don't know you love me.'

  

  Maggie Wheeler
  • People
  • Know
  • Like

• In every war zone that I've been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public perception of why the war was being fought. In every crisis, the issues have been far more complex than the public has been allowed to know.

  

  John le Carre
  • Why
  • War
  • Reality

• As writers, we can't predict who might come along who might find our offerings valuable.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Find
  • Come
  • Predict

• You've got to appreciate what the worst is. You don't want to find yourself in a situation where you're facing it.

  

  Joanne Rowling