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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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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I'm not a critic. I'm an actor. I see the role I get given on the page. I try to bring it to life as best as I can.
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Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
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Tragedy was foresworn, in ritual denial of the ripe knowledge that we are drawing away from one another, that we share only one thing, share the fear of belonging to another, or to others, or to God; love or money, tender equated in advertising and the world, where only money is currency, and under dead trees and brittle ornaments prehensile hands exchange forgeries of what the heart dare not surrender.
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Cyberspace still exists at the pleasure of the real world.
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The Chinese government only superficially speaks the language of the international community.
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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.
