Joanne Rowling Quotes
We Slytherins are brave, yes, but not stupid. For instance, given the choice, we will always choose to save our own necks.
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What we do is nothing like the portrayal of badminton as a gentle game played in a church hall. Badminton can be fun and relaxing, but as professionals, this sport is our heart and soul and passion, and our games are fast and aggressive.
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I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.
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Most artists, their 60th show was in front of no one. My first show was in front of 1,200 people.
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I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
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I'm having a great time. It's like I'm on some ridiculous big roller coaster not knowing what's happening next, but just having a great time on the ride.
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I take pride in taking care of all the housework so that my wife, who works as a designer for Martha Stewart, won't need to sacrifice any of her leisure time when she gets home.
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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
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I love to cook when I have the time. I don't cook French or Mexican food with exact recipes. I just go to the supermarket and buy things that look good, and I mix it all together and invent something. Ninety-five percent of the time, I'm lucky. Sometimes not so lucky, and I say, 'Let's go out to dinner.'
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All beautiful things in this world are because of women.
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A woman doesn't care if she hasn't a stomach, provided she looks as if she hasn't.
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The world's major metropolitan cities are more or less the same.
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I like fighters who come to fight.
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I don't know about the whole song-and-dance thing. But if India will have me, the independent cinema scene there is something I'm really interested in.
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I haven't been back in Montreal, at all, since the playoffs ended two years ago. It's been a while.
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I do loads of squats with weights. It's great for your bum and legs.
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It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.
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I really enjoy watching TV; it offers an amazing window, and its an incredible way of presenting history to young people in particular.
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Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.
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I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write; to think only of my own tastes and ideals, without a thought of those of editors or publishers.
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The Russians and the Chinese will use their veto to make sure that there is an alphabet soup of organizations running Kosovo.
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I have never pretended to be a legal scholar, but when scores of lawyers are lining up to agree with the Supreme Court that the president has the power to make choices when it comes to whom to deport and whom to let stay, then I tend to agree with them.
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We Slytherins are brave, yes, but not stupid. For instance, given the choice, we will always choose to save our own necks.
