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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I don't want to be an actor or nothing but if I have to, I'll act if it's the right thing.
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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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My parents are both teachers, so we had the summers off.
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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 think that what went wrong with religion is the same thing that went wrong with politics. Is that it became too money based and too controlling. It's just a weakness that we human beings have for control - we want one thing and then we want more and then we want more.
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You look in the mirror everyday and you see the same thing. As an entertainer, you wanna see something new.
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...a detailed mathematical discussion shows that whatever kind of wave-packet we select to represent the electron, the product of the two uncertainties of position and momentum can never be less than h, which is precisely what Heisenberg found...
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I get more choices of things, projects, which is a blessing and a curse. I can only do one at a time. Sometimes you don't know which way to go.
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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.
