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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Talkers expand like bread dough.
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The smell of opium is the least stupid smell in the world.
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Homophobia in male sports is much stronger than in women's sports; the locker room environment is a lot different. It's going to be much more of a brave step, an earthshaking move, for a gay male athlete to come out.
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Without ethics, man has no future. This is to say, mankind without them cannot be itself. Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
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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.
