Joanne Rowling Quotes
He had fought back with every weapon in his arsenal, being alternatively obtuse, evasive and pedantic, for it was wonderful how you could obscure an emotional issue by appearing to seek precision.
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I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.
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If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
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Power focuses on self-preservation; principle focuses on making ideas successful.
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I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the character that you played prior to the movie.
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It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.
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Every time you get something, give something away.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.
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Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.
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With the scale of our traffic, content library and monetization ability, we are confident to see profitable growth in the future.
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A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.
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Usually, I just don't care what I look like. If it's cold, I'm, like, putting on whatever I have to to be warm.
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I come by writing dialogue fairly naturally, I've got a chatty family; I'm a bit of a voyeur, and if I'm ever in a public place, I automatically find myself listening.
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Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.
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I could hum Beatles songs before I could talk - not very well, but sort of.
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I want Bolivians to support their president.
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I wish every woman would love herself and embrace what she was given naturally.
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The grand saga of how humans spread across the globe will need some amendments and annotations – rendezvous here, elopements there, and the commingling of genes most everywhere.
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I'm really addicted to water. I carry a bottle of water everywhere I go. I know people think I'm a nut.
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I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset - tears are words waiting to be written.
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Welsh is my mother tongue, and my children speak it. If you come and live in this community you'll work out pretty quickly that it's beneficial to learn the language, because if you're going to the pub or a cafe you need to be a part of the local life.
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Changes in the structure of society are not brought about solely by massive engines of doctrine. The first flash of insight which persuades human beings to change their basic assumptions is usually contained in a few phrases.
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Use description of landscape to help you establish the emotional tone of the scene. Keep notes of how other authors establish mood and foreshadow events by describing the world around the character.
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He had fought back with every weapon in his arsenal, being alternatively obtuse, evasive and pedantic, for it was wonderful how you could obscure an emotional issue by appearing to seek precision.
