Joanne Rowling Quotes
During the first five years that I was writing the series, I made plans and wrote small pieces of all the books. I concentrate on one book at a time, though occasionally I will get an idea for a future book and scribble it down for future reference.
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I love myself. Anything that has my name I'm tickled to death.
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We shall probably get nearest to the truth if we think of the conscious and personal psyche as resting upon the broad basis of an inherited and universal psychic disposition which is as such unconscious, and that our personal psyche bears the same relation to the collective psyche as the individual to society.
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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I don't think I'm that intelligent. I think I'm semi-intelligent.
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You don't want to put all your lead on the target. You want to leave some arrows in the quiver.
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Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.
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Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
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I've got a couple of Harleys and a couple of Ducatis.
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For me, it was not destiny to make it to where I am now - I thought for a long- time I would become a go-kart mechanic, or a job like this, not an F1 driver.
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I don't talk about how old I am because sometimes it can affect parts that you get in Hollywood. I don't believe that it's a necessary element. I feel that I'm a character, and I'm an actor. People focusing on my age instead of the role I'm playing can be a hindrance.
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All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.
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Health food makes me sick.
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Every time you treat an Iraqi disrespectfully, you are working for the enemy.
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If the constitution goes, I go.
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I admire all people who are trying to be a good power in this chaotic world.
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I find celebrity really scary.
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The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
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My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.
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Progressivism is a spectrum; it’s not an ideology following one leader saying one thing. It’s many people who have very wildly diverging opinions about many things. But, as progressives, if we could commit to a general frame of reference that we are about improving the quality of life for a lot more people, we’re about helping working and middle-class people, and we’re about taking care of poor people, we could really make some inroads in political power in this country. But, if we choose to be purists, if we choose to be arguing for a consensus we will never reach, for agreement on every point, it’s never going to happen.
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The physical malaise we feel when we travel reflects a desynchronizing of all the clocks that reside in our tissues.
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A lot of shorts spend too much time setting up the idea; sometimes they meander.
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Don't forget to celebrate. When I was first coming up, everything was so serious - we were always rushing to get to the next thing - that we didn't take the time to say, 'Man, look what we did just now.'
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I set for myself only small goals, goals that are not that far away.
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During the first five years that I was writing the series, I made plans and wrote small pieces of all the books. I concentrate on one book at a time, though occasionally I will get an idea for a future book and scribble it down for future reference.
