Joanne Rowling Quotes
Finding out what you’re good at, and doing it to the best of your ability, is the route to self-respect.
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I have four kids. They are two years apart, and contraception has been very, very good to me.
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I believe that dogma is often evil.
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I think we have a real obligation when we do have animals in captivity to understand their needs and to care for them as well as we can.
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I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.
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I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
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I'm thrilled that country music fans like my stuff, but so do a lot of people outside of country music, people who just love music. My goal is more to reach music lovers than to appeal to a genre. I love country music, and I'm proud to represent it, but I don't obsess over it as a category.
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I was into punk rock back when I was in high school. I used to go around to dive venues and take photographs. But now it's been just much more about the country stuff and soulful folk.
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Antonio Berardi is one of my good friends.
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I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict me.
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This country wants to laugh. We want to, and we need to. I'm happy to oblige.
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Where do you get lumpy tiles? Well, of course, you don't. But I get a lot of toilets, and so you just dispatch a toilet with a hammer, and then you have lumpy tiles.
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I would like to break out of this dark, brooding image, cause I'm actually not like that at all.
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I'm the girl who - I call it girl-next-door-itis - the hot guy is friends with and gets all his relationship advice from but never considers dating.
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Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.
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The next time you feel unworthy, inadequate or inferior, remember that these experiences have nothing to do with humbleness, any more than lowering yourself to connect with another individual has to do with humbleness. There are no lower or higher individuals in the perception of a humble person. There are only souls. There is only love.
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I'm vehemently against population transfer. I'm against expelling anyone from his house, ever - whether it be a Jew or an Arab.
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I'm more of a freestyle dancer. I like to do my own thing.
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Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.
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A singer starts by having his instrument as a gift from God... When you have been given something in a moment of grace, it is sacrilegious to be greedy.
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What I know for sure: Often we don't even realize who we're meant to be because we're so busy trying to live out someone else's ideas. But other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny.
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Well, I'm certainly glad that I was nominated for an Oscar. There is certainly a respect that comes with that nod. Also, a compliment that comes with it, too. Not that I really know what I'm doing. In a lot of ways I feel like some child on set, or like a kid that snuck in the back door.
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We welcome, we welcome this good cooperation between Russia and NATO.
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I think climbing mountains or buildings or whatever has been a really good metaphor for finishing my work. Because no matter how tired you get, no matter how you feel like you can't possibly do this, somehow you do.
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Finding out what you’re good at, and doing it to the best of your ability, is the route to self-respect.
