Joanne Rowling Quotes
I was very low and I had to achieve something. Without the challenge, I would have gone stark raving mad.
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.
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Knowing constitutional law helps one at the opera. The trial in 'Billy Budd,' as example, invokes the fugitive slave clause of the U.S. Constitution.
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Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.
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I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.
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I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
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I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.
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Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
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But it is a hard, it's a hard profession teaching acting.
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This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.
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Typically, a book is published and gets one season in the sun. Eventually, you write another book, and maybe your old books get a bump, but my books seem to keep being discovered and recommended to new people of all ages.
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You live these three months in this reality, in this dark reality. You don't want to do those films every year because they're taxing. I started smoking a lot of cigarettes.
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As a New Yorker, or wherever I am, I just want to know I can get our of the house in five minutes if I have to and not have to spend a bunch of time obsessing in the mirror, trying on a million different options. Now, I just know what works.
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Many of my constituents are in their 80s, 90s, even 100, and our focus is ensuring that their needs can be provided for.
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I had one of the best days of my life. I spent the afternoon with my two kids and my ex-wife at Serendipity. Then I came to the theater, and you know, I think I did the play the best I've ever done it.
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Obviously, I love country music, so I wanna be able to live in the country music genre and then play to country music fans.
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Jill Clayburgh's life so closely paralleled mine, I feel as though a part of me lived a little through her and died a little with her.
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The year I turned 16, I spent the weeks before Christmas dropping hints to my parents about how much I wanted - no, needed - my own transportation.
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If you're not willing to work, you're never going to be able to experience the American Dream.
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Trends in fashion, design and pop culture are taking on more global influence, and of course, one thing that's always in style is color.
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Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life.
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Sometimes I'm happy - you can tell via Twitter. Sometimes I'm pissed off - you can tell via Twitter. I just think, at the end of the day, I don't want them to see me as a celebrity; I just want them to see me and say, 'He's like a regular person at his job right now who's mad.'
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I was very low and I had to achieve something. Without the challenge, I would have gone stark raving mad.
