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.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Life
  • Free
  • Simplicity

• 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.

  

  Ted Turner
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• 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.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Law
  • Constitution
  • Slave

• Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.

  

  Kate Fleetwood
  • Humble
  • Ride
  • Beginnings

• I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Work
  • Progress
  • Acting

• 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.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Film
  • Hero
  • Fans

• Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • People
  • Direction
  • Tradition

• This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
  • Work
  • Doing
  • Environmental

• 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.

  

  Raina Telgemeier
  • People
  • Book
  • Sun

• 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.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Live
  • Reality
  • Dark

• Many of my constituents are in their 80s, 90s, even 100, and our focus is ensuring that their needs can be provided for.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Focus
  • Needs
  • Even

• 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.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Life
  • Done
  • Kids

• Obviously, I love country music, so I wanna be able to live in the country music genre and then play to country music fans.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Live
  • Country

• 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.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Life
  • Feel
  • Died

• Hate is a very strong and heavy emotion, probably as strong as love. I don't think I can live with hatred. If something bad happens, you feel bad about it; you forgive and move on. There's no hatred.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • Love
  • Hate
  • Feel

• We're not even supposed to have a break in August if we have not passed the appropriations bills. It's in the House rules.

  

  Dan Webster
  • House
  • Rules
  • August

• I'm not a negative person.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Person
  • Negative

• It just so happened that my agent called and said, 'There's this movie 'Pitch Perfect.' Here are the sides.' I think I originally read for Bumper, because Donald didn't have much in the script, so I read all Bumper's lines. I beatboxed for them, because that's what my character was supposed to do. And then I was like, 'By the way, I rap.'

  

  Utkarsh Ambudkar
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Think

• A girl has the power to go forward in her life. And she’s not only a mother, she’s not only a sister, she’s not only a wife. But a girl has the – she should have an identity. She should be recognized and she has equal rights as a boy.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Life
  • She
  • Power

• I was never a joiner. I tried - I had people I admired and liked and wanted to hang with, but I ended up starting a theatre company and that took me back to Chicago... I guess I wasn't a scenester in the end. Something must have worked out right, as I'm still here - but I'm only a binge socialite.

  

  John Cusack
  • People
  • Up
  • Theatre

• If you realize early what your influence is, you can have a better understanding of what you are writing about.

  

  Alexi Zentner
  • Writing
  • Understanding

• I'm very religious. I believe that things happen, and you have to go along with them.

  

  Debbie Reynolds
  • Believe
  • Religious

• I was very low and I had to achieve something. Without the challenge, I would have gone stark raving mad.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Challenge
  • Mad