Joanne Rowling Quotes
I'm not so naive that I didn't know or didn't suspect that, at some point, someone was going to say "You're writing about the occult." My wizarding world is a world of imagination. I think it is a moral world.
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North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
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I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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I'm as radical as libertarians come.
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Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
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I made sacrifices willingly; it was what I did best.
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So, it's like: I'm an OK singer; I'm an OK guitar player and you put them together and... it's just OK.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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I think we are living in paradise with regards to the ways we can amuse ourselves, communicate. We have such a richness of possibilities.
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Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age.
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If the constitution goes, I go.
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I dedicated my 20s, my passion and energy to the name 'Rain.' I always did my best, and I thought if I did, it would eventually show, and even if it didn't turn out well, I wouldn't have any regrets.
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I feel like every word I say now, I can really inspire people.
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I don't know how I got out of some of the scrapes I was in. But I know that there's some sort of plan.
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If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness.
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When I read the script and saw the jazz music setting, and when I read the name of the filmmaker was Damien Chazelle, I immediately got this mental image of Antoine Fuqua.
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War is the continuation of politics by other means.
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I think all girls in the world wish they were a Parisian girl - that sort of effortless chic confidence and comfort in their own skin.
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If a war started, the oil price probably would go up, as you said, maybe $5, $6 a barrel until you saw other oil from the extra supplies that are available elsewhere coming into the world, into the market.
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I consider myself a writer who writes about American expatriates. And if I have any overt cause as a writer besides writing the best prose I can, it's to try to make Americans have a more visceral feeling about how America impacts everybody in the world.
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I'm not so naive that I didn't know or didn't suspect that, at some point, someone was going to say "You're writing about the occult." My wizarding world is a world of imagination. I think it is a moral world.
