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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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Because all actions and expressions stem from the mind, it is vital to know the mind as well as decide in what way we'll use it. Everyone has heard of psychosomatic illness, and most of us acknowledge that psychosomatic sicknesses can and do occur. But what about psychosomatic wellness?
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'Made' is about opening your heart to people who deserve your love and not trying to turn other people into something that they're not: not trying to save people who don't want to be saved. If you go down that dark path, you're not going to end up doing any good.
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When I was young, no one got married. Now, all the young people, they want to get married, they want security. Now that my children's friends are getting married, I go to more weddings than I ever did when I was young.
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Writing doesn't come easily to me. It gets more and more difficult.
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There is so much of good in human nature that men grow to like each other upon better acquaintance, and this points to another way in which we may strive to promote the peace of 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.
