Joanne Rowling Quotes
I see a light in the kitchen. Let us not deprive Molly any longer of the chance to deplore how thin you are.
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I don't really think about what's 'age appropriate' for my audience because I think they can handle quite a bit, but I do try to think about what's honest and true to my characters who have grown up in situations where they've been taught to handle these things very carefully and that they're very powerful.
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I've really been writing a lot of country songs. I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind,' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.
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I watch a lot of television. I always have.
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I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.
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You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm.
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As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain.
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Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.
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The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.
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Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
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If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.
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My personal philosophy is that people should be extremely selfish for the first half of their life and extremely unselfish for the second half because then they can do the most good.
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I've had a hip replacement, I've beaten cancer, I had my hand operation, and I stopped drinking. Something inside of me just went, 'I'm done.'
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Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
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I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
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Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.
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When people are poor, they find ways of making things taste like fish.
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I was naturalized right before Pearl Harbor. Nine days later, I would have been classified as an enemy alien. I might have been sent to a camp.
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I grew up in a working-class Israeli family, which was feminist only in its female-dominated structure.
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I don't think business news is just for old white men with money.
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Phil was a visionary. He just had a great vision and a true, deep passion for the music.
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I knew I was going to love my daughter, but I had no idea how much I would love her.
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When I was young, I had an 'aha' moment in church. There was a thing called testimony service, and somebody would sing a song, and everyone else would join in, finding a note where they fit. During one of those, a light went on in my head. In that moment, I heard everything - Parliament, the Staple Singers, Curtis Mayfield, Prince - in there.
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I see a light in the kitchen. Let us not deprive Molly any longer of the chance to deplore how thin you are.
