Joanne Rowling Quotes
All those poor elves I haven’t set free yet, having to stay over during Christmas because there aren’t enough hats!

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I've done comedy most of my career, which I love, but I wanted to expand.
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Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the interests of the people who are not rich.
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I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.
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Although the evidence at this trial shows that Charles Manson was the leader of the conspiracy to commit these murders, there is no evidence that he actually personally killed any of the seven victims in this case.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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Today in Ukraine, many people struggle to survive, older ones often see the breakdown of the Soviet system as a loss of stability and security for average people, and therefore a certain hostility to quickly acquired wealth is from their point of view quite understandable at the first look.
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A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.
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Cooking and eating at home is made even better by the fact that you don't have to worry about driving after a couple of bottles of very nice wine. For me that's the ideal combination: working hard and enjoying the fruits of your labour.
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When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.
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I'm not better than anyone else. I'm not supposed to be on a pedestal. I've always stayed away from that.
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I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.
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Foucault's genius is to go down to the little dramas, dress them in facts hardly anyone else has noticed, and turn these stage settings into clues to a hitherto un-thought series of confrontations out of which, he contends, the orderly structure of society is composed.
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I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to do to generate growth is cut worker and environmental protections, cut taxes on the rich and stroke 'fat cats' until they purr with pleasure. I'm completely repudiating the idea that government has to get out of the way.
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Calling gender violence a women's issue is part of the problem. It gives a lot of men an excuse not to pay attention.
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I want to play a psycho, something more challenging than just 'the girlfriend' part.
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Someone once said about me that I talk to everyone the same, no matter what age they are. I don't see kids and adults. I see everyone the same.
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I prefer drawing the things I've written to handing them off to another artist. Turns out I'm a huge control freak - and because I write in thumbnails, the art is already happening by the time I start writing!
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If you're in a major city, there's a 25-year cycle. In Vegas, it's probably 10 or 15 years, except for those landmark places like Spago or Nobu. In Vegas, you have to reinvent yourself once in a while.
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Many markets work best with little or no outside interference. But others - especially those subject to big 'externalities' - need a helping hand.
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I admit that some of my ideas may have turned out to be pessimistic in nature.
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It is no accident that our business, The University of Phoenix, is one of the top 50 community-minded companies in America. My father and I are strong believers in the concept of community.
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'I understand that we're obligated, as humans, to share what we see and know. And that all knowledge must be democratically accessible.''It's the natural state of information to be free.'
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Yes, well, life is a folly. If you live long enough, nothing is surprising.
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All those poor elves I haven’t set free yet, having to stay over during Christmas because there aren’t enough hats!