Joanne Rowling Quotes
Whatever the reviewers feel about 'The Casual Vacancy', it is what I wanted it to be, and you can't say fairer than that as a writer.
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No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adult. He probably doesn't know the words he's saying, but he knows where to fit them to make what he's thinking logical to what you're saying.
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I don't think it is important to be a role model, because if you are a role model, you are pretending to be someone else.
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In America, black urban teenagers have long been lacking in inclusion. In France, there is a comparable lack of inclusion among North Africans. In much of Europe, there has been little attempt to include the Roma.
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Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.
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I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.
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It used to be that you came out of school, and you got married - those who were going to get married. But my peers are getting married in their early 30s, so now there's like this extra 10 years of that angst.
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When I think about making 'Within,' it was not a very fun experience at all.
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I'm just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome is.
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
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It's no secret that I'm my dad's biggest fan.
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There is, and there will be, an increasing demand for a principled global security provider, for a superpower that believes in multilateralism and cooperation.
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I'll hear people say every so often that having HIV must not be so bad - 'Just look at Magic and how well he's doing.'
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The point of writing my name to you is that I see who you are, you see who I am... and that's what it's about.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated institution it is.
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I know I'm never going to be as successful as my dad, but I get bored doing nothing. I couldn't go from vacation to vacation and have no motivation.
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I was the official wedding photographer at one of my best friends' weddings. Fortunately she was one of the most easygoing brides ever, so she made it easy for me.
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The experience of being an Olympian is one that can never be taken away from you.
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Egyptian comedy has a very, very old tradition. Our theater and our movies are just, like, amazing. And Egypt is kind of like the Hollywood of the Middle East. I mean, we had cinema maybe decades before the other Arab countries ever got independence.
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I'm not really the one in my family who knows everything that's going on, because I don't really pay attention.
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Money is more trouble than it is worth.
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When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.
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Whatever the reviewers feel about 'The Casual Vacancy', it is what I wanted it to be, and you can't say fairer than that as a writer.
