Joanne Rowling Quotes
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When you get older, you have to stay a bit rock n' roll so that young people will still be interested in you. The way you move, the way you talk, maybe the way you have your hair in your face a little bit - this keeps you interesting.
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I've always been in love with music, but I've never thought to sing.
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I watch virtually no TV. All my screen time is computer time for me. When I'm not doing that I'm reading or talking to my friends who I got to know through computers.
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If one line about the film excites me, I try to take it forward.
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I just want to stay creative, share my ideas and see where it all leads.
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The Chinese have certain advantages. The fact that it's a single party government. But I do believe in the long run the fact that India is a functioning democracy committed to the rule of law. Our system is slow to move but I'm confident that once decisions are taken they are going to be far more durable.
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Who knows what would have become of me, if my parents had not had their influence on me.
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I think the most important element of a power outfit is proper fit. The one item to focus on is a suit. If it's the right fit, you could wear it with a T-shirt and still convey the positive message.
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I'm like a beast. I just take it out on the track.
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As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.
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I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.
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I was terribly wounded by my wife's death.
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It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.
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Don't ever call a guy first. The thing they want the most is whatever they can't have. It sounds really juvenile, but it works.
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I can't sing, but I'll sing over this chord progression, like, over and over, for however long it takes - sometimes it's, like, two minutes, sometimes it's 20 minutes - until I've found like a hook or something that I'm really happy with. And then, basically, it just like that's my melody, and that's where I start from.
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Look at the Afghans, during the time of the Soviet invasion. They were among the poorest Muslims in the world, yet they were sustained by their faith in God, and God alone.
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I will never do a record without some sense of responsibility.
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You realize, no matter how great, books are not shows or movies; each operates on their own different rules. 'Game of Thrones' is no different. Being forced to come up with those scenes on short notice helped how we were viewing the show and forcing it to come into its own.
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It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.
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When I'm in the midst of finishing a book, I can be working around the clock.
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Don't get me wrong - I love London, and still have an apartment there. But it is also a hard city and it wears you down.
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If you're going climbing with young people, you get very, very used to seeing your climbing partner as a tiny little dot.
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When I am writing a story it feels as real as the life I am experiencing off the page. It's an emotional illusion, I guess.
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The first story I finished was when I was six years old.
