Joanne Rowling Quotes

Honestly, I think we should be delighted people still want to read, be it on a Kindle or a Nook or whatever the latest device is.

Joanne Rowling

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• People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • People
  • Time
  • True

• Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost!

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Lost
  • Never
  • Idea

• Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we - kids and grown-ups - all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Value

• I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Hope
  • Small
  • Movies

• If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year. I don't manage nearly that... but I have published slightly too much recently.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Book

• The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.

  

  Ice T
  • Movie
  • City
  • Day

• If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Star
  • Never
  • Child

• There is no reliable way to calculate from the number of recorded compliance issues how many Americans have had their communications improperly collected, stored or distributed by the NSA.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Way
  • Number
  • How

• I'm looking for people who are at the cutting edge of what they do, who think out-of-the-box. Even if their work is something common today, it might have been absolutely new when they started out, so we'd like to hear of their beginnings.

  

  Lakshmi Pratury
  • People
  • Work
  • Today

• The craft Emmys are kind of the kids' table at Thanksgiving. You're not really invited to the big dance. It's still really, really exciting, and the statue still counts.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Kids
  • Dance
  • Thanksgiving

• I wear tweed jackets and button-down shirts. I am a 1955 graduate of Harvard University who drives a 1968 Mercedes.

  

  J. Anthony Lukas
  • Shirts
  • Drives
  • Jackets

• The thing about tennis is if you stay off for two weeks, or just for three days, you can lose your rhythm quickly. So it's just a question of constant diligence and vigilance.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Question
  • Tennis
  • Lose

• After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war.

  

  Barney Ross
  • War
  • Rest
  • Surrender

• In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Up
  • Work
  • Why

• I will never do a record without some sense of responsibility.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Responsibility
  • Never
  • Will

• I think golf is literally an addiction. I'm surprised there's not Golf Anonymous.

  

  Larry David
  • Think
  • Golf
  • Addiction

• My father taught me many important giving lessons, but two stand out. First, always give as much as you possibly can. And second, give equally from among your resources - your time, your mind and your capital. These are principles I live by.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Time
  • Important
  • Live

• Writing is a very intimate thing, especially when you write lyrics and sing them in front of someone for the first time. It's like a really embarrassing situation. To me, singing is almost like crying, and you have to really know someone before you can start crying in front of them.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Singing

• I can pretty much tell the whole story through my eyes. Some of the best actors that you watch don't have to physically do too much.

  

  Parminder Nagra
  • Pretty
  • Eyes
  • Story

• I think that when you're an actress, you have to think about what kind of a role model you're going to be. I hope that I'm a good role model for young girls. I'm not going to, if people still want me in their movies, I don't want to be one of these girls who goes around partying every night and is in rehab. I don't want to do that.

  

  Saoirse Ronan
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Night

• It takes a little bit more mentally to figure out what I need to do to be most effective. The game is ever evolving. So you have to constantly pay attention to the change because you don't want to be left behind.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Game
  • Want
  • Change

• So, when you divide the world into music lovers, music fans and then those people who are just very casual about their music, it's wallpaper to them, it's elevator music, it's just the thing that's playing in the background that helps them through their day.

  

  Michael Stipe R.E.M.
  • People
  • World
  • Music

• I'm surrounded by young and beautiful people. I hate looking at ugliness.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Hate

• Honestly, I think we should be delighted people still want to read, be it on a Kindle or a Nook or whatever the latest device is.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • People
  • Think
  • Want