Joanne Rowling Quotes
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I loved the world of imagination.
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Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals.
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I wasn't a visionary but I literally had my finger on the pulse of the women of America.
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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.
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I've always loved working out. When I was little, my dad used to make me and my sister do 10 press-ups every day before we brushed our teeth in the morning. It was like a boot camp! Then I did a lot of athletics at school and was a dancer.
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If it's hard for Blue America to see Red America as anything other than a bunch of dumb, racist rednecks; it's hard for Red America to recognize that many minorities are legitimately worried about what a Trump presidency means for their family.
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.
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I wish it were not a sin to have liked it so.
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In the '60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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It's a massive consumer frustration around the world about how long they have to wait after the U.S. to see television shows and movies. In the U.S., there's the frustration of having to wait a year to watch a movie in the format that you choose.
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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.
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Christlike communications are expressions of affection and not anger, truth and not fabrication, compassion and not contention, respect and not ridicule, counsel and not criticism, correction and not condemnation. They are spoken with clarity and not with confusion. They may be tender or they may be tough, but they must always be tempered.
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I can paint in jail.
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After all those years in Asia, I don't have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and - Boom! - people go.
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Boxing is real easy. Life is much harder.
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I've always been excited by rotoscoping, the technique used in films like 'Waking Life,' which fuses animation with real-life emotion. It seemed like it was a process ripe for innovation.
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And you can't complain about kissing Emma Watson. Isn't that what everyone in the world wants to do? I've known Emma for a few years. She's this amazing capacity of young and vibrant and brilliant, but also a bright, intelligent old soul.
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Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts.
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A solid family, as they say. They join me on location if they have a chance, but I can also be home three or four months doing nothing, so I probably see my kids more than people who work constantly all year long. If that changes, we'll have to have a family meeting.
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When I’m taking a picture of Aya Sofia, what counts is the person passing by who stands for life.
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I breathe martial arts every day of my life.
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I don't ever want to get boxed in, playing the same characters, over and over again. That's why I prefer features over television.
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I want to be a student for life.
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I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.
