Joanne Rowling Quotes
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We can help a whole lot of people if we could figure out a way to expand Medicaid and get people the care that they need.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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There's nothing more marvelously wintery than orange root veg mash; some butter is all it needs.
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I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.
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You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.
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I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.
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I've always thought that we are what we remember, and the less we remember, the less we are.
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I was thinking about how we're so in touch with our image now. That conception of ourselves, in a very physical sense, can be oppressive. You find people wanting to be in dark places, not really see themselves, see themselves as a filtered image. A curated image.
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I buy way too many books.
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I wanted to be a comedian, and this is what I'm doing. If I can keep this going, I'm happy.
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People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.
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I also have intense relationships with furniture... probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.
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True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely.
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When I saw how people would react and be touched by my voice, this was the moment I thought maybe there's something more to this than just singing around the house.
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Choose to focus your time, energy and conversation around people who inspire you, support you and help you to grow you into your happiest, strongest, wisest self.
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Fundamental preparation is always effective. Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak.
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What I learned for myself... is that no matter what the circumstances, people survive.
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If a parricide is more wicked than anyone who commits homicide-because he kills not merely a man but a near relative-without doubt worse still is he who kills himself, because there is none nearer to a man than himself.
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But I've always been fascinated with that prettiest-girl-in-the-class person that I never was, getting inside her head and showing that she's just as tormented and messed up as everybody else.
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A lot of people think that to make it as a model you just need to be pretty and slim, but they're wrong. There's a lot of hard work involved. You have to be very focused, know what kind of work you're aiming for.
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My dream job was to work in an ice cream shop. Two weeks and five pounds later, I realized it wasn't for me. For many years, I had planned to be a corporate lawyer. As luck would have it, other than a summer internship, I didn't end up doing that either.
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I believe in hard work and luck, and that the first often leads to the second.
