J. K. Rowling Quotes

Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.

J. K. Rowling

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: July 31, 1965

Topics

MyselfPoetryMeNowWayNever

I think Maine needs people. It needs diversity. It needs to be able to respect people. Openness is crucial for this state because we don't want to be known for having the oldest state in the nation. We want young families.

John Baldacci

RespectDiversityPeopleThinkYoung

One girl who stands out was this Miami stripper. She still lives with her mother and father, and they know she strips. They call her by her stripper name, Freaky Red.

Method Man

FatherMotherGirlRedNameMiami

Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.

Stephen Gardiner

ArchitectureUnitedUnited States

I don't usually like teen novels written in the present tense, particularly those told from a first-person viewpoint. Too many writers seem to believe that using either or both devices automatically imbues their stories with deep seriousness and a contemporary feel.

Tony Bradman

TeenBelieveDeepPresentFeelSeem

The Khmer Rouge can't destroy me. I still have my imagination and am capable of making films. I am not locked up.

Rithy Panh

ImaginationI AmMeCapableUp

I hate acting when I see it. I don't want to feel it, I don't want to see it, I want to be taken away with the story - I don't want the actor's ego in front of me. That's what I try to live when I do the work.

Rutger Hauer

WorkLiveHateMeEgoStory

The miniskirt caused an extraordinarily powerful reaction. There were the people who hated it.

Mary Quant

PeoplePowerfulReactionWhoHated

I thought I'd get over being insecure if I became famous, but it hasn't happened. It just gets worse, really. You get more and more on edge, more nervous. These are all the things I'm dealing with. You think if you get famous, fear will go away and problems will go away. But they don't.

Christian Slater

FearProblemsThinkThoughtYouGo

And of course, we know that opportunity lies outside the reach of some of our people. We don't need flowery words about inequality to tell us that, and we don't need a party that has led while poverty and hunger rose to record levels to give us lectures about suffering.

Artur Davis

OpportunityWordsSufferingRose

I've had very bleak experiences in hospitals, but they were also sometimes very funny.

Peter Capaldi

FunnySometimesExperiencesBleak

On my job I end up jumping out of planes. Last week I got in an 18-wheeler and drove down a runway onto a skid track. The week before that they put me in a car and sunk me to the bottom of a lake to see if I could escape without an oxygen tank.

Rick Mercer

CarJobMeEndWeekLake

As a kid, I thought of myself as a funny person who secretly wanted to be serious, but now I think maybe I'm a serious person who secretly wants to be funny.

Noah Baumbach

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