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J. K. Rowling quote: "Daddy, look? one of the gnomes actually bit me!"

Daddy, look? one of the gnomes actually bit me!

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But we still find the world astounding, we can't get enough of it; even as it shrivels, even as its many lights flicker and are extinguished (the tigers, the leopard frogs, the plunging dolphin flukes), flicker and are extinguished, by us, by us, we gaze and gaze. Where do you draw the line, between love and greed? We never did know, we always wanted more. We want to take it all in, for one last time, we want to eat the world with our eyes. Margaret Atwood
Dennis Rodman quote: "Black culture is something I don't relate to much at all."
Black culture is something I don't relate to much at all. Dennis Rodman
I loved the material when I first read it, and the experience of making the film was a great one. So when we came around to complete the trilogy, I just signed on board without even reading the scripts because the experience of the first film was so good. Keanu Reeves
There are certain times I don't want my picture taken. If my wife's stepping out of a car and it looks like it's going to come out an indecent picture, don't I have a right to object? Bobby Darin
You are determined to hate him [Snape], Harry,” said Lupin with a faint smile. “And I understand; with James as your father, with Sirius as your godfather, you have inherited an old prejudice. By all means tell Dumbledore what you have told Arthur and me, but do not expect him to share your view of the matter; do not even expect him to be surprised by what you tell him. It might have been on Dumbledore’s orders that Severus questioned Draco. J. K. Rowling
I wish to propose for the reader's favourable consideration a doctrine which may, I fear, appear wildly paradoxical and subversive. The doctrine in question is this: that it is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true. Bertrand Russell
Alicia Silverstone quote: "I'm reachable for people, I'm not out of their league. I'm..."
I'm reachable for people, I'm not out of their league. I'm just a normal girl. Alicia Silverstone
I'm really very self-confident when it comes to my work. When I take on a project, I believe in it 100%. I really put my soul into it. I'd die for it. That's how I am Michael Jackson
Donald Norman quote: "Knowing how people will use something is essential."
Knowing how people will use something is essential. Donald Norman
Sophocles quote: "Who seeks shall find."
Who seeks shall find. Sophocles
The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization. Hans Hofmann
Fiction is an act of willfulness, a deliberate effort to reconcile, to rearrange, to reconstitute nothing short of reality itself. Even among the most reluctant and doubtful of writers, this willingfulness must emerge. Being a writer means taking the leap from listening to saying, 'Listen to me'. Jhumpa Lahiri
Heather Matarazzo quote: "It doesn't matter what medium I perform, I just love to..."
It doesn't matter what medium I perform, I just love to perform in general, if it's good work. Heather Matarazzo
George Bernard Shaw quote: "Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury..."
Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! George Bernard Shaw
In rap music, even though the element of poetry is very strong, so is the element of the drum, the implication of the dance. Without the beat, its commercial value would certainly be more tenuous. Archie Shepp