Joanne Rowling Quotes
I have met thousands of children now, and not even one time has a child come up to me and said, 'Ms. Rowling, I'm so glad I've read these books because now I want to be a witch.'
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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In fashion, we don't often know the prices. We don't have time to go into the stores.
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The great apologist has to have lived large and wild. If he's going to kiss the world's boo-boos and make up, he'd better plant some bruises first. A master apologizer has to be a Lord Byron, a Rick in Casablanca, a Lee Atwater, anyway.
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As a child growing up, it's going to be what you're going to remember most. What you liked or not liked then is going to define who you are at the table!
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Lake Wobegon, the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve.
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Webster and I are very aloof. The two of us go and sit there by ourselves. I sit by myself in the corner with my book and the newspaper. He kind of runs around a little bit, and then he goes and sits on top of the picnic table. He never plays with other little dogs.
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I opened up every can of worms I could. I got to the place where I would peel back one layer, and then another layer, and the stuff that would come up underneath was so inspiring, it made me want to write about it.
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I have two daughters: One an open book, one a locked box. So the question of privacy is a challenging one. How much do kids need? How much should we give? How do we prepare them to live in a world where the very notion of privacy opens a generational chasm?
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I know there is a stereotype that I am naive, but I know what I want, and I know what I'm doing to get there.
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People want to know where I'm going, and I just don't ever know.
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There have been two areas identified as being vital to reading - and that's for very young children between the ages of one month and five years and for teenagers. I've been trying to find ways of approaching both groups.
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I'm not an inventor. I just want to make things better.
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We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it's not just my way or the highway.
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Children are all foreigners.
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I think the first 10 years of my daughter's life were my mother's happiest, because she could finally have carefree time with a kid.
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Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark.
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In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.
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Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.
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This is a job and Survivor is a game show. So, this is something to take seriously and work really hard at.
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I can encourage my daughter to love her body, but what really matters are the observations she makes about my relationship with my own body.
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We planted bugs, microphones, in premises which interested us in the West. We weren't too successful - I would have said unfortunately in former years, but I don't care anymore now.
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The idea that you have to pursue greatness... it's up to you; it's your life.
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I have met thousands of children now, and not even one time has a child come up to me and said, 'Ms. Rowling, I'm so glad I've read these books because now I want to be a witch.'
