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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Now when I came to go up to operations, I went down to this patient's room and got down on my knees at the foot of the bed and earnestly asked the Lord to help us and to help me.
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Usually people just do their own work. But I want to deal with the place and what it means to show in a mental hospital.
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I wish it was a little easier for an actor to later go into singing and have it be accepted, but maybe I can still do it.
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Now the first step has to be taken, the step towards democracy. This step is full of risks, and requires trust on all sides. We don't know where it will lead. But if we just stand still, we will have no chance of escaping the violence.
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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.'
