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I am not a particularly thick-skinned person.
Joanne Rowling -
I have spied for you and lied for you, put myself in mortal danger for you. Everything was supposed to be to keep Lily Potter’s son safe. Now you tell me you have been raising him like a pig for slaughter —
Joanne Rowling -
Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with.
Joanne Rowling -
She seemed to think that one of the perks of marriage was that it gave you rights of comment and intrusion over single people's love lives.
Joanne Rowling -
I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you're well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they're used to seeing me walking around, so I don't think I'm a very big deal.
Joanne Rowling -
George: "I can't see anyone trying to bump off a quidditch team." Fred: "Wood might've done the Slytherins if he could've got away with it.
Joanne Rowling
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I love a good Dorothy L. Sayers.
Joanne Rowling -
And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.
Joanne Rowling -
Unlike any other creature on this planet, humans can learn and understand, without having experienced. They can think themselves into other people's places. We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.
Joanne Rowling -
Another ten points from Gryffindor,” said Snape. “I would expect nothing more sophisticated from you, Ronald Weasley, the boy so solid he cannot Apparate half an inch across a room.
Joanne Rowling -
I'm opposed to fundamentalism in any form.
Joanne Rowling -
Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.
Joanne Rowling
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Snape's patronus was a doe,' said Harry, 'the same as my mother's because he loved her for nearly all of his life, from when they were children.
Joanne Rowling -
I'm not anti-middle-class in the slightest. Look at me! I am very pro people putting time and money and effort into trying to improve the world.
Joanne Rowling -
I received free health care.
Joanne Rowling -
To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
Joanne Rowling -
We do stigmatise teens a lot and see them as scary and alien.
Joanne Rowling -
Of course we still want to know you!" Harry said, staring at Hagrid. "You don't think anything that Skeeter cow - sorry, Professor," he added quickly, looking at Dumbledore. "I have gone temporarily deaf and haven't any idea what you said, Harry," said Dumbledore, twiddling his thumbs and staring at the ceiling.
Joanne Rowling
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However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.
Joanne Rowling -
Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
Joanne Rowling -
I'm an emotional person.
Joanne Rowling -
This is not about money or anything other than the pleasure of reading for people who want to read it.
Joanne Rowling