Joanne Rowling Quotes
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'Harry Potter' gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.
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No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn't sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours' writing. Nothing.
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I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.
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Hello, Minister!" bellowed Percy, sending a neat jinx straight at Thicknesse, who dropped his wand and clawed at the front of his robes, apparently in awful discomfort. "Did I mention I'm resigning?
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Stone dead," said Howard, as though there were degrees of deadness, and the kind that Barry Fairbrother had contracted was particularly sordid.
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I feel 80% of my life is completely normal.
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Personally, I'd have welcomed a dementor attack. A deadly struggle for my soul would have broken the monotony nicely.
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Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. … It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again. The absence of hope. That very deadened feeling, which is so very different from feeling sad. Sad hurts but it's a healthy feeling. It's a necessary thing to feel. Depression is very different.
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We shall trespass upon your aunt and uncle's hospitality only a little longer.' You will, will you?' Yes,' said Dumbledore simply, 'I shall.
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I'm not going to be murdered," Harry said out loud. "That's the spirit, dear," said his mirror sleepily.
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The success of Harry Potter has given me lots of freedom. I can pay my bills, and I don't have to prove anything to anyone anymore.
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'Tell me one last thing,' said Harry. 'Is this real? Or has this been happening inside my head?' Dumbledore beamed at him, and his voice sounded loud and strong in Harry's ears even though the bright mist was descending again, obscuring his figure. 'Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean it is not real?'
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I pay a lot of tax, and I feel, one of the reasons I stay and pay why I'm not based in Monaco... I think my country helped me.
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I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I'd written, I don't want to leave that behind.
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Seventeen, eh!" said Hagrid as he accepted a bucket-sized glass of wine from Fred. "Six years to the day we met, Harry, d’yeh remember it?" "Vaguely," said Harry, grinning up at him. "Didn’t you smash down the front door, give Dudley a pig’s tail, and tell me I was a wizard?" "I forge’ the details," Hagrid chortled.
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It is one of the most hauntingly beautiful places in the world, the history is fascinating, the men are handsome and the whisky is delicious. But don't eat the macaroni pies.
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You haven't got a letter on yours," George observed. "I suppose she thinks you don't forget your name. But we're not stupid-we know we're called Gred and Forge.
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I've never set out to teach anyone anything. It's been more of an expression of my views and feelings than sitting down and deciding 'What is today's message?' And I do think that, although I never, again, sat down consciously and thought about this, I do think judging, even for my own daughter, that children respond to that than to 'thought for the day.'
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I sometimes have a tendency to walk on the dark side.
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I think you have a moral responsibility when you've been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.
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Ron," said Hermione in a dignified voice, "you are the most insensitive wart I have ever had the misfortune to meet.
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If she could have done one thing to make absolutely sure that every single person in this school will read your interview, it was banning it!
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What do we want to be prefects for?” said George, looking revolted at the very idea. “It’d take all the fun out of life.
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How horrible. Voldemort was nowhere near as bad.