J. K. Rowling quotes - page 2

There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other. (J. K. Rowling)
Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates. View quote
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Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world. View quote
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The best of us must sometimes eat our words. View quote
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If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time. View quote
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It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more. View quote
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His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof. View quote
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You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve. View quote
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Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain. View quote
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Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be. View quote
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The Potter books in general are a prolonged argument for tolerance, a prolonged plea for an end to bigotry, and I think it's one of the reasons that some people don't like the books, but I think that it's a very healthy message to pass on to younger people that you should question authority and you should not assume that the establishment or the press tells you all of the truth. (J. K. Rowling)
It's important to remember that we all have magic inside us. View quote
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The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous. I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen. Being able to sit at home in the parsonage and your books would be very famous and occasionally you would correspond with the Prince of Wales's secretary. You know I didn't think they'd rake through my bins, I didn't expect to be photographed on the beach through long lenses. I never dreamt it would impact my daughter's life negatively, which at times it has. View quote
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It would be one way to kill off the merchandising. View quote
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Canon: brown eyes, frizzy hair and very clever. White skin was never specified. Rowling loves black Hermione. View quote
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How horrible. Voldemort was nowhere near as bad. View quote
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Those who chose not to empathize enable real monsters; for without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude with it through our own apathy. View quote
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The Internet doesn't just offer opportunities for misogynistic abuse, you know. Penis enlargers can also be bought discreetly. View quote
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If I try harder I might be reincarnated as a lonely virgin hiding behind a cartoon frog. View quote
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What's comin' will come, an' we'll meet it when it does. View quote
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No story lives unless someone wants to listen. (J. K. Rowling)
Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy to finishing the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one area where I truly belonged. I was set free, because my greatest fear had been realized, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter, and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life. View quote
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If you didn't already know - and why should you? View quote
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All the time I've been researching and learning, accusations and threats from trans activists have been bubbling in my Twitter timeline. This was initially triggered by a 'like.' View quote
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If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals. View quote
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