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" I am not a particularly thick-skinned person. "
J. K. Rowling
Am
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" When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance. "
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" I knew no one who'd ever been in the public eye. "
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" Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them. "
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" I think you're working and learning until you die. "
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" I felt I had to solve everyone's problems. "
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" It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live. "
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" If ever I expected to come face to face with an angry Christian fundamentalist, it wasn't in FAO Schwarz. "
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" I'm an emotional person. "
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" Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared. "
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" I don't need to publish to make a living. "
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" The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny. "
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" Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most. "
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" 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. "
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" With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun. "
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" Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home. "
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" People ask me if there are going to be stories of Harry Potter as an adult. Frankly, if I wanted to, I could keep writing stories until Harry is a senior citizen, but I don't know how many people would actually want to read about a 65 year old Harry still at Hogwarts playing bingo with Ron and Hermione. "
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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. "
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" Death is just life's next big adventure. "
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Adventure
" You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve. "
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Start
Thinking
" I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had. "
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" Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can't really understand why it doesn't obsess everyone - I think it does really, I'm just a little more out about it. "
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" What's coming will come and we'll just have to meet it when it does. "
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" I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity. "
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" I've been asked this question so many times, do you feel you need to write a book for adults? No, I don't need to write a book for adults. "
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" The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day's work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words. "
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