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" It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. "
J. K. Rowling
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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 will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter. "
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" I'm an emotional person. "
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" I am the freest author in the world. "
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" I just hate meetings. Though it's true that once you've made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don't want to seize every opportunity to do so. "
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" Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike. "
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" It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live. "
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" The best of us must sometimes eat our words. "
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" If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write. "
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" I don't need to publish to make a living. "
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" The first story I finished was when I was six years old. "
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" Honestly, I think we should be delighted people still want to read, be it on a Kindle or a Nook or whatever the latest device is. "
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" I'm pro Union. "
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" I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity. "
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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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" I think you're working and learning until you die. "
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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 would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had. "
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" 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. "
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" When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance. "
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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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" Failure means a stripping away of the inessential. "
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" I think I've really exhausted the magical. It was a lot of fun, but I've put it behind me for the time being. "
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" I would always want printed books. "
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" I think you could ask 10 English people the same question about class and get a very different answer. "
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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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" Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world. "
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" Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because 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 into finishing the only work that mattered to me. "
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" Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun. "
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" There's no formula. "
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