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" I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks. "
J. K. Rowling
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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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" I am not a particularly thick-skinned person. "
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" Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young. "
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" I am the freest author in the world. "
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" There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing. "
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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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" I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels. "
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" Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun. "
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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 felt I had to solve everyone's problems. "
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" I always felt an outsider. "
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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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" I received free health care. "
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" It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. "
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" I don't need to publish to make a living. "
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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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" Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most. "
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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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" The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary. "
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" It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live. "
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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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" Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools. "
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" But I was the most unashamed lone parent you were ever going to meet. "
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