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" You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve. "

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" I would always want printed books. "

" Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world. "

" I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had. "

" It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. "

" 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. "

" Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends. "

" I'm pro Union. "

" There's no formula. "

" I like to get in among a set of people and get to know them very well. "

" 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. "

" I always felt an outsider. "

" You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience. "

" 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. "

" I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity. "

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" It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default. "

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Measure Of A Man

" I knew no one who'd ever been in the public eye. "

" Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be. "

" I'm interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society. We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term it's quite a satisfying thing to do, isn't it? "

" The internet has been a boon and a curse for teenagers. "

" I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you're well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they're used to seeing me walking around, so I don't think I'm a very big deal. "