J. K. Rowling Quotes

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.

J. K. Rowling

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: July 31, 1965

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I remember going to the audition for 'Corrie.' I wasn't an actor - what they're often looking for in these rooms is a character, not what's on the page. They want to see what you are going to bring. So somehow, I got the job on 'Corrie.' For the first time in a while, someone really believed in me.

Joe Gilgun

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It's sacred for an actor to keep their personal life personal.

Jennifer Carpenter

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In 1905, I was privileged to be given a place in the private laboratory of my revered teacher, Professor W. H. Perkin, Jr. at the University of Manchester.

Robert Robinson

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You always give credit where credit is due - to high school coaches, college coaches - but my dad, the foundation that he built with me, is where all of this came from. The speed, the determination, the mindset, just the natural belief that you can do anything you put your mind to, it all comes from my dad.

Robert Griffin III

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When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Anna Letitia Barbauld

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I like playing deeper, but I'm not Casemiro.

Toni Kroos

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The work of artists is to find what's humanly possible - possibility's furthest reaches.

Tony Kushner

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I read Rumi, the 13th-century Persian poet, every day.

Mary Oliver

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It's one thing to be funny in a tweet. It is another to be funny for an hour.

Michelle Wolf

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An African woman carries heavy loads anyway. That's how we are trained; we are brought up that nothing is unbearable. I use that now, positively. I use that now to have the thick skin that I have, and not fear, and move forward, and push; and push forward.

Joyce Banda

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All my habits through life have been singularly removed from any condition of reliance on others, and the feeling - right or wrong - that aloneness is my proper position has prevailed since my early childhood, no doubt nourished and strengthened by many and quick-following bereavements.

Dorothea Dix

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I train six to seven hours every single day. I wake up six days a week and know that it's going to be the same thing.

Bryan Clay

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