"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."
-J. K. Rowling
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"I don't think I am evangelical in my work."
-J. K. Rowling
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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."
-J. K. Rowling
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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."
-J. K. Rowling
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"The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution."
-J. K. Rowling
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"Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain."
-J. K. Rowling
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"The Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West, so was my information inadequate to help them to victory, or did it play no particular role in their failure to achieve victory?"
-Aldrich Ames
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"There's only one thing that can guarantee our failure, and that's if we quit."
-Craig Breedlove
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"Failure is not fatal victory is not success."
-Tony Richardson
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"Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure."
-Edward Eggleston
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"It really is impossible not to like him. His success was his failure."
-Arthur C. Danto
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"Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life."
-Michael Savage
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