"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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"Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.“
-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."
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"Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain."
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"The first crocodile I ever caught was at nine years of age, and it was a rescue."
-Steve Irwin
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"Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age."
-Anne Tyler
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"Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community."
-Brigham Young
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"If there is anything I would do differently in my life, it is that I would study business more. I'm trying to teach my daughter Chloe at an early age about investing and money so she's not afraid of it."
-Donna Mills
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"What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine."
-Thomas More
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"In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied."
-Rowan D. Williams
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