Harry Potter Quotes - Page 5

• I don't go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational Harry Potter, Potters, Trouble

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• It is my belief... that the truth is generally preferable to lies.

  J. K. Rowling

  Lying, Inspirational Harry Potter, Deceit

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• Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have.

  J. K. Rowling

  Mean, Emotional, Funny Harry Potter

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• Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Life, Depression

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• It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.

  J. K. Rowling

  Life, Inspiring, Death

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• We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.

  J. K. Rowling

  Life, Inspiration, Abortion

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• Next time there’s a ball, ask me before someone else does, and not as a last resort!

  J. K. Rowling

  Doe, Balls, Lasts

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• Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!

  J. K. Rowling

  Music, Magic, Magic Harry Potter

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• 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

  Senior, Writing, Years

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• If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.

  J. K. Rowling

  Long, Cabins, Popularity

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• For instance, this new idea that You-Know-Who can kill with a single glance from his eyes. That’s a basilisk, listeners. One simple test: Check whether the thing that’s glaring at you has got legs. If it has, it’s safe to look into its eyes, although if it really is You-Know-Who, that’s still likely to be the last thing you ever do.

  J. K. Rowling

  Eye, Simple, Ideas

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• The thing about growing up with Fred and George," said Ginny thoughtfully, "is that you sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Growing Up, Thinking

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• It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the two ways, but Dumbledore knew - and so do I, thought Harry, with a rush of fierce pride, and so did my parents - that there was all the difference in the world.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Life Lesson, Pride

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• Everyone queue up!' Malfoy roared to the crowd. 'Harry Potter's giving out signed photos!

  J. K. Rowling

  Giving, Potters, Crowds

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• I see a light in the kitchen. Let us not deprive Molly any longer of the chance to deplore how thin you are.

  J. K. Rowling

  Light, Kitchen, Chance

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• Why are they all staring?" demanded Albus as he and Rose craned around to look at the other students. "Don’t let it worry you," said Ron. "It’s me. I’m extremely famous.

  J. K. Rowling

  Humor, Worry, Rose

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• When he straightened up again, there were six Harry Potters gasping and panting in front of him. Fred and George turned to each other and said together, "Wow -- we're identical!

  J. K. Rowling

  Together, Wow, Six

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”, p.52, Pottermore

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• Harry: This book belongs to Harry Potter. Ron: Shared by Ron Weasley, because his fell apart. Hermione: Why don't you buy a new one then? Ron: Write on your own book, Hermione. Hermione: You bought all those dungbombs on Saturday. You could have bought a new book instead. Ron: Dungbombs rule.

  J. K. Rowling

  Book, Writing, Potters

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• There is visual illiteracy with text-oriented films like bloody 'Harry Potter' and 'Lord of the Rings.'.

  Peter Greenaway

  Potters, Film, Lord

  "'You have naked bodies and genitalia, don't you? Why are you so adolescent?': Director Peter Greenaway on 'Puritan' Americans and the intense sex scenes in 'Eisenstein in Guanajuato'". Interview with Gary M. Kramer, www.salon.com. February 4, 2016.

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• I did 'Deathly Hallows' so my kids could get on the 'Harry Potter' set. They met Daniel Radcliffe, who was a darling and couldn't have been nicer to them so I'm a hero right now.

  Peter Mullan

  Hero, Kids, Potters

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• So why in the name of Merlin’s saggy left —” “Don’t talk to your mother like that.

  J. K. Rowling

  Mother, Names, Weasley

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• I was in three of the Harry Potter films without reading one of those book, quite thankfully.

  Tom Felton

  Book, Reading, Three

  "The Flash: 9 questions with Tom Felton". Interview with Ed Gross, www.empireonline.com. October 3, 2016.

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• The sixth Harry Potter film - I don't like my performance in that film at all.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Potters, Film, Performances

  "Daniel Radcliffe: 'My drive is to prove I'm not a one-trick pony'". Interview with Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. June 2, 2013.

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• I absolutely don't relate to being beaten down my whole life - I had amazing opportunities at a young age - but there is still in many, many people's minds the notion that I'll never be able to escape Harry Potter.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Opportunity, Amazing Opportunities, People

  "Daniel Radcliffe: 'My drive is to prove I'm not a one-trick pony'". Interview with Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. June 2, 2013.

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• I see myself doing Harry Potter films as long as I'm enjoying it and as long as they are going to challenge me as an actor. I want to be an actor - it's my aspiration - so I want to do other films. I want to write something and I want to direct something!

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Writing, Long, Challenges

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