Potters Quotes - Page 3

• You put a spell on the dog," I said as we left the house. "Just a small one," said Nightingale. "So magic is real," I said. "Which makes you a...what?" "A wizard." "Like Harry Potter?" Nightingale sighed. "No," he said. "Not like Harry Potter." "In what way?" "I'm not a fictional character," said Nightingale.

  Ben Aaronovitch

  Dog, Real, Character

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• If Harry Potter's so magical, why cant he cure his own eyesight and get laid. A teenage lad shouldnt need a broomstick to cling onto.

  Frankie Boyle

  Funny, Teenage, Humor

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• If you even think about asking Harry Potter for an autograph, your day ends right now.

  Jasper Fforde

  Thinking, Asking, Ends

  Jasper Fforde (2007). “Thursday Next: First Among Sequels: A Thursday Next Novel”, p.198, Penguin

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• I dream of working with iconic directors such as Tim Burton, Baz Luhrmann, Terry Gilliam and Wes Anderson - so I'm setting my sights pretty high! My perfect role would be in a fairy-tale period piece, and I'm quite upset all the Harry Potter movies have been made as I'd love to have been in those.

  Dree Hemingway

  Dream, Sight, Perfect

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• The fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength

  J. K. Rowling

  Pain, Facts, Harry Potter Movie

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• If you love Harry Potter, you're going to absolutely love this...this is the biggest box set that Warner Bros. has ever done. If it was any bigger, it'd need wheels.

  Warwick Davis

  Needs, Done, Wheels

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• Oh, he knows how to play, little bitty baby Potter.

  J. K. Rowling

  Baby, Play, Littles

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• I like playing Vernon Dursley in 'Harry Potter,' because that gives me a license to be horrible to kids. I hate the odious business of sucking up to the public.

  Richard Griffiths

  Hate, Kids, Giving

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• My point is that this Potter business has legs. It will run and run, and we must be utterly mad, as a country, to leave it to the Americans to make money from a great British invention. I appeal to the children of this country and to their Potter-fiend parents to write to Warner Bros and Universal, and perhaps, even, to the great J K herself. Bring Harry home to Britain-and if you want a site with less rainfall than Rome, with excellent public transport, and strong connections to Harry Potter, I have just the place.

  Boris Johnson

  Running, Country, Strong

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• Potter is potter's enemy, and craftsman is craftsman's rival; tramp is jealous of tramp, and singer of singer.

  Hesiod

  Jealous, Competition, Enemy

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• I have three kids who like Harry Potter so I was sort of aware of it. You can't really move from it: it's on buses, in stores, it's everywhere. One of my kids has read the books; the other two are too small but they like the movies.

  Gary Oldman

  Moving, Book, Kids

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• I've been surprised by how little criticism I've got. Harry Potter's been taking all the flak. I'm a great fan of J.K. Rowling, but the people - mainly from America's Bible Belt - who complain that Harry Potter promotes Satanism or witchcraft obviously haven't got enough in their lives. Meanwhile, I've been flying under the radar, saying things that are far more subversive than anything poor old Harry has said. My books are about killing God.

  Philip Pullman

  Book, America, People

  "The shed where God died". Interview with Steve Meacham, www.smh.com.au. December 13, 2003.

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• Twilight' has a supernatural reference to it with werewolves and vampires. 'Harry Potter' has magic. 'The Hunger Games' is about real people put into extreme situations and circumstances.

  Isabelle Fuhrman

  Real, Twilight, Games

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• Harry Potter achieved a very special act of actual magic: it made it completely acceptable for an adult to carry around, read and enjoy a childrens book.

  Maureen Johnson

  Book, Magic, Special

  "Let JK Rowling's magic dispel prejudice about her 'proper adult novel'" by Maureen Johnson, www.theguardian.com. February 27, 2012.

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• I actually have a young readers' series that I wanna do, kind of in the same lane as a Harry Potter or Narnia or Twilight. I want to write stuff like that.

  Jhene Aiko

  Twilight, Writing, Want

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• Yes, Harry Potter!” said Dobby at once, his great eyes shining with excitement. “And if Dobby does it wrong, Dobby will throw himself off the topmost tower, Harry Potter!” “There won’t be any need for that,” said Harry hastily.

  J. K. Rowling

  Eye, Shining, Dobby

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• Harry Potter is not twilight, you know; we're not selling sex.

  Emma Watson

  Sex, Hate, Twilight

  "he SUNDAY FUNNIES: Emma Watson Puts Twilight on Blast and Peter Morgan Calls Out Tony Blair" by Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. September 12, 2010.

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• As a kid, I always loved serialized books. It’s the reason why people love Harry Potter. Serialization is amazing. It works in television. It works in film and it works in books. Especially when you’re a young kid, you get attached to these characters.

  Mindy Kaling

  Book, Character, Kids

  "Mindy Kaling Talks Sex in Sweet Valley (And Other Concerns)". Interview with Sara Benincasa, www.bookish.com. November 21, 2011.

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• When I first started acting I was about nine years old. I had never been to audition in my life and my agent sent me out. It was just a commercial for 'Harry Potter.' That was the first thing I ever went out for and I got the 'Harry Potter' commercial which was really cool, but I didn't play Harry Potter.

  Alexander Ludwig

  Years, Play, Acting

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• It seems reasonable to expect that beauty will emerge from a fusion of the individual character and culture of the potter,with the nature of his materials.

  Bernard Leach

  Character, Fusion, Culture

  Bernard Leach (1962). “A potter's book”

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• For as from the same piece of clay a potter may fashion either a pot or a tile, so the Devil may shape a witch into a wolf or a cat or even a goat, without subtracting from her and without adding to her at all. For this occurs just as clay is first molded into one, then shaped into another form, for the Devil is a potter and his witches are but clay.

  Aino Kallas

  Fashion, Cat, Devil

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• Harry Potter has kindly joined us for my rebirthing party. One might go so far as to call him my guest of honor.

  J. K. Rowling

  Party, Honor, Guests

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• The one good thing is that I get a lot more good scripts coming through my letterbox. 'Vera Drake' raised my profile in one way, and then 'Harry Potter' in another.

  Imelda Staunton

  Way, Scripts, Profile

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• Harry Potter has actually been a very intimate phenomenon, the story of small groups of people acting in ways they shouldn't, doing things they usually wouldn't, and making the kind of history that, without Harry, they pretty much couldn't.

  Melissa Anelli

  People, Acting, Groups

  Melissa Anelli (2008). “Harry, A History - Now Updated with J.K. Rowling Interview, New Chapter & Photos: The True Story of a Boy Wizard, His Fans, and Life Inside the Harry Potter Phenomenon”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• How to read "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone"? Why, very quickly, to begin with, and perhaps also to make an end. Why read it? Presumably, if you cannot be persuaded to read anything better, Rowling will have to do.

  Harold Bloom

  Stones, Ends, Ifs

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