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“The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.”
Joanne Kathleen Rowling
“Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.”
Joanne Kathleen Rowling
“I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”
Joanne Kathleen Rowling
“His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.”
Joanne Kathleen Rowling
“If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.”
Joanne Kathleen Rowling
“The best of us must sometimes eat our words.”
Joanne Kathleen Rowling
“There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.”
Joanne Kathleen Rowling
“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”
Joanne Kathleen Rowling
“What's coming will come and we'll just have to meet it when it does.”
Joanne Kathleen Rowling
“You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.”
Joanne Kathleen Rowling
“Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.”
Joanne Kathleen Rowling
“I really don't believe in magic.”
Joanne Kathleen Rowling
“There's no formula.”
Joanne Kathleen Rowling
“I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.”
Joanne Kathleen Rowling
“Of all the subjects on this planet, I think my parents would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology to securing the keys to an executive bathroom.”
Joanne Kathleen Rowling
“Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.”
Joanne Kathleen Rowling
“Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.”
Joanne Kathleen Rowling
“Don't make an opinion on me if you don't know nothin' about me.”
Lil Wayne
“I always believe that to be the best, you have to smell like the best, dress like the best, act like the best. When you throw your trash in the garbage can, it has to be better than anybody else who ever threw trash in the garbage can.”
Lil Wayne
“I like people that enjoy life, 'cause I do the same.”
Lil Wayne
“Don't judge me. You wanna judge me, put on a black gown and get a gavel. Get in line with the rest of them that's about to judge me. I got court dates every other month. It's me against the world - that's how I feel.”
Lil Wayne
“I am very humble, and I am very gracious and very grateful for everything that happens to me and about me and around me.”
Lil Wayne
“I look at things as 'Everything is meant to be.'”
Lil Wayne
“Hate is only a form love that hasn't found a way to express itself logically.”
Lil Wayne
“I believe in God and his son, Jesus.”
Lil Wayne
“I like being misunderstood.”
Lil Wayne
“I want to be a skater.”
Lil Wayne
“Life is a lot like skateboarding.”
Lil Wayne
“A lot of women don't know how to love because there's deep reasons for them not knowing how to love. And what I mean by deep reasons is deep and dark reasons.”
Lil Wayne
“Honestly, I don't listen to nobody else's music but my own. It's kind of like sports to me. You don't see Kobe Bryant at a LeBron James game - he just works on his own game. And that's what I do. I only listen to me, so I can criticize and analyze and all those things.”
Lil Wayne