Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.
Quote by J. K. Rowling
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Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.
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J. K. Rowling Quotes
- You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.
- I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.
- Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.
- Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.
- 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.
- Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
- I don't think I am evangelical in my work.
- The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.
- I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you're well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they're used to seeing me walking around, so I don't think I'm a very big deal.
- I think you're working and learning until you die.
Best Quotes
- The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
- My movies are unadorned, they're not particularly fancy, I think they're kind of workmanlike in some ways, focusing on the writing and the acting.
- The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.
- I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.
- I've been screaming at the top of my lungs at my family, 'Work out! Work out! Old age is coming!'
- There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it.
- The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.
- It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.
- I have a small house so I borrow everything except art, that's what I love.
- You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.