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- Poverty is a lot like childbirth - you know it is going to hurt before it happens, but you'll never know how much until you…
- Years ago someone wrote [about me]: 'She characterizes Molly Weasley as a mother who is only at home looking after the children.' I was deeply…
- Yes, it has made me happier. Finishing them has made me happier. Before I wrote the Potter books, I'd never finished a novel. I came…
- I want to fall in love with something in the way I fell in love with the idea of Harry before I write anything else.
- Often, you have to fail as a writer before you write that bestselling novel or ground-breaking memoir. If you're failing as a writer - which…
- Her round, mascara-streaked face looked back at him out of the rear window. He forced a grin and a wave before lighting another cigarette, and…
- Nobody's ever asked me to a party before, as a friend. Is that why you dyed your eyebrow, for the party? Should I do mine…
- For future reference, Harry, it is raspberry...although of course, if I were a Death Eater, I would have been sure to research my own jam…
- I took a wrong turn on the way to the bathroom and found myself in a beautifully proportioned room I had never seen before, containing…
- But before he went loopy he was the life and soul of the party," said Fred. "He used to down an entire bottle of firewhiskey,…
- Do you remember me telling you we are practicing non-verbal spells, Potter?" "Yes," said Harry stiffly. "Yes, sir." "There's no need to call me "sir"…
- Does it hurt?" The childish question had escaped Harry's lips before he could stop it. "Dying? Not at all," said Sirius. "Quicker and easier than…
- Holey? You have the the whole world of ear-related humor before you, you go for holey?
- You have to resign yourself to the fact that you waste a lot of trees before you write anything you really like, and that's just…
- And tears came before he could stop them, boiling hot then instantly freezing on his face, and what was the point in wiping them off?…
- We'll be there, Harry," said Ron "What?" "At your Aunt and Uncle's house," said Ron, "And then we'll go with you wherever you're going." "No-"…
- But if it matters to you, you'll be able to choose Gryffindor over Slytherin. The Sorting Hat takes your choice into account." "Really?" "It did…
- So then I thought, I'd like you to have something to remember me by, you know, if you ever meet some veela when you're off…
- Ooh, you look much tastier than Crabbe and Goyle, Harry" said Hermione, before catching sight of Ron's raised eyebrows, blushing slightly and saying "oh you…
- Slowly, very slowly, he sat up, and as he did so he felt more alive, and more aware of his own living body than ever…
- Go on, have a pasty," said Harry, who had never had anything to share before or, indeed, anyone to share it with. It was a…
- Somewhere out in the darkness, a phoenix was singing in a way Harry had never heard before: a stricken lament of terrible beauty. And Harry…
- There are plenty of eyewitness accounts, just because you're so narrow-minded you need to have everything shoved under your nose before you-
- No, thanks," said Harry. "The toilet's never had anything as horrible as your head down it— it might be sick." Then he ran, before Dudley…
- Next time there’s a ball, ask me before someone else does, and not as a last resort!
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- Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in… — Aristophanes
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. — Richard Bach
- The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. — Karen Armstrong
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas… — Andrea Arnold
- I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was… — Bella Abzug
- If you're paid before you walk on the court, what's the point in playing as if your life depended on it? — Arthur Ashe
- Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot… — Rowan Atkinson
- Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel. — David Attenborough
- Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe… — Margaret Atwood