"I've only suffered writer's block badly once, and that was during the writing of Chamber of Secrets. I had my first burst of publicity about the first book and it paralysed me. I was scared the second book wouldn't measure up, but I got through it!"

-- J. K. Rowling

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“Some people here think they donâ€™t have to breastfeed, and I think, â€˜Are you going to give chemical food to your child, when they are so little?â€™ There should be a worldwide law, in my opinion, that mothers should breastfeed their babies for six months.”
“I had fun. Thatâ€™s what I believe in. Fun, flings, the sizzle. It starts as a shiver, when you see a man for the first time. And then he meets your eye and the shiver runs down your back and becomes a sizzle in your stomach and you think 'I want to dance with that man.' You dance, you have a cocktail or two, you flirt.”
“In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence, bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to go by other pressures.”

Source : Carroll Quigley (1966). “Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time”, G S G & Associates Pub
“After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.”
“When the second record came out, they started calling it The Band. I voted to call it The Crackers. I'm no fool.”
“I always say I have a Socratic approach to most things that I do. I pummel people with questions, because I need to know what they're thinking, what they're trying to achieve, what they believe the final outcome is going to be.”
“I try to avoid calling myself a poet because I think that's something someone else has to call you. It's like bragging.”
“Every child can learn, and we mean it... excuses are not good enough, we need results.”

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