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No story lives unless someone wants to listen. So thank you, all of you.


J.K. Rowling

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VICTORIA AVEYARD Little drops of rain Whisper of the pain Tears of love Lost in the days gone by.
ROBERT PLANT "THANK YOU" Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
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YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More...
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HARRY YOU We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f...
HARRY YOU They're all so appreciative. It's 'thank you, thank you, thank you' all the time.
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If ...
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YANN MARTEL You're all very lucky -- thank God. Someone up there loves you.
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CASSANDRA CLARE Failure wants you to succeed, if only you will listen.
JEFFREY BENJAMIN There are times that all you need is someone who will listen to you without judging you
BERNARD KELVIN CLIVE Your heart never speaks unless you listen to it.
KOWSALAPATHY Nobody will listen to you unless they sense that you like them.
DONALD MILLER It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really ca...
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XAVIER LEE People don't listen when you lecture. No one wants to be talked down to or scolded.
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JULIANA AZMI Thank you for all. I love you so much.
DORCUS INZIKURU You have no control. Who lives, who dies, who tells your story.
LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA That's the beauty of argument-if you argue correctly, you're never wrong.
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ALGIS SHALNA It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really ca...
BARBARA MANDRELL Thank you so much. You have no idea how much this means to me.
KELLY CLARKSON Life is such a gift, I just say thank you all day.
NATALIE COLE Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you, I had to get down. No more injuries right now.
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PETER HILL Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a secret.
MARY ASH Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a secret.
MARY KAY ASH All the treasure in the world is worthless, unless you have someone to share it with.
UNKNOWN It's completely anonymous. There's no way for someone to get in touch with you unless you elect to h...
MATT STRAUSS Thank you, deputy. Of course, we'll have more on this story as it continues to develop.
ERIC WADDELL Adrenaline wants to kill you...
DEYTH BANGER Never go tapping into the lives of others like you know them and their story! Their story is not you...
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE Early on, (Rowling) created characters you can relate to.
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ANNE WILSON Thank goodness for all of the things you are not!Thank goodness you're not something someone forgot,...
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SYLVAIN REYNARD If you become successful, always thank your Mentor, If you're a failure,blame yourself cause you did...
PARESH GANGARAMANI Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a secret.
MARY KAY ASH If someone ever says you’re weird, say thank you.
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PHILIPPA GREGORY When you are rich and powerful, no one will challenge you to your face or give you a chance to expla...
AMANDA QUICK Thank you for all the love you gave me. There could be no one stronger. Thank you for the many beaut...
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DEMI LOVATO Unless you create your own future, you are a slave to someone elses
ALAN MARSDEN Unless you are pushing three million albums, you are going to owe someone.
GREG DULLI Declare today “sacred time”—off-limits to everyone, unless invited by you. Take care of your p...
OPRAH WINFREY Sometimes we forget to say thank you to all the people which have helped and supported us. A BIG Tha...
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JOHN LASSETER Vital lives are about action. You can't feel warmth unless you create it, can't feel delight until y...
JOAN ERICKSON I wanted you to thank you for being my friend and letting me play a part in your story.
CHRISTOPHER PIKE If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story.
TERRY PRATCHETT No one but me ever put a hand on me to feel that baby. No one wanted to put his ear against it and l...
JOHN IRVING No, no, you listen,
JAMES LONG Wherever I go, I'll always see you. You'll always be with me. And there's no happy ending coming her...
ELIZABETH SCOTT You wanna make someone believe you, share the story of your life!
ARDIT BALISHA All the so-called "secrets of success" will not work unless you do.
UNKNOWN “All the so-called "secrets of success" will not work unless you do.”
JAYMIN SHAH You are not writing properly unless someone is bleeding, probably you.
ROBERT GALBRAITH When you least expect it, someone may actually listen to what you have to say.
MAGGIE KUHN Unless you love someone, nothing else makes sense.
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY Thank you ... I'm so grateful you're allowing me to be here. Thank you for sparing my life.
JOE WHITE First, I felt just shock, and then I felt there's no way, just no way, Dumbledore couldn't be dead, ...
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DAVID SIMON Spanx are amazing. Thank you to the inventor of that.
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J.K. ROWLING Completely forgetting about dinner, he walked slowly back up to Gryffindor tower. Cho's voice echoin...
J.K. ROWLING She’s a veela!” he said hoarsely to Harry.
“Of course she isn’t!” said Hermion...
J.K. ROWLING I was ripped from my body, I was less than spirit, less than the meanest ghost . . . but still, I wa...
J.K. ROWLING He knew one thing only, and it was beyond fear or reason: He was not going to die crouching here lik...
J.K. ROWLING You know your mother, Malfoy?” said Harry “That expression she’s got, like she’s got ...
J.K. ROWLING I hate being poor.
J.K. ROWLING As Hagrid had said, what would come would come and he would have to meet it when it did.
J.K. ROWLING Enjoying it? I don’t reckon he’d come home if Dad didn’t make him. He’s obsessed. Just don�...
J.K. ROWLING Play to your strengths."

"I haven’t got any," said Harry, before he could stop himself....
J.K. ROWLING Oh you is a bad elf, Dobby!
J.K. ROWLING No, I'm fine,' said Harry, wondering why he kept telling people this, and wondering whether he had e...
J.K. ROWLING She can't keep writing about what a tragic little hero I am, it'll get boring.
J.K. ROWLING You’re JOKING!” said Fred Weasley loudly.
The tension that had filled the Hall ever since M...
J.K. ROWLING Yeah you can have a word," said Harry savagely. "Good-bye.
J.K. ROWLING Oh, shut up Weatherby.
J.K. ROWLING Hello, Professor McGonagall,” said Moody calmly, bouncing the ferret still higher.
“What �...
J.K. ROWLING He sounds exactly like Moody," said Harry quietly, tucking the letter away again inside his robes. "...
J.K. ROWLING Harry, Cedric, I suggest you both go up to bed," said Dumbledore, smiling at both of them. "I am sur...
J.K. ROWLING Muggle women wear them, Archie, not the men, they wear these,' said the Ministry wizard, and he bran...
J.K. ROWLING Really Hagrid, if you are holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin...
J.K. ROWLING Well, I’m sure you’ll find someone somewhere who’ll have you.
J.K. ROWLING Of course we still want to know you!" Harry said, staring at Hagrid.
"You don't think anything ...
J.K. ROWLING Aaah ... when two Neptunes appear in the sky it is a sure sign that a midget in glasses is being bor...
J.K. ROWLING Wild!" Ron said, twiddling the replay knob on the side. "I can make that old bloke down there pick h...
J.K. ROWLING She should've interviewed Snape," said Harry grimly. "He'd give her the goods on me any day. "Pot...
J.K. ROWLING But Ron was staring at Hermione as though suddenly seeing her in a whole new light.
“Hermione...
J.K. ROWLING I sometimes find, and I am sure you know the feeling, that I simply have too many thoughts and memor...
J.K. ROWLING Ron's indignation on his behalf was worth about a hundred points to him.
J.K. ROWLING I have gone temporarily deaf and haven't any idea what you said, Harry.
J.K. ROWLING You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!
J.K. ROWLING I thought it sounded a bit like Percy singing... maybe you've got to attack him while he's in the sh...
J.K. ROWLING We're coming or you whether the Muggles like it or not, you can't miss the World Cup, only Mum and D...
J.K. ROWLING Well, you can't break an Unbreakable Vow...."
"I'd worked that much out for myself, funnily eno...
J.K. ROWLING Dark times lie ahead of us and there will be a time when we must choose between what is easy and wha...
J.K. ROWLING I love magic!
J.K. ROWLING Well, I can certainly see why we're trying to keep them alive. Who wouldn't want pets that can burn,...
J.K. ROWLING Love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves it's own mark. To have been loved so deeply, even t...
J.K. ROWLING He wished he could rip out his heart, his innards, everything that was screaming inside him...
J.K. ROWLING Potter wasn't such an unusual name. He was sure there were lots of people called Potter who had a so...
J.K. ROWLING I do believe something magical can happen when you read a good book
J.K. ROWLING Wandering around at midnight, Ickle Firsties? Tut, tut, tut. Naughty, naughty, you'll get caughty.
J.K. ROWLING Shooting stars all over Britain? Owls flying by daylight? Mysterious people in cloaks all over the p...
J.K. ROWLING Scars can come in handy. I have one myself above my left knee that is a perfect map of the London Un...
J.K. ROWLING Why do you live?
Because I have something worth living for.
J.K. ROWLING I am not forgotten, you know, no, I still receive a very great deal of fan mail.
. . . Gladys G...
J.K. ROWLING Oh, these people's minds work in strange ways, Petunia, they're not like you and me," said Uncle Ver...
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