J. K. Rowling Frases famosas
Variante: Eu encontrei outro dia o meu contador e disse: ‘Estão dizendo que sou mais rica que a rainha (da Grã-Bretanha), então isso significa que você desviou um monte de dinheiro’.
Fonte: BBC Brasil http://www.bbc.co.uk/portuguese/cultura/story/2003/06/030620_rowlingro.shtml, em 20 de junho, 2003.
Fonte: Site do UOL Últimas Notícias http://noticias.uol.com.br/ultnot/2006/08/01/ult26u22070.jhtm, de 01/08/2006 - 16h37
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J. K. Rowling frases e citações
“Ele avançou de joelhos e beijou a barra das vestes de Voldemort.”
Harry Potter e o Cálice de fogo, ROCCO LTDA, p. 516.
“Nem Dumbledore nem Harry falaram por algum tempo.”
Harry Potter e o Cálice de fogo, ROCCO LTDA, p. 478.
“Harry e Hermione caíram na gargalhada e, sentindo-se mais animados, foram almoçar.”
Harry Potter e o Cálice de fogo, ROCCO LTDA, p. 295.
“OS alunos de Beauxbatons entravam no castelo, vindo dos jardins, entre eles a garota Veela.”
Harry Potter e o Cálice de fogo, ROCCO LTDA, p. 211.
“As pernas da aranha se descontraíram, mas ela continuou a se contorcer.”
Harry Potter e o Cálice de fogo, ROCCO TLDA, P. 173.
Harry Potter e o Cálice de fogo, ROCCO TLDA, P. 84.
Harry Potter e o Cálice de fogo, ROCCO TLDA, P. 62.
J. K. Rowling: Frases em inglês
2000s
Contexto: Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. … It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again. The absence of hope. That very deadened feeling, which is so very different from feeling sad. Sad hurts but it's a healthy feeling. It's a necessary thing to feel. Depression is very different.
As quoted in "J. K. Rowling : The Interview," by Ann Treneman in The Times (30 June 2000) http://www.accio-quote.org/articles/2000/0600-times-treneman.html
J. K. Rowling, as quoted in Harry Potter's Bookshelf : The Great Books Behind the Hogwarts Adventures (2009) by John Granger <!-- also partly in Biography Today : Profiles of People of Interest to Young Readers Vol. 17, Issue 1 (2008), p. 142 -->
2000s
Contexto: I think most of us if you were asked to name a very evil regime would think of Nazi Germany. … I wanted Harry to leave our world and find exactly the same problems in the Wizarding world. So you have to the intent to impose a hierarchy, you have bigotry, and this notion of purity, which is a great fallacy, but it crops up all over the world. People like to think themselves superior and that if they can pride themselves on nothing else, they can pride themselves on perceived purity. … The Potter books in general are a prolonged argument for tolerance, a prolonged plea for an end to bigotry, and I think it's one of the reasons that some people don't like the books, but I think that it's a very healthy message to pass on to younger people that you should question authority and you should not assume that the establishment or the press tells you all of the truth.
Harvard address (2008)
Online tweet, in response to an extremely depressed person contemplating https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/595148783056527360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.etonline.com%2Fnews%2F163965_jk_rowling_sends_beautiful_message_to_fan_who_wants_to_finally_give_up%2F suicide, as quoted in "J.K. Rowling Sends Beautiful Message to Fan Who Wants to 'Finally Give Up'" by Alex Ungerman ET Online (5 May 2015) http://www.etonline.com/news/163965_jk_rowling_sends_beautiful_message_to_fan_who_wants_to_finally_give_up/
2010s
“I don't think I've ever wanted magic more.”
Tweet https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/746192965568077824 quoted in "J.K. Rowling Wishes Magic Could Get U.K. Out of Brexit" http://time.com/4381196/j-k-rowling-brexit-magic-tweet/ by Amanda Calvo, Time (24 June 2016)
2010s
J. K. Rowling, as quoted in Harry Potter's Bookshelf : The Great Books Behind the Hogwarts Adventures (2009) by John Granger <!-- also partly in Biography Today : Profiles of People of Interest to Young Readers Vol. 17, Issue 1 (2008), p. 142 -->
2000s
Contexto: I think most of us if you were asked to name a very evil regime would think of Nazi Germany. … I wanted Harry to leave our world and find exactly the same problems in the Wizarding world. So you have to the intent to impose a hierarchy, you have bigotry, and this notion of purity, which is a great fallacy, but it crops up all over the world. People like to think themselves superior and that if they can pride themselves on nothing else, they can pride themselves on perceived purity. … The Potter books in general are a prolonged argument for tolerance, a prolonged plea for an end to bigotry, and I think it's one of the reasons that some people don't like the books, but I think that it's a very healthy message to pass on to younger people that you should question authority and you should not assume that the establishment or the press tells you all of the truth.
“They see it for what it is… It is a fantasy world and they understand that completely.”
As quoted in "Success of Harry Potter bowls author over" at CNN.com (21 October 1999) http://www.cnn.com/books/news/9910/21/rowling.intvu/; also quoted in "Urban Legends Reference Pages : Harry Potter" at Snopes.com http://www.snopes.com/humor/iftrue/potter.asp
1990s
Contexto: I absolutely did not start writing these books to encourage any child into witchcraft. … I'm laughing slightly because to me, the idea is absurd.
I have met thousands of children now, and not even one time has a child come up to me and said, "Ms. Rowling, I'm so glad I've read these books because now I want to be a witch." They see it for what it is... It is a fantasy world and they understand that completely.
“Dumbledore knows pretty much everything anyway, but that Hermione has read it somewhere.”
Interview by Lizo Mzimba (February 2003) <!-- published where? -->
2000s
Contexto: If you need to tell your readers something … there are only two characters that you can put it convincingly into their dialogue. One is Hermione, the other is Dumbledore. In both cases you accept, it's plausible that they have, well Dumbledore knows pretty much everything anyway, but that Hermione has read it somewhere. So, she's handy.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 London Premiere (July 2011)
2010s
Paraphrased variant: We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.
Harvard address (2008)
“If I try harder I might be reincarnated as a lonely virgin hiding behind a cartoon frog.”
January 2017 tweet, as reported by Ian Cheong of Heat Street https://heatst.com/entertainment/harry-potter-author-j-k-rowling-calls-trump-supporter-a-lonely-virgin/
2010s
Interview by Lizo Mzimba (February 2003) <!-- published where? -->
2000s
To screenwriter Steve Kloves, in an interview by Lizo Mzimba (February 2003)
2000s
8 May 2015 tweet, according to Hollywood Reporter http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jk-rowling-burns-twitter-troll-794521
2010s
"For Girls Only, Probably..." at her website in "Section: Extra Stuff" http://www.jkrowling.com/textonly/en/extrastuff_view.cfm?id=22.
2000s
“How horrible. Voldemort was nowhere near as bad.”
Remarks on Donald Trump, in a Tweet (8 December 2015) https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/674196610683940864; also quoted in "Harrison Ford has a few words for Donald Trump" by Adam Boult in The Telegraph (10 December 2015) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/donald-trump/12043321/Harrison-Ford-has-a-few-words-for-Donald-Trump.html
2010s
“No story lives unless someone wants to listen.”
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 London Premiere (July 2011)
2010s
Tweet https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/678888094339366914?lang=en quoted in " J.K. Rowling angry about black Hermione complaints https://www.cnn.com/2016/06/06/entertainment/jk-rowling-hermione-cursed-child/index.html" by Lisa Respers France, CNN (June 6, 2016)
2010s
“It would be one way to kill off the merchandising.”
On the possibility of killing Harry in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, as quoted in 'Harry is a lot, lot, lot angrier in this book' in The Telegraph (20 June 2003)
2000s
As quoted in an interview with Jeremy Paxman, on Newsnight, as quoted in 'Harry is a lot, lot, lot angrier in this book' in The Telegraph (20 June 2003) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/fictionreviews/3596993/Harry-is-a-lot-lot-lot-angrier-in-this-book.html)
2000s
“I don't believe in magic, either.”
As quoted in "Success of Harry Potter bowls author over" at CNN.com (21 October 1999)
1990s
“If you didn't already know — and why should you?”
"TERF" is an acronym coined by trans activists, which stands for Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist. In practice, a huge and diverse cross-section of women are currently being called TERFs and the vast majority have never been radical feminists. Examples of so-called TERFs range from the mother of a gay child who was afraid their child wanted to transition to escape homophobic bullying, to a hitherto totally unfeminist older lady who's vowed never to visit Marks & Spencer again because they're allowing any man who says they identify as a woman into the women's changing rooms. Ironically, radical feminists aren't even trans-exclusionary — they include trans men in their feminism, because they were born women.
But accusations of TERFery have been sufficient to intimidate many people, institutions and organisations I once admired, who're cowering before the tactics of the playground. "They'll call us transphobic!" "They'll say I hate trans people!" What next, they'll say you've got fleas? Speaking as a biological woman, a lot of people in positions of power really need to grow a pair (which is doubtless literally possible, according to the kind of people who argue that clownfish prove humans aren't a dimorphic species).
2020s, Reasons for Speaking out on Sex and Gender Issues (10 June 2020)
When I started taking an interest in gender identity and transgender matters, I began screenshotting comments that interested me, as a way of reminding myself what I might want to research later. On one occasion, I absent-mindedly 'liked' instead of screenshotting. That single 'like' was deemed evidence of wrongthink, and a persistent low level of harassment began.
Months later, I compounded my accidental 'like' crime by following Magdalen Berns on Twitter. Magdalen was an immensely brave young feminist and lesbian who was dying of an aggressive brain tumour. I followed her because I wanted to contact her directly, which I succeeded in doing. However, as Magdalen was a great believer in the importance of biological sex, and didn't believe lesbians should be called bigots for not dating trans women with penises, dots were joined in the heads of twitter trans activists, and the level of social media abuse increased.
2020s, Reasons for Speaking out on Sex and Gender Issues (10 June 2020)
