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J. K. Rowling: 'Whatever the reviewers feel about 'The Casual Vacancy', it is what I wanted it to be, and you can't say fairer than that as a writer.'

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J. K. Rowling: 'I feel 80% of my life is completely normal.'

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J. K. Rowling: 'I pay a lot of tax, and I feel, one of the reasons I stay and pay why I'm not based in Monaco... I think my country helped me.'

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J. K. Rowling: 'Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.'

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J. K. Rowling: 'I'm not a natural joiner.'

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J. K. Rowling: 'The first story I finished was when I was six years old.'

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J. K. Rowling: 'If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work.'

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J. K. Rowling: 'I don't think I am evangelical in my work.'

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Ian Mckellen: 'Gandalf is in Middle-earth to keep an eye on everybody, and that can be a rather serious matter.'

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Ian Mckellen: 'The wonderful thing about modern medicine is that so many of these complaints that used to signify old age and decline can be coped with.'

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Ian Mckellen: 'If you've got Mystique as your girlfriend the fun you could have in bed - I've just imagined X-Men 3 might open with me in bed with Patrick Stewart.'

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Ian Mckellen: 'Gandalf is ever-present in my life. I like it.'

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Ian Mckellen: 'Why do you act? You act for an audience. In the theatre, you're in their presence. Film stars don't know what it is to have an audience.'

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Ian Mckellen: 'There are still times in my life where I pull back from being totally honest, and I can't imagine a single straight person who would understand that.'

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Ian Mckellen: 'If I say often enough that I'm going to be in 'King Kong,' I'm hoping that Peter Jackson will take the hint.'

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Ian Mckellen: 'I'm the sort of person who doesn't write in ink. I only write in pencil, so it can be rubbed out.'

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Ian Mckellen: 'Gandalf the Grey was always the guy I prefer. Gandalf the White was driven to do a particular job, whereas Gandalf the Grey is a bit more humane.'

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Ian Mckellen: 'I was brought up in industrial south Lancashire, down the cobbled road from where LS Lowry (1887 - 1976) lived and painted.'

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Ian Mckellen: 'The conventional wisdom is that if you are gay, you cannot play the romantic straight lead in a movie.'

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Ian Mckellen: 'If I was a star, it would be difficult to go off and do 'Coronation Street.' So I guess I'm not a star.'

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