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J.K. Rowling

Novelist and screenwriter

United Kingdom · b. 1965

British novelist, author of the seven Harry Potter novels and, under the name Robert Galbraith, of the Cormoran Strike crime series. Before publishing her first novel she worked in the African research department at Amnesty International's London headquarters.

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What advice would you give your twenty-year-old self, and what should they ignore?

So given a Time Turner, I would tell my 21-year-old self that personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a check-list of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and older who confuse the two. Life is difficult, and complicated, and beyond anyone’s total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

Recorded Harvard University Commencement, 2008, Harvard Gazette, 5 June 2008 source

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