Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

announced that the final instalment of the series Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows would be filmed in two segments with part one being released in November 2010 and part two being released in July 2011. She admits to being "thin-skinned" and dislikes the fickle nature of reporting. Profits from the event were donated to the Haven Foundation a charity that aids artists and performers left uninsurable and unable to work and the medical NGO Médecins Sans Frontières.

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