It sounds so geeky, but I really do like studying and reading, and if I'm not working on 'Harry Potter,' then my greatest relaxation is to sit with a book.
As soon as you have an average game, everyone is quick to criticise and say, 'You suck; you shouldn't be playing rugby.'
It was fun playing a horrible, snotty kid in 'Harry Potter', and then playing Prince Charming where I was also singing and playing guitar, and then playing a completely different character.
Neurotechnology may benefit from questioning what kinds of low-information-content signals we can read and write before we try to upload and download consciousness.
I'll tell you, being on set on 'Harry Potter' was nerve-wracking. It was surreal to be in a room with those three kids, all of whom know exactly what they're doing.
My father's peripatetic career also gave me critical perspective when it came to my own career choices.
Twilight' has a supernatural reference to it with werewolves and vampires. 'Harry Potter' has magic. 'The Hunger Games' is about real people put into extreme situations and circumstances.
I have ambitions to set records which will be hard to chase down, like getting more than 100 caps for Ireland.
I think my form dipped after the Six Nations in 2007, from the World Cup onwards.
I have interests outside of rugby and have been cultivating them for when I do decide to hang up the boots.
In a team situation, I think the players are more inclined to give the answer they believe the psychologist is looking for rather than maybe being totally honest.
There have been a couple of things I've been involved in launching that have been a bit more public, but I've always had other things tipping away in the background.
I listen to Emmylou Harris. She's my favorite. I don't know why, but I just feel more creative with her playing.
Sticking wires into the brain is obviously rather crude. It's hard to do in animals that run around, and there is a physical limit to the number of wires that can be inserted simultaneously.
By the way, the Harry Potter series is literature, in spite of what some people might say. The way J.K. Rowling worked that world out is quite something.
But what is more, if we have succeeded in adding to the basic understanding of our universe and ourselves, we will have made a contribution to the totality of human culture.
One works in one's laboratory - one's chaotic laboratory - with students and colleagues, doing what one most wants to do - then all this happens! It is overwhelming.
You stimulate the neo-cortex, it produces a symphony. But it's not just a symphony of perception. It's a symphony of your universe. Your reality.
I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter.
Come, daddy, Harry doesn't want to talk to us right now. He's just to polite to say it"~Luna Lovegood
Successful ecologists are successful in part because they have prepared their minds to attack scientific problems using a variety of intellectual tools.
