J.K. Rowling

I've just got to this place where it's just if it costs me any part of my piece, it's just too expensive.

And of course, like.

There's opportunities that I think, wow, like that would be amazing and.

I care deeply about.

my work but I think it's just, I think I just used to completely

sacrifice myself for whatever the thing was I was trying to achieve.

And that could be a grade.

It could be a movie.

It could be promoting.

I just was obsessed with excellence and doing everything, giving my all to everything and doing it to the best of my ability.

Was obsessed with excellence and doing everything, giving my all to everything and doing it to the best of my ability.

Unless you have the right people around you that can hold that kind of level of commitment, you're going to get smashed up.

You're just going to get crushed.

And so I think now it's just a case of me being like, okay.

I know that for me to do anything, I have to have people in the room that care about me more than whatever the product is or whatever the final product is.

And if that isn't the case, I cannot be there because I'm just someone who like gives it all.

It's how I'm built.

And I think understanding that.

Of myself.

I'm not punishing myself for that, but just knowing it needs certain kinds of conditions is how...