Originally appeared on E! Online

Emma Watson felt it was best to take her broomstick far from Hollywood.

Indeed, although the " Harry Potter " star looks back at her work fondly, she shared insight into stepping away from acting to pursue her doctorate, admitting some aspects of the job ultimately took away from the experience.

"In some ways, I really won the lottery [with acting], and what happened to me is so unusual," Watson told Hollywood Authentic in an interview published Sept. 21. "But a bigger component than the actual job itself is the promotion and selling of that piece of work, this piece of art. The balance of that can get quite thrown off."

"I think I'll be honest and straightforward, and say: I do not miss selling things," she continued. "I found that to be

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