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• More than 3,500 hardcover novels are published each year. Even the most avid reader buys fewer than one a week.

  M.J. Rose

  Book, Reading, Years

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• I'm an avid shoe fan. I got my first pair of Louboutins as a birthday gift from Jami Gertz.

  Toks Olagundoye

  Shoes, Fans, Louboutins

  "Toks Olagundoye of 'The Neighbors': 23 Things You Don't Know", abcnews.go.com.

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• The pursuit of learning is not a piece of content that can be taught. It is a value that teachers model. Only teachers who are avid, internally motivated learners can truly teach their students the joy of learning.

  Martin Haberman

  Education, Teacher, Joy

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• I was an avid swimmer and was state champ at age 12.

  Apolo Ohno

  Age, Swimmer, States

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• I am an avid follower of the news, and sometimes you just can't take any more war, any more disasters, and you want to remind yourself there's beauty in the world. I wanted to show a more poetic side to my work. It was all about... a feeling of sadness, but in a cinematic kind of way. I find beauty in melancholy.

  Alexander McQueen

  War, Sadness, Feelings

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• It's impressive when you're such a mysterious fictional character that even avid enthusiasts are debating your existence within the mythos.

  Ben Thompson

  Character, Mysterious, Existence

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• I've been an avid consumer of young adult literature since I was one, and I think some people leave that stuff behind when they become old adults, but I never did. I was always interested in the fantasy world created in those novels.

  Diablo Cody

  Thinking, People, Adults

  "Charlize Theron, Patton Oswalt, and Screenwriter Diablo Cody YOUNG ADULT Interview". collider.com. December 6, 2011.

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• I keep up with everything in terms of health, fitness, nutrition, skin care, hair, nails. Really, everything. I'm an avid reader of every women's health newsletter from every hospital in the country.

  Evelyn Lauder

  Country, Hair, Skins

  "Beauty Queen: The Evelyn Lauder Interview". Interview with Rob Haskell, www.harpersbazaar.com. July 14, 2011.

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• I have always been an avid bike rider. Even before I became an avid bike rider, I was an avid bike stealer when I was a kid. I am very educated on bikes.

  Bo Jackson

  Kids, Riders, Educated

  "The GQ&A: Bo Jackson". Interview with Lang Whitaker, www.gq.com. April 11, 2012.

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• Charles Dickens was an avid seeker of names - he read directories and looked for odd names on gravestones.

  Jane Smiley

  Names, Poetry, Literature

  Jane Smiley (2008). “13 Ways of Looking at the Novel”, p.97, Anchor

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• From early on there were two things that filled my life - music and storytelling, both of them provoked by my father. He was a jazz pianist and also a very good storyteller, an avid reader. He passed both those interests on to me.

  Athol Fugard

  Father, Two, Jazz

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• I'm an avid reader, and though it doesn't always work out in terms of relaxation, I've got to keep myself up to date with current affairs. I was a journalism student in college, and I don't feel like I can relax unless I feel informed. When people say they can't watch the news because it's too stressful, I just think, ignorance isn't bliss. It's just another way to procrastinate.

  Sophia Bush

  Ignorance, College, Thinking

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• Let us not forget that group of self-taught, outsider artists who never stepped foot in any classroom and cared less about even exhibiting, and yet ended up with an audience of avid admirers.

  Scott Kahn

  Artist, Self, Feet

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• I was an avid anime watcher until I was about 10, when I moved to manga. I think I am influenced by Osamu Tezuka's and Walt Disney's works which I watched during that time, such as Tetsuwan Atom and 101 Dalmatians.

  Akira Toriyama

  Thinking, Anime, Dalmatians

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• I'm such an avid magazine reader - music, art, beauty magazines - and I found that food and restaurants were pouring into everything I cared about. Whether it was the pop-up concept, or some mysterious mini-mall restaurant, I got swept up in the sexy romance of the food movement.

  Drew Barrymore

  Sexy, Art, Romance

  "Drew Barrymore on Making Wine, Cooking for Her Family, and Getting 'Swept Up' in the Food Movement". Interview with Alyssa Shelasky, www.bonappetit.com. July 16, 2013.

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• One of the most insidious consequences of the present burden of personal income tax is that it strips many middle class families of financial reserves & seems to lend support to campaigns for socialized medicine, socialized housing, socialized food, socialized every thing. The personal income tax has made the individual vastly more dependent on the State & more avid for state hand-outs. It has shifted the balance in America from an individual-centered to a State-centered economic & social system.

  William Henry Chamberlin

  America, Hands, Class

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• I have always liked reading biographies. It is the ideal literary genre for someone too prim, like me, to acknowledge a gossipy interest in the living - don't you hate gossips, aren't they too awful? - but avid for any nuggets from the private lives of the dead because that is perfectly respectable, an altogether worthy and informative way of spending one's time.

  Jill Tweedie

  Hate, Reading, Literary Genre

  Jill Tweedie (1980). “It's only me: pieces from a column”, Robson Books Limited

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• a bookstore is one of the few places where all the cantankerous, conflicting, alluring voices of the world co-exist in peace and order and the avid reader is as free as a person can possibly be, because she is free to choose among them.

  Jane Smiley

  Book, Order, Voice

  FaceBook post by Jane Smiley from Feb 23, 2012

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• I'm also not an avid watcher of the show ['Walking Dead'] for no good reason. I think it's obviously a great show. I think it's a good comparison [to "Zoo"], because it is this apocalyptic world we're living in Season 2 of "Zoo."

  James Wolk

  Zoos, Thinking, Walking Dead

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• Though they themselves might be as surprised as their parents and teachers to hear it said, adolescents--these poignantly thin- skinned and vulnerable, passionate and impulsive, starkly sexual and monstrously self-absorbed creatures--are, in fact, avid seekers of moral authenticity. They wish above all to achieve some realistic power over the real world in which they live while at the same time remaining true to their values and ideals.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Teacher, Real, Self

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• In fiction, I exercise my nosiness. I am as curious as my cats, and indeed that has led to trouble often enough and used up several of my nine lives. I am an avid listener. I am fascinated by other people's lives, the choices they make and how that works out through time, what they have done and left undone, what they tell me and what they keep secret and silent, what they lie about and what they confess, what they are proud of and what shames them, what they hope for and what they fear. The source of my fiction is the desire to understand people and their choices through time.

  Marge Piercy

  Lying, Cat, Exercise

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• I've always been an avid reader. Everyone in my family read a lot. Considering we were from a little town, we were pretty literate.

  John Malkovich

  Littles, Towns, My Family

  "New Again: John Malkovich". Interview with Becky Johnston, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 10, 2015.

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• Accumulating knowledge is a form of avarice and lends itself to another version of the Midas story ...man [is] so avid for knowledge that everything that he touches turns to facts; his faith becomes theology; his love becomes lechery; his wisdom becomes science; pursuing meaning, he ignores truth.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Love Is, Men, Stories

  Malcolm Muggeridge (2005). “Seeing Through the Eye: Malcolm Muggeridge on Faith”, p.152, Ignatius Press

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• I have been an avid reader since my youth. Because I also liked to play tabletop games, I soon felt the desire to make the story narrated in a book or an aspect of that story come alive in a game.

  Klaus Teuber

  Book, Games, Play

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• I'm an avid hockey fan and I've been playing for about 17 years, and somebody recently told me that the first organized hockey teams in Canada were all black. Telling those stories would be cool.

  Cuba Gooding, Jr.

  Team, Hockey, Years

  Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. January 17, 2012.

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