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• About Newton: Nature to him was an open book, whose letters he could read without effort.

  Albert Einstein

  Effort, Letters, Newton

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• Only three things are necessary to make life happy: the blessing of God, books , and a friend.

  Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

  Happy Life, Blessing, Three

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• W. C. Fields, a lifetime agnostic, was discovered reading a Bible on his deathbed. ''I'm looking for a loop-hole,'' he explained.

  W. C. Fields

  Bible, Reading, Religion

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• There's no point in making a film out of a great book. The book's already great. What's the point?

  Neil Jordan

  Film, Great Book, No Point

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• For me, movies should be visual. If you want dialogue, you should read a book.

  Vilmos Zsigmond

  Want, Should, Dialogue

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• Jay Harman is the quintessential biomimic, a principled inventor who sees solutions everywhere he looks in the natural world. And he looks deeply, with the soul of a student. He moves with grace from a world of waving sea kelp to the world of sustainable design, bringing nature's wisdom into the board rooms of global companies, to the design tables of the engineers and designers who make our world. This is more than a business book, more than a memoir, more than a new way to solve global challenges. It's a book about a new way to think.

  Janine Benyus

  Moving, Thinking, Sea

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• There was this billy goat at a movie studio who found and ate a can of film. When a nanny asked him how he liked it, he said, "It was all right but I liked the book better."

  Johnny Carson

  Nannies, Goats, Film

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• [The Library of Congress] is a multimedia encyclopedia. These are the tentacles of a nation.
  [Referring to the diverse holdings of the library, including motion pictures, photographs, recordings, posters and other historic objects which collectively far outnumber the books]

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Science, Library, Historic

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• Everybody writes a book too many.

  Mordecai

  Writing

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• In 1970, Americans spent about $6 billion on fast food; in 2000, they spent more than $110 billion. Americans now spend more money on fast food than on higher education, personal computers, computer software, or new cars. They spend more on fast food than on movies, books, magazines, newspapers, videos, and recorded music—combined.

  Eric Schlosser

  Car, Video, Magazines

  Eric Schlosser (2001). “Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal”, p.3, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read? So that it shall make us happy? Good God, we should also be happy if we had no books, and such books as make us happy we could, if need be, write ourselves. But what we must have are those books which come upon us like ill fortune, and distress us deeply, like the death of one we love better than ourselves; like suicide. A book must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us.

  Franz Kafka

  Happiness, Suicide, Reading

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• If there was no Bible, it would be no matter whether you could read or not. Reading other books would do you no good.

  Jupiter Hammon

  Reading, Would Be, Matter

  Jupiter Hammon, Stanley Austin Ransom (1983). “America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc

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• Language of the Gun shows why Bernard Harcourt has earned a reputation as one of our most provocative and informative analysts of the administration of criminal justice. Thoroughly interdisciplinary, he brings to bear on his subject a remarkably wide range of sources. Most striking are his probing interviews with at-risk youths which provide a fascinating and rare glimpse into how they think about guns and gun carrying. This book bristles with insight and information.

  Randall Kennedy

  Thinking, Gun, Justice

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• I recommend...bread, meat, vegetables, and beer.

  Sophocles

  Drinking, Beer, Vegetables

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• As we breathe and live, have a conversation, and you look in someone's eyes, and you see a sunset or have an argument or read a book or see a painting or whatever you do, it influences you. And as you live your art, it changes and grows just like you and your soul or whatever you want to call it. For me, it's never-ending, I call it "the organizer of chaos." That's what I do with this and I present it in a way that I dream. So basically, I'm just sharing my dreams with all of you.

  Jared Leto

  Dream, Art, Sunset

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• I was a serious comic collector and fanboy as a kid. I wanted very badly to draw comic books for a lot of my childhood and early adolescence. So when you have an unfulfilled dream like that, when years later you find yourself in a position to make a graphic novel - hell yeah, I'm going to do that.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Dream, Kids, Years

  "Anthony Bourdain swears he's a nerdy fanboy". Interview with Aaron Sagers, geekout.blogs.cnn.com. June 28, 2012.

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• If you just read the book, you're taking in the narrative, you're taking in the characters, you're understanding it in a certain way. If you make a movie it's really an act of translation.

  James Franco

  Character, Understanding, Narrative

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• If you get a chance, whenever you're traveling, do go to the local boutique comic book shop and don't buy your comics online 'cause those guys are going to go extinct, in a minute here, and we want to be able to have those experiences with our kids.

  Nicolas Cage

  Kids, Guy, Want

  "Comic-Con: Nicolas Cage, Idris Elba, and Directors Mark Neveldine/ Brian Taylor Interview GHOST RIDER: SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 27, 2011.

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• I think they're really linked. I think books and movies are going to go a long way together in the future. I think we writers are very important material for directors.

  Tatiana de Rosnay

  Thinking, Long, Important

  Source: collider.com

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• You [as an actor] have a responsibility to Jonathan's book and you have a responsibility to talk about a subject that is going to be, whether it's contentious or not, it's going t bring up a huge, emotional response from people. A lot of people will say they are ready or they're not ready.

  Stephen Daldry

  Responsibility, Emotional, People

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• I feel like it's impossible to please the hardcore comic book fans, because they'll never be happy no matter what you do.

  Megan Fox

  Fans, Matter, Impossible

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• I would much rather read a book about Ty Cobb, who was quite possibly a sociopath. It makes for more interesting copy. Some of the most memorable characters in literature were villains.

  Jonathan Weeks

  Character, Memorable, Interesting

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• My favorite part of any baseball book - and I read a lot of them - is the anecdotes. I believe there is a story within every boxscore and for me - the more outrageous the better!

  Jonathan Weeks

  Baseball, Believe, Anecdotes

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• I have always wanted to be a published author. I write baseball books because I love the sport.

  Jonathan Weeks

  Sports, Baseball, Writing

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• It's magical thinking to imagine that the reason unspeakable things are being perpetrated by younger and younger people is that they've fallen under the influence of seductive, lascivious, prurient, and violent material in books, films, television. A great deal of this type of censorship has to do with absolving parents of responsibility - parents who just plop their kids in front of the television and leave them there hour upon hour.

  John Irving

  Kids, Responsibility, Thinking

  Interview with Suzanne Herel, www.motherjones.com. May/June 1997.

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