Book Quotes - Page 33

• If you want to pontificate, I'm certainly willing to pontificate. That's why Joely was laughing because you don't know what you asked for. Malcolm Gladwell, in his newest book "David and Goliath," writes about how sometimes things that we think of as handicaps often times are just the opposite. Or the reverse is also true.

  Bruce Greenwood

  Writing, Thinking, Opposites

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• The fans have always supported me; bought my books, attended my camps and wore my sneakers. I will always have a special relationship with the fans.

  Walt Frazier

  Sneakers, Special, Fans

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• I feel like one can have all of that as a writer; you're writing, you're reading, you're talking to interesting and intelligent people. Your life is structured around whatever book you're writing, and so is your reading and so are many of your conversations.

  Sheila Heti

  Reading, Writing, Intelligent

  "Should I Go to Grad School?: An Interview with Sheila Heti". Interview with Jessica Loudis, www.newyorker.com. May 5, 2014.

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• I prefer reading e-books on a high resolution LCD screen - like the iPod Touch's - although the pixel density could and should be much higher.

  Nicholson Baker

  Reading, Ipods, Density

  "Ask The Author Live: Nicholson Baker On The Kindle". Q&As, www.newyorker.com. July 24, 2009.

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• It is very different. I mean, it was immediately different because it's a human being and it's not a vampire and it's not fighting monsters. This isn't the kind of movie that's got the comic book style of fighting to it. It was a bit more gritty.

  Kate Beckinsale

  Mean, Fighting, Style

  Interview with Tiffany Rose, screenrant.com. August 7, 2012.

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• Oh, and I have to mention one lady who does all of my book covers in cross stitch and frames them. Muriel. She's amazing. I just received one for my latest, Love And Dr Devon, actually. It's very sweet of her to do it.

  Alan Titchmarsh

  Sweet, Doe, Drs

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• I don't spend much on clothes. I buy old books. I tell myself I ought to save - it's the classic Northern work ethic. I like good holidays, though. I'm a big fan of cruises. I love unpacking once and having the scenery change every day.

  Alan Titchmarsh

  Holiday, Clothes, Work Ethic

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• In fact, you could make the argument that a historian like Shlomo Aronson does in passing in one of his books, that the bombing campaign united the German nation behind Hitler, and actually contributed to the sustaining of his power.

  Nicholson Baker

  Doe, Campaigns, Facts

  "Nicholson Baker: Human Smoke". Interview with James Mustich, www.barnesandnoble.com. April 7, 2008.

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• I think I've been mildly obsessed with my hair. I don't think I have a hugely adversarial relationship with it. One my essay is about my decision to keep coloring my hair once it started to go gray, but once I wrote the essay - once the book was in production - I decided to go gray.

  Elizabeth Benedict

  Thinking, Hair, Decision

  Source: nytlive.nytimes.com

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• I love old cookbooks. I just got such a kick out of them, how the color would be way off or fake looking. The cook books now look so much like magazines, you'll never make food that looks like that. I'd rather see it the ugly way than they way they do it now.

  Amy Sedaris

  Color, Fake, Would Be

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The spirit that America has, the American industry creativity it has where anything is possible. Three idealistic Australians bringing in new ideas and being able to make the damn comic books that they've always dreamed about, it's kind of a cool thing.

  Sam Worthington

  Creativity, Ideas, America

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm not really all that familiar with comic book culture. Not because I'm such a high brow intellectual and bloody European. But it's just something that I was never into. Not because of any superiority. I don't know why.

  Christoph Waltz

  Intellectual, Culture, Comic

  Source: collider.com

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• If I jumped into the cliché, everybody will have seen it before. If I stick to my ignorance a little bit, maybe, maybe it will turn out different. Or maybe a slightly new aspect to a comic book villain.

  Christoph Waltz

  Ignorance, Different, Littles

  Source: collider.com

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• If you're a fan of it, there's a lot of things that plays into what the fans of the series want. If you've never seen them before, a lot of people who have seen it tell me that it's the most accessible of the three. It's a solid story, by itself, and it's more of a sort of action film. When I was watching Twilight the other day, I realized that you do need to read the book to get it.

  Robert Pattinson

  Twilight, Play, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I read comic books and stuff but I didn't know a lot about it.

  Josh Brolin

  Stuff, Comic, Knows

  "Josh Brolin On Set Interview JONAH HEX – Read or Listen Here" by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. May 13, 2010.

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• People hate good books to be over. I wish I could write a 700-page book.

  Steve Earle

  Hate, Writing, People

  "Musician Steve Earle". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. May 23, 2011.

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• In my opinion, what makes a great book is something that is universally specific.

  Anne Hathaway

  Opinion, Great Book

  "New Anne Hathaway Image from ALICE IN WONDERLAND and Studio Provided Interview". Walt Disney Pictures Interview, collider.com. February 2, 2010.

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• You do not have to protect people's pocket books. They'll do a better job of that than you will.

  Johnny Hunt

  Leadership, Christian, Jobs

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• There's all kind of vision in this Book. Just open it up and your people will follow.

  Matthew Carter

  Leadership, Christian, People

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• But that's not how most of the people mentioned in this book became wealthy. Most of them became wealthy by being well connected and crooked. And they are creating a society in which they can commit hugely damaging economic crimes with impunity, and in which only children of the wealthy have the opportunity to become successful.

  Charles Ferguson

  Children, Successful, Opportunity

  Charles Ferguson (2014). “Inside Job: The Financiers Who Pulled Off the Heist of the Century”, p.5, Oneworld Publications

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• There can be no be no better instruction... than that every man who is to deal with his neighbor to follow these commandments. 'Whatsoever ye would that others should do unto you, do ye also unto them,' and 'Love thy neighbor as thyself.' If these were always followed, then everything would instruct and arrange itself; then no law books nor courts nor judicial actions would be required. All things would quietly and simply be set to rights, for everyone's heart and conscience would guide them.

  Martin Luther

  Communication, Heart, Men

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• In fact, books are still being published by the lunatic fringe with the same explanation. In case this book should be read by some fundamentalist searching for straws to prop up his prejudices, let me state categorically that all my experience (such as it is) has led me to an unqualified acceptance of evolution by natural selection as a sufficient explanation for what I have seen in the fossil record.

  D. V. Ager

  Acceptance, Science, Unqualified

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• Our enemies must not deceive themselves-in the 2,000 years of German history known to us, our people have never been more united than today. The Lord of the Universe has treated us so well in the past years that we bow in gratitude to a providence which has allowed us to be members of such a great nation. We thank Him that we also can be entered with honor into the ever-lasting book of German history!

  Adolf Hitler

  Gratitude, Past, Years

  Adolf Hitler (1944). “Hitler's Words”

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• Memoirs have dominated the literary scene now for ten or 20 or even 30 years: most of them seem to use the conventions of fiction and it's astonishing how in so many of these books people seem to be able to remember conversations that took place when they were five years old and give three pages of coherent dialogue, which is utterly impossible.

  Paul Auster

  Years, Giving, People

  Interview with Lotte Hansen, www.timeout.com.

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• I say at the very end of "Winter Journal" that I do dream about my father often. I think I have a tremendous compassion for him, which has grown over the years. A certain kind of pity for him also in that he was so unrealised as a human being, so dogged, and so shut-off from people in many ways. You know, I've been writing another book, and it's another non-fiction autobiographical work, kind of a compliment to "Winter Journal", and it's just finished.

  Paul Auster

  Dream, Father, Writing

  Interview with Wayne Gooderham, www.timeout.com.

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