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• I love auditioning. Since “The Notebook” and “Wedding Crashers,” I don’t have to audition anymore, and I miss it. You get to show your interpretation of the character. I get nervous when I don’t audition. What if they hate what I want to do?

  Rachel McAdams

  Hate, Character, Missing

  "Crazy Like A Fox". Interview with Lynn Hirschberg, www.nytimes.com. August 13, 2008.

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• There's no other company that could make a MacBook Air and the reason is that not only do we control the hardware, but we control the operating system. And it is the intimate interaction between the operating system and the hardware that allows us to do that. There is no intimate interaction between Windows and a Dell notebook.

  Steve Jobs

  Air, Window, Reason

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.31, Prabhat Prakashan

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• They were written on cheap blue notebooks bought by poor women. I'm interested in folk tales in the way that medicine and magic in women's stories are all kind of combined.

  Alice Hoffman

  Eye, Blue, Medicine

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• Keep it simple: own as little as you can get away with, schedule everything, keep a notebook, don't let technology enslave you.

  Blake Mycoskie

  Technology, Simple, Schedules

  Twitter post from Sep 21, 2011

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• The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.

  Bill Gates

  Technology, Matter, Stuff

  Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.36, Hachette UK

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• I have made up thousands of stories; I have filled innumerable notebooks with phrases to be used when I have found the true story, the one story to which all these phrases refer. But I have never yet found the story. And I begin to ask, Are there stories?

  Virginia Woolf

  Phrases, Stories, Used

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.137, Virginia Woolf

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• Not to find one's way around a city does not mean much. But to lose one's way in a city, as one loses one's way in a forest, requires some schooling. Street names must speak to the urban wanderer like the snapping of dry twigs, and little streets in the heart of the city must reflect the times of day, for him, as clearly as a mountain valley. This art I acquired rather late in life; it fulfilled a dream, of which the first traces were labyrinths on the blotting papers in my school notebooks.

  Walter Benjamin

  Dream, Art, Mean

  Walter Benjamin, Marcus Paul Bullock, Michael William Jennings, Howard Eiland, Gary Smith (2002). “Selected Writings: 1935-1938”, p.352, Harvard University Press

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• I write everything down. I e-mail the second I think of something, or I write notes in my BlackBerry calendar. I set up reminder alerts on my phone. And I have a notebook by my bedside so I can write down any last-minute ideas.

  Giada De Laurentiis

  Writing, Thinking, Phones

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• I carry a notebook full of sketches of pictures I want to take - they are really scruffy sketches, but at least I am going out there with a clear objective.

  Nigel Dennis

  Going Out, Want, Clear

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• Sitting in my favorite coffeehouse with a new notebook and a hot cup of java is my idea of Heaven.

  Libba Bray

  Ideas, Heaven, Hot

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• When the last dime is gone, I'll sit on the curb outside with a pencil and a ten cent notebook and start the whole thing over again.

  Preston Sturges

  Dimes, Gone, Lasts

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment of loss.

  Joan Didion

  Lonely, Children, Writing

  Joan Didion (2013). “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, p.98, Zola Books

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• Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy

  Jack Kerouac

  Joy, Secret, Pages

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• She drinks pints of coffee and writes little observations and ideas for stories with her best fountain pen on the linen-white pages of expensive notebooks. Sometimes, when it's going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationery.

  David Nicholls

  Coffee, Believe, Writing

  David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.104, Hachette UK

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• You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Paris, Moveable Feast, Pencils

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• It was a pleasant cafe, warm and clean and friendly, and I hung up my old water-proof on the coat rack to dry and put my worn and weathered felt hat on the rack above the bench and ordered a cafe au lait. The waiter brought it and I took out a notebook from the pocket of the coat and a pencil and started to write.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Coffee, Writing, Water

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• Although teachers do care and do work very, very hard, the institution is psychopathic-it has no conscience. It rings a bell and the young man in the middle of writing a poem must close his notebook and move to a different cell where he must memorize that humans and monkeys derive from a common ancestor.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Teacher, Moving, Writing

  John Taylor Gatto, Thomas Moore (2013). “Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling”, p.30, New Society Publishers

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• To lose a passport was the least of one’s worries. To lose a notebook was a catastrophe.

  Bruce Chatwin

  Worry, Passports, Catastrophe

  "The Songlines". Book by Bruce Chatwin, 1987.

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• And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.

  J. K. Rowling

  Writing, Ideas, Cafes

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• You can plan all you want to. You can lie in your morning bed and fill whole notebooks with schemes and intentions. But within a single afternoon, within hours or minutes, everything you plan and everything you have fought to make yourself can be undone as a slug is undone when salt is poured on him. And right up to the moment when you find yourself dissolving into foam you can still believe you are doing fine.

  Wallace Stegner

  Morning, Lying, Believe

  Wallace Stegner (2007). “Crossing to Safety”, p.191, Modern Library

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• The hardest part is believing in yourself at the notebook stage. It is like believing in dreams in the morning.

  Erica Jong

  Dream, Morning, Believe

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• Although I have felt compelled to write things down since I was five years old, I doubt that my daughter ever will, for she is a singularly blessed and accepting child, delighted with life exactly as life presents itself to her, unafraid to go to sleep and unafraid to wake up. Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment of loss.

  Joan Didion

  Daughter, Lonely, Children

  Joan Didion (2013). “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, p.98, Zola Books

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• Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea for ever.

  Will Self

  Memories, Mean, Writing

  Will Self's rules for writers, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2010.

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• Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed; it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Poetry, Understanding, Inspire

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