Notebook Quotes - Page 5

• For years and years I carried these notebooks around with me - I had hundreds of pages of notes, these fragments that consisted of biographical anecdotes, diary passages, critical rants, agitations, scenes of my marriage.

  Kate Zambreno

  Years, Agitation, Anecdotes

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The Golden Notebook for some reason surprised people but it was no more than you would hear women say in their kitchens every day in any country... I was really astounded that some people were shocked.

  Doris Lessing

  Country, People, Kitchen

  "Doris Lessing: being a woman writer". Undated profile at the BBC World Service, www.bbc.co.uk.

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• Money is the driving force of Hand to Mouth, the lack of money, and all those true stories about strange things in The Red Notebook, coincidences and unlikely events, surprise, the unexpected.

  Paul Auster

  Hands, Events, Stories

  Interview with Nathalie Cochoy and Sophie Vallas, transatlantica.revues.org. March 2014.

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• For obvious reasons, I never told you about my notebook, with a cover as green as mansions long ago, which I use as a commonplace book, a phrase which here means 'place where I have collected passages from some of the most important books I have read.

  Daniel Handler

  Mean, Long Ago, Important

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• I hope that I would be considered romantic. I don't know... one of my favorite movies is 'The Notebook' so I guess that would be considered romantic. But I think being romantic is more than the flowers and the gifts. It's about connecting with the person and being able to talk and share things with her.

  Taylor Lautner

  Flower, Thinking, Would Be

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• And my father left me a legacy of his handwriting through letters and a notebook. In the last two years of his life, when he was sick, he filled a notebook with his thoughts about me… There are times when I want to trade all those years that I was too busy to sit with my dad and chat with him, and trade all those years for one hug. But too late. But that's when I take out his letters and I read them, and the paper that touched his hand is in mine, and I feel connected to him.

  Lakshmi Pratury

  Dad, Father, Hands

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• Carry a notebook and write down examples of good and poor design. After a week, you'll begin to realize that nearly everything is the product of a design decision.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Writing, Design, Decision

  "Why right-brainers will rule this century". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.cnn.com. May 7, 2009.

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• Insights don't usually arrive at my desk, but go into notebooks when I'm on the move. Or half-asleep.

  Hilary Mantel

  Moving, Half, Desks

  "Writer's rooms: Hilary Mantel" by Hilary Mantel, www.theguardian.com. February 02, 2007.

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• As a kid I read Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and a few others. As an adult have admired Leonardo da Vinci's drawings and notebooks.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Kids, Drawing, Adults

  "Viggo Mortensen Speaks". Interview with Ethan Gilsdorf, www.wired.com. March 10, 2012.

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• It's not like I would see anyone and be like, "Oh yes, that person looks like maybe I had an impact on them." I don't think I did. I don't think I ever was that well known, to have an impact. And I haven't seen comics that I go, "Oh, yes! That person is terribly unprepared, with their notebook, and going off on 50 tangents. There you are. That's me."

  Janeane Garofalo

  Thinking, Well Known, Unprepared

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• I find a lot of writing happens when you're not actually at the computer. So I carry a notebook.

  Noah Baumbach

  Writing, Computer, Happens

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• I was sickly as a child and gravitated to books and drawing. During my early teen years, I spent hundreds of hours at my window, sketching neighborhood children at play. I sketched and listened, and those notebooks became the fertile field of my work later on. There is not a book I have written or a picture I have drawn that does not, in some way, owe them its existence.

  Maurice Sendak

  Children, Years, Play

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• What I try very hard to do is have an hour or so in the morning when I leave the house and don't have my phone with me. I'll go sit in a cafe and read and handwrite in my notebook and not be facing a screen. My head will be clear. I will be able to hear myself think. Because honestly for the rest of the day it's just screens, screens, screens.

  Jami Attenberg

  Morning, Thinking, Phones

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• Personal computing today is a rich ecosystem encompassing massive PC-based data centers, notebook and Tablet PCs, handheld devices, and smart cell phones. It has expanded from the desktop and the data center to wherever people need it - at their desks, in a meeting, on the road or even in the air.

  Bill Gates

  Smart, Phones, Air

  "The PC Era Is Just Beginning". "Business Week" Magazine, www.businessweek.com. March 22, 2005.

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• I notice that my characters go out to dinner and have fun and take these great trips, but I spend so much time on their lives, I don’t have much of a personal life of my own. I have to sort of remember to fill out that little notebook on me.

  Angelina Jolie

  Fun, Character, Dinner

  "New Again: Angelina Jolie". Interview with Jon Voight, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 19, 2013.

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• Reasons for not keeping a notebook: 1) the ambiguity of the reader

  Lionel Trilling

  Journalism, Reason, Ambiguity

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• A part of my kind of design and inspiration ethos is that I carry around a leather notebook and I sketch in it, doodle in it, write notes in it and I put pictures in it.

  John Varvatos

  Inspiration, Writing, Ethos

  "So You Want to Be a Rockstar?". Interview with Kerry Pieri, www.harpersbazaar.com. December 5, 2013.

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• I once asked my father for a dollar for the school picnic. He told me how he once killed a grizzly bear with his loose-leaf notebook.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Father, School

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• As far as movies, I love 'The Notebook.' I always say that I wish I could play Rachel McAdams' character. She's amazing. That's the movie every girl wants to be in.

  Miranda Cosgrove

  Girl, Character, Play

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

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• I have filled 3 Mead notebooks trying to figure out whether it was Them or Just Me.

  David Foster Wallace

  Trying, Figures, Filled

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• When the poet Paul Valery once asked Albert Einstein if he kept a notebook to record his ideas, Einstein looked at him with mild but genuine surprise. "Oh, that's not necessary," he replied . "It's so seldom I have one.

  Bill Bryson

  Ideas, Records, Surprise

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• With God's help, I've not had a drink in nine and a half years. That's my whole story right there. And because of that, I'm doing this. I'm making records, I'm touring. I was so involved in just getting brain damaged, I wasn't doing anything. I had great ideas, many notebooks filled with notes, some of them I can read and some of them I just can't read, but I really didn't do anything constructive, it was all just good ideas. Now I'm trying to lead a constructive life a day at a time.

  Ringo Starr

  Years, Ideas, Brain

  Source: alltheseletters.com

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• If life is envisioned as a continuously running motion picture, the keeping of a notebook stops the action and allows a meaningful scene to be explored frame by frame.

  Jo Coudert

  Meaningful, Running, Action

  Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.99, iUniverse

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• "The Notebook" is one of my favorite love stories.

  Taylor Schilling

  Stories, Love Story, My Favorite

  "Next Factor Q&A: 'The Lucky One' Star Taylor Schilling". Interview with Robert Desalvo, www.mtv.com. April 16, 2012.

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• I have a penchant for fresh notebooks and mechanical pencils. It seems every time I go to the store, I buy a new notebook. I have dozens of them just sitting around.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Sitting, Dozen, Stores

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