Pages Quotes - Page 26

• A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe.

  Yann Martel

  Communication, Novelists

  "Life of Pi author Yann Martel: 'Overall, I think it's a wonderful companion piece'". Interview with Mark Medley, nationalpost.com. November 21, 2012.

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• One of my rigid goals is to keep each book under 300 pages because I think so much nonfiction is literally weighty that people don't get through these books ... If people don't finish your book, then they don't know what you're talking about.

  Thomas Cahill

  Book, Thinking, Talking

  "Thomas Cahill's mission: to restore the West's genealogy" by Jamie Allen, www.cnn.com. November 27, 1998.

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• Typing is an essential skill, but it can be painful. Some children just don't know where the letters are. Typing a three-page story, when they have to spend minutes hunting for every letter, can take forever. Yet we tend to assume that children can type, partly because quite a lot of us know where quite a lot of the letters are, so we assume that children do, too.

  Susan Mitchell

  Children, Hunting, Skills

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• Forget the state concerns -- we think this is bad for churches. Most churches are small and not ready to handle 500 pages of government red tape.

  Michael Tanner

  Thinking, Government, Church

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• Writer's block.. when one curses the blinking cursor on the blank page.

  Regina Brett

  Block, Blank, Curse

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• No one would have the courage to walk up to a writer and ask to look at the last few pages of his manuscript, but they feel perfectly comfortable staring over an artist's shoulder while he is trying to paint.

  Robert Genn

  Artist, Trying, Looks

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• Sarah Palin's book is big, 400 pages. She wrote the book herself and agonized over every word, and so will you.

  David Letterman

  Book, Bigs, Palin

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• I think of a child's mind as a blank book. During the first years of his life, much will be written on the pages. The quality of that writing will affect his life profoundly.

  Walt Disney

  Children, Book, Writing

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• Our job is to read things that are not yet on the page.

  Steve Jobs

  Jobs

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.36, Prabhat Prakashan

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• This stuff they are talking here in Congress costs the people of the United States $44 a page. That's beside what it costs to ship it to the asylums where it's read.

  Will Rogers

  Talking, America, People

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.57, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Writing is agony for me. I work at it eight hours every day, hoping to get six pages, but I am satisfied with three.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Writing, Agony, Eight

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• At home I've got 1,500 cook books and the spines have all gone, the pages are all torn - it's chaos.

  Heston Blumenthal

  Book, Home, Gone

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

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• I am the signet which marks the page where the revolution has been stopped; but when I die it will turn the page and resume its course.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Revolution, Resumes, Mark

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• We have the Bible in our hands; but how little we know of its teaching! And how little are we governed by it! We go on, from week to week, year to year, with things which have no foundation whatever in its pages- yea, with things utterly opposed to its teaching; and, all the while, we boast of having the Scriptures, just like the Jews of old, who made their boast of having the oracles of God, while those very oracles condemned themselves and their ways, and left them without a single plea.

  Charles Henry Mackintosh

  Christian, Teaching, Hands

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• I wish I could have a little tape-and-loudspeaker arrangement sewn into the binding of this magazine, to be triggered off by the light reflected from the reader's eyes on to this part of the page, and set to bawl out at several bels: MORE WILL MEAN WORSE.

  Kingsley Amis

  Mean, Eye, Light

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• For the entire Desiderata go to Inspirational Poems page

  Max Ehrmann

  Peace

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• The Bill of Rights never gets off the page and into the lives of most Americans.

  William J. Brennan

  Rights, Bills, Constitution

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• I don't try to be satirical. I just try to get what's in my head on the page. And that part is hard for me to do. It takes a long, long time to make it poetic, somewhat essayistic.

  Paul Beatty

  Long, Trying, Poetic

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The only thing that I always do - is once I've taken on a job, even just to do one scene in a movie, I ask myself, "What's happened the moment the kid was born, until page one of the script?" To answer that simple question, I have an infinite amount of work to do. And I enjoy that part as much as I enjoy any part of making movies.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Jobs, Taken, Kids

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I like Stallone, because he writes. He sits down with a blank page and comes up with another Rambo movie. That isn't very easy for anybody. He's made it successful on top of that.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Writing, Successful, Rambo

  Source: movieweb.com

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• This is a perfect example of the power and ridiculousness of a website like Wikipedia. I did give a slightly contentious graduation speech, where I decided not to be funny as my classmates had hoped, which was why I was chosen. I was not valedictorian, that's for sure. Instead, I talked about the failure to communicate between the administration and the teachers and students. That's what was contentious about it. At some point, somebody wrote about that incident on my Wikipedia page. And then somebody added the bit about me exposing my genitals to the crowd.

  Nick Kroll

  Teacher, Giving, Perfect

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I think that you can say something in one line with a look that you might need three lines on a page for normally.

  Guy Pearce

  Thinking, Three, Needs

  "In 'The Rover,' Guy Pearce Takes A Bleak Road Trip". "Here & Now" with Jeremy Hobson, www.wbur.org. June 18, 2014.

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• There are certain episodes that on the page I thought, "Oh boy, this is going to be the funniest episode." And there are other ones that went in, fingers crossed, saying, "Oh well, let's hope something good comes out of it." Oftentimes, those ones wind up being the best ones.

  Charlie Day

  Boys, Wind, Being The Best

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Everybody is a writer. Everybody uses e-mail and has Facebook pages and tweets.

  Mary Norris

  Mail, Use, Tweet

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• On the printed page, it's best to have everything - you know, to still mind your P's and Q's, dot your I's and cross your T's, yes.

  Mary Norris

  Mind, Dots, Crosses

  Source: www.pbs.org

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