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'XIII' is a spy show. I think the comic book is a little too similar to 'The Bourne Identity.' I tried to… — Roger Avary Copy Share Image
Life is precious, so I ought to spend my days, you know, making sandwiches for homeless people and tending to the elderly… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
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I seem to have come out of the womb with existential angst and wasn't a happy kid, so I've been on a… — Marci Shimoff Copy Share Image
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I checked to see if there'd been a really good book published in the last few decades. Then I started with what… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
Some of this book—perhaps too much—has been about how I learned to do it. Much of it has been about how you… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
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This book will present some aspects of what the writer has termed the pedagogy of the oppressed, a pedagogy which must be… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
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Here is a quilted book about mathematical practice, each patch wonderfully prepared. Part invitation to number theory, part autobiography, part sociology of… — Peter Galison Copy Share Image
There are books in rivulets and sermons in stones. You can gather lessons from everything. If a man does nothing whatsoever he… — Kirpal Singh Copy Share Image
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