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Someone can do three episodes of 'The Bold and the Beautiful,' then turn around and book a primetime show. That's happening all… — Ashley Jones Copy Share Image
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I think it helps the writers to sell their books, if they announce my attachment, but it doesn't mean that I'm going… — James Franco Copy Share Image
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I was fortunate enough to book a pilot, and we just got picked up for a midseason replacement for ABC. It's called… — Kelly Stables Copy Share Image
There was - there still is - a big shortage of good Chinese-English literary translators. So for two years in London, I… — Xiaolu Guo Copy Share Image
When I was just writing books and giving lectures, if people disagreed, they just didn't buy your book or attend your lectures.… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
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The book that really, really shaped my politics and has forever is Arthur Koestler's "Darkness at Noon," which is a novel based… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
We hide so well. This is the bottom line: how hidden is male subjectivity? Name five books where male subjectivity is produced… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
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You've got to love libraries. You've got to love books. You've got to love poetry. You've got to love everything about literature.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I coauthored my first nonfiction book by the time I was 25. I have been involved in nonfiction documentaries, newspapers, TV and… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
When I was a teenager, I read the bible cover-to-cover, and I found the Old Testament, it's a pretty bloody history book. — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
In the modern languages there was not, six hundred years ago, a single volume which is now read. The library of our… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
So great a contribution to physics was Two New Sciences that scholars have long maintained that the book anticipated Isaac Newton's laws… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
A book may be compared to your neighbour: if it be good it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get… — Rupert Brooke Copy Share Image
Books can capture injustices in a way that stays with you and makes you want to do something about them. That's why… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
I woke up one day and thought: 'I want to write a book about the history of my body.' I could justify… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's… — William Golding Copy Share Image
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To write a book about improvisation is partly a contradiction in terms. Improvisation is spontaneous. It's in the moment. — Sally Schneider Copy Share Image
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I think writing a book with film in mind is a way to write a really bad books. You can usually tell… — Charlize Theron Copy Share Image
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We get a better book when everyone's allowed to do their best work on it. I don't want to prevent anybody from… — Brian Azzarello Copy Share Image
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My mom wasn't, like, she was reading all these historical romance novels the majority of the time. She read a feminist book… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
Plot is not my forte. It's like I have to live in my head in the book for a while before I… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
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