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At the end of the day, I'm just trying to write a song that I like, that I'm not afraid to turn… — Jason Isbell Copy Share Image
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When television is good, nothing - not the theater, not the magazines or newspapers - nothing is better. But when television is… — Newton N. Minow Copy Share Image
People leave imprints on our lives, shaping who we become in much the same way that a symbol is pressed into the… — Ashly Lorenzana Copy Share Image
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I think the hardest part of being in the band and trying to make it is waiting, you know? I think, to… — Wesley Schultz Copy Share Image
“But you love books, then,” Aunt Queen was saying. I had to listen. “Oh, yes,” Lestat said. “Sometimes they are the only… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
In solitude the mind gains strength, and learns to lean upon herself; in the world it seeks or accepts of a few… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
It's an incredible education [for the movie J. Edgar Hoover] . It was like I did a college course on J. Edgar… — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share Image
In my twenties, it was so important for me to show people I had all these other books and these other sorts… — Evelyn Lau Copy Share Image
Constance L. Rice, co-director of the Los Angeles of the Advancement Project, told the Times that Seltzer might have been influenced by… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Our statute books gradually became laden with gross, stereotyped distinctions between the sexes and, indeed, throughout much of the 19th century the… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
After I wrote my memoir, 'A Long Way Gone,' I was a bit exhausted. I didn't want to write another memoir; I… — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
May I ask you something?" I say. "Why do you read books, when you could be outside, living a million different adventures… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Over the holidays, and even during filming, I realized that I actually like my body, even if it's not perfect according to… — Rihanna Copy Share Image
Comic books, movies, radio programmes centered their entertainment around the fact of torture. With the clearest of consciences, with a patriotic intensity,… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
When I write a book, I don't have a plan or an outline. The characters move the action, and the action develops… — Russell Hoban Copy Share Image
I'm not a big note-taker, so I think that the way I decide is that whatever I remember I always consider something… — Kelly Oxford Copy Share Image
What if the book (of Genesis) is describing a dawning awareness of the world? The anthropologist Edmund Leach has argued that the… — Charles Hampden-Turner Copy Share Image
“Question of the day: Two Indie authors publish their first books which are true to form, statistical failures. There are over a… — Amber Garibay Copy Share Image
I can easily conceive, most Holy Father, that as soon as some people learn that in this book which I have written… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
I look at my first books and am glad they weren't published… You start writing by imitating your heroes, then you keep… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
I might spend 100 pages trying to get to know the world I'm writing about: its contours, who are my main characters,… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
If she replaces her eyebrows with a Machiavellian triangle, paints her fingernails blue, and dyes her hair some color you'd see in… — Robert Stack Copy Share Image
In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
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“Books you have read share a deep ontological similarity with books you haven't: both can be profoundly fuzzy. At times books you… — john durham peters Copy Share Image
The boy heaved a sigh. "I would ask to go with you," he said, " but I have to finish my lessons.… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Nobody wants to see the truth. Everybody wants to have the fantasy. When I look back at the books I was reading… — Signe Baumane Copy Share Image
Imagine what our culture would be like if Americans sold ideas, words, and books with the same creativity we use to sell… — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
He pointed the gun at me. Then he looked up at my hand & tilted his head slightly. - Journey, he said.… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
I always tell people, "There's a book on everyone." I get some of that book before I do anything. If I want… — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
I have read many, many of these first-time published efforts and often, even though some are absolutely at pro levels of production,… — Gail Simone Copy Share Image
I made a very conscious effort to finish 'The Cypress House' before 'So Cold the River' launched, because I thought that would… — Michael Koryta Copy Share Image
People who excel at book learning tend to call up from memory what they have learned in order to follow stored instructions.… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
It's a rare memoir that can tell a story that seems brand new, but Nina Here Nor There does it. This one-of-a-kind… — K. M. Soehnlein Copy Share Image
Even a cursory reading of the book of Ecclesiastes shows that culture is a stationary bike that each generation climbs on in… — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it. God only… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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