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I do everything I watch, whether it's like a big comic book film that I've done or something very serious and raw.I… — Eva Mendes Copy Share Image
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I do a lot of research and yes, do know quite a few police officers, friends of mine and my husbands. However,… — Franny Armstrong Copy Share Image
The men who are not interested in philosophy need it most urgently: they are most helplessly in its power. The men who… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The process of writing a book is infinitely more important than the book that is completed as a result of the writing,… — Theodore Isaac Rubin Copy Share Image
Sheer scholarship alone cannot reveal to us the gospel of grace. We must never allow the authority of books, institutions, or leaders… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
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I heard about the book and I said, 'Oh my god, I've got to read this book,' and I didn't know that… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
A book, being a physical object, engenders a certain respect that zipping electrons cannot. Because you cannot turn a book off, because… — Mo Willems Copy Share Image
Literature is a place for generosity and affection and hunger for equals - not a prizefight ring. We are increased, confirmed in… — Tillie Olsen Copy Share Image
The Lord has never indicated that black skin came because of being less faithful. Now, the Indian; we know why he has… — LeGrand Richards Copy Share Image
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We had collaborated with Allen Ginsberg on one of his last projects just before he died in the spring of '97, a… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
When I was 18 I read a book about Buddhism and, before I was halfway through it I said to my mother,… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
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I was getting tired about what the preacher called Christian. Anything he did was Christian, and the people in his church believed… — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share Image
Seek wisdom in books, rare manuscripts, and cryptic poems if you will, but seek it out also in simple stones, and fragile… — Scott Cunningham Copy Share Image
Unlike television, reading does not swallow the senses or dictate thought. Reading stimulates the ecology of the imagination. Can you remember the… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
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“the second book’s for readers, he said. But you can’t know when they’ll come, if they do. It’s the book for telling:… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
Reading aloud sounds like a good idea, but honestly, it doesn't work very well. Good dialogue in a book doesn't actually bear… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
It will startle you to see what slaves we are to by-gone times-to Death, if we give the matter the right word!… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I thought, you know, I would probably not have seen that. On the other hand, he's obviously completely telling the truth. So,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Buonaparte is certainly writing, or rather dictating, his memoirs. He walks backwards and forwards with his hands behind him, and dictates so… — Mary Russell Mitford Copy Share Image
I don't write as much now as I used to, but I write. The lines still come, maybe periodically, and I'll go… — John Trudell Copy Share Image
One of the most famous lines in contemporary Russian poetry is "Erica makes four copies and that's enough." That's the ethos we're… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
I'm reading "The Sunset of a Splendid Century" by W.H. Lewis. He was C.S. Lewis's brother. He wrote two books about the… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
We try to exert a Ted Williams kind of discipline. In his book The Science of Hitting, Ted explains that he carved… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
You don't go to other books and take little pieces because although say a romantic scene may have been many times before… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Yes, I know, shaming, isn't it? I always say you can take the girl out of the 80s, but you can't take… — Louise Mensch Copy Share Image
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A book is a product of a pact with the Devil that inverts the Faustian contract, he'd told Allie. Dr Faustus sacrificed… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
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Violence has been a part of storytelling forever and there's obviously a reason for it. Fairy tales are really violent, the original… — Jane Levy Copy Share Image
But maybe the Charm Bracelets understood more about life than I did. From an early age they knew what little value the… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I grew up in the midst of poverty but every black kid that I knew could read and write. We have to… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I'm always loath to make generalizations about what is for children and what isn't. Certainly children's literature as a genre has some… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image