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Most of us are searching-consciously or unconsciously- for a degree of internal balance and harmony between ourselves and the outside world, and if we happen… — Walter Murch
When I'm actually assembling a scene, I assemble it as a silent movie. Even if it's a dialog scene, I lip read what people are… — Walter Murch
I couldn't open up a magazine, you couldn't read a newspaper, you couldn't turn on the TV without hearing about the obesity epidemic in America. — Morgan Spurlock
Wherever we direct our view, we discover the melancholy proofs of our depravity; whether we look to ancient or modern times, to barbarous or civilized… — William Wilberforce
I read THE WICKED + THE DIVINE last night, and no matter how high your expectations are for it, its better. — Scott Snyder
Just as we would not traditionally assume that someone is literate if they can read but not write, we should not assume that someone possesses… — Henry Jenkins
If you invest the short time it takes to read, understand and apply the basic principles in this book, there is little doubt you will… — Unknown Author
I feel that I belong to the 19th century. Some composers' music is very topical. It almost says, 'This is about what I read in… — Gordon Getty
I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinson's poetry. I came back to my hotel, read 2,000 of… — Gordon Getty
Today, we need to listen more carefully. I read what people say on Twitter, my friends on Path, in addition to formal media. I look… — Padmasree Warrior
Habit must play a larger place in our religious life. We worship when we feel like it, we pray when we feel like it. We… — Ralph Washington Sockman
Much had he read, Much more had he seen; he studied from the life, And in th' original perus'd mankind. — John Armstrong
We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out discretion, and so disappears the most immediate breath of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I have studied the enemy all my life. I have read the memoirs of his generals and his leaders. I have even read his philosophers… — George S. Patton
All my life I have been trying to learn, to read, to see and hear, and to write. At sixty-five I began my first novel… — Carl Sandburg
"Do you know," Ivan Bunin recalls Anton Chekhov saying to him in 1899, near the end of his too-short life, "for how many years I… — Anton Chekhov
I long to embrace, to include in my own short life, all that is accessible to man. I long to speak, to read, to wield… — Anton Chekhov
The walls of rude minds are scrawled all over with facts, with thoughts. They shall one day bring a lantern and read the inscriptions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everyone engaged in research must have had the experience of working with feverish and prolonged intensity to write a paper which no one else will… — Noam Chomsky
I can only think that the book is read because it deals with the difficulties of schooling, which do not change. Please note: the difficulties,… — Jacques Barzun

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