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• The Booker Prize is a big, popular prize for big, popular books, and that's the way it should be. — John Banville
• Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work and luck for a Booker, a… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• I would walk into the Carnegie Library and I would see the pictures of Booker T. and pictures of Frederick… — Clarence Thomas
• He (Vince Russo) is the only booker I've seen who doesn't get people over, he gets them under. — Jim Cornette
• New Jersey Mayor Corey Booker last night personally rescued a woman from a burning building. Or as Fox News reported… — Bill Maher
• I have always been accused of taking the things I love – football, of course, but also books and records… — Nick Hornby
• The Booker thing was a catalyst for me in a bizarre way. It’s perceived as an accolade to be published… — Neil Cross
• If you think your lot has been hard, read 'Up From Slavery' by Booker T. Washington, and you may see… — Napoleon Hill
• Booker T. Jones sounds more pithy and forceful than ever on “Potato Hole”…Mr. Jones still jabs terse, unhurried melodies that… — Jon Pareles
• People aren't quite sure what it means when a book is a Booker Prize winner. They're not quite sure what… — Kazuo Ishiguro
• He's a seminal force, a guru, an original creator of the New Orleans piano style.. the teacher of great players… — Jerry Wexler
• The Booker 2011 is of no more interest to me than the world heavyweight championship, which I'm not going to… — Edward St Aubyn

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