"I've always loved words. I ate up all the books I could get my hands on, and when I couldn't get books, I read candy wrappers and labels on cereal and toothpaste boxes."

Books, Words

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"I've always loved words. I ate up all the books I could get my hands on, and when I couldn't get books, I read candy wrappers and labels on cereal and toothpaste boxes."

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"I suppose that if I could have quit, I would have, because in those days I never wanted to be an actress, the acting was something to do while I waited for a chance to study writing and directing. But I guess I was just meant to be an actress. Because, here I am."

Acting, Chance, Study, Writing

"I've always loved words. I ate up all the books I could get my hands on, and when I couldn't get books, I read candy wrappers and labels on cereal and toothpaste boxes."

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"I'm a born and bred New Yorker. I belong here. Everytime I leave it's like losing a leg."

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"I was bargaining for time away from Hollywood, and Columbia was bargaining for money. I got what I wanted and they got what they wanted. They knew I was so anxious to do Born Yesterday that I'd have done it for a dollar. They gave me the next best thing."

Time, Money, Hollywood, Yesterday

"I hated the whole idea of being an actress. I used to throw up before every performance and cry afterward."

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"I want a part where I can use my own hair, my own voice, and maybe even be literate."

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"They weren't interested in entertainment. They were tough. I learned one trick, which was to be quieter than they were until they had to look at you. It took a lot of agressiveness."

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"I am not a member of any organization listed by the Attorney General as subversive. In any instance where I lent my name in the past, it was certainly without knowledge that such an organization was subversive. I have always been essentially and foremost an American."

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"Acting is a very limited form of expression and those who take it seriously are very limited people. I take it seriously."

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"Of course I work hard. Why shouldn't I? Who am I to think I should get things the easy way?"

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"Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid."

Dean Koontz, American Author

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"At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

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"Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life."

Stephen King, American Author

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"I am not a supporter of burning books; but like poison, some books should be kept away from simple minds who can't take in the strong content they provide."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"Every book is worth reading. If it cannot make you wiser it will make you a critic."

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"I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad."

Mark Haddon, English Novelist

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"I don't want to write formula. I don't want to crank these books out like sausages. Every book is different, which takes a hell of a lot of ingenuity on my part."

Sue Grafton, American Novelist

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"There's something about each of my books that I'm really proud of, and there's something about each of my books that I cringe over."

Margaret Haddix, American Author

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"Oh, I was super serious about practicing and rudiments, and still am. I still have all my books."

Travis Barker, American Musician

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"Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are."

Bruce Jackson, American Public Servant

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