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"But I find the best things I do, I do when I'm trying to avoid doing something else I'm supposed to be doing. You know, you're working on something. You get bugged, or you lose your enthusiasm or something. So you turn to something else with an absolute vengeance."
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"Its appearance was greeted with cries of rapture, and following a brief struggle over possesion of the volume, William rescued it before it should be torn to pieces, but allowed himself to be induced to read some of the passages aloud, his dramatic rendering being greeted by wolflike howls of enthusiasim and hails of live pits."
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"A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm."
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"Approach every film with the same enthusiasm, regardless of its budget."
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"Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting."
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"So this is the only TV show in America where I am quite confident that you, the audience, will share my excitement when I tell you that coming up in our next segment, we have the best graph ever. Best graph ever."
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"One must be convinced to convince, to have enthusiasm to stimulate the others."
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"Everything interested him and everything excited him."
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"It is difficult to describe in short the enthusiasm and devotion provoked by and given to my research. We lived almost in poverty. I used pencils, two for a nickel, and could not buy a fountain pen, when I lost mine."
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"I am hoping the four new players can bring in some energy and fresh enthusiasm because they do not have the baggage that comes from being part of a losing side."
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"That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!"
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"A good book written for children can be read by adults."
Children
"When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything."
Fact
"I received a grant from The Ford Foundation to write a book for kids about urban perception, or how people experience cities, but I kept putting off writing it. Instead I started to write what became The Phantom Tollbooth."
Experience
"It was really written as most, I think, books are by writers - for themselves. There was something that just had to be written, in a way that it had to be written. If you know what I mean."
Books
"I think kids slowly begin to realize that what they're learning relates to other things they know. Then learning starts to get more and more exciting."
Kids
"People always ask about my influences, and they cite a bunch of people I've never heard of."
People
"I remember when I was a kid in school and teachers would explain things to me about what I read, and I'd think, Where did they get that? I didn't read that in there. Later you look at it and think, That's kind of an interesting idea."
Idea
"There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction."
Books
"I think really good books can be read by anybody."
Books
"I write best in the morning, and I can only write for about half a day, that's about it."
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