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"Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away."
"A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat."
"I had forgotten what fiction was to me as a boy, forgotten what it was like in the library: fiction was an escape from the intolerable, a doorway into impossibly hospitable worlds where things had rules and could be understood; stories had been a way of learning about life without experiencing it, or perhaps of experiencing it as an eighteenth-century poisoner dealt with poisons, taking them in tiny doses, such that the poisoner could cope with ingesting things that would kill someone who was not inured to them. Sometimes fiction is a way of coping with the poison of the world in a way that lets us survive it."
"Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me."
"Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens."
"In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you."
"There was no actual person who was James Bond, despite all the books."
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"Young actors are pretty fantastic. I can't even imagine doing stuff like that when I was a kid."
"I honestly feel like we never had a bad episode by TV standards. Every week I felt there were so many strong components of the show, especially the writing."
"It was all that stuff about taking your parents' car when you're 13, sneaking booze into rock shows and ditching school with your friends. I could relate to that as a former teenager, rather than as a present parent."
"We own our movie and are now close to breaking even, even without finishing domestic DVD deals."
"Once a film is made and it exists, someone somewhere is going to watch it and that is kind of the magic of it all."
"It didn't get into Sundance although I showed a rough cut which is a mistake to all filmmakers out there."
"I think in a weird way that the entertainment industry is strangely more brutally honest than any other."
"Fair or not, it always sucks when everyone wanders back from Sundance talking about how bad the movies were."
"The day I showed up to South Carolina to work, I was with my kid and my ex and our dog and Kirk was hanging with this weird guy and I kind of defined the two of them by his friend and made a vow to avoid him."
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