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Books Quotes
"I only keep books that I like very much. Otherwise I'd throw them out."
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"The deadlines are much, much longer with books. When I was a reporter, a lot of times I'd come in at 8:30 a.m., get an assignment right away, interview somebody, turn the story in by 9:30, and have the finished story in the paper that landed on my desk by noon."
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"Oh, I was super serious about practicing and rudiments, and still am. I still have all my books."
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"I love reading I know it's very important and I respect anyone that is patient enough to do it."
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"In the last 1,000 years, the Arabs have translated as many books as Spain translates in just one year."
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"As a strong supporter of our 2nd Amendment rights, I believe tougher enforcement of our nation's existing gun laws must be done before any more laws are enacted and put on the books."
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"The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books."
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"Next, in importance to books are their titles."
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"The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves."
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"To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films."
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"I was lucky enough to be given books that weren't top sellers; books that were kind of under the radar."
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"I picked books by their covers - the worse the cover, the more I wanted to read it."
4
"Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images."
4
"I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing, but at least I'm alone and I'm an individual. I can stop anytime I want, which I frequently do."
4
"One way an author dies a little each day is when his books go out of print."
4
"Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds of very, very, very boring books."
4
"The animated books pay the lowest rates at the Big Two and you can forget about royalties."
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"Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors that they are ready to repeat their lessons as often as we please."
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"I don't write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in which I write down phrases as they occur to me. That's how I write songs. I'll need a line and I'll go through the books and find it, the right rhyme and everything."
4
"Although most products will soon be too costly to purchase, there will be a thriving market in the sale of books on how to fix them."
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"I'm very lucky. I'm very fortunate that my books have never gone out of print - none of them."
4
"About 75 percent of the crude oil marketed here is sold off the books, and they are doing trades that would be illegal if it was a regulated market, and of course they do not want to regulate it."
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"I am really impressed by lawyers who write books and tell us that they never lost a case. Most lawyers who have never lost a case have not had enough hard cases. But there are very difficult cases out there."
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"I read numerous books - loads in fact - and, as I always do when recording a historical project, immersed myself into the subject matter. I spent many hours at Henry's old homes, such as Hampton Court, and visiting the Tower of London. I read no other books during that period."
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"It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't."
4
"I'm fortunate that the books sell, but even more fortunate to live in Chatham, to be very happily married and to have, on the whole, a fairly clear conscience."
4
"We are forced by the major publishers to include electronic rights in the contracts we make with publishers for new books. And there's very little we can do about that."
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"You're getting to know who the great chefs are through their books."
4
"Black Books adheres to a more old fashioned, traditional sitcom format, which I think works, because in its own way, it's quite theatrical."
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