Book Quotes - Page 36

• When I'm 75 years old, I want to say that I chased my dream. I didn't let other people's opinions dictate what I have in my book of my life.

  Thomas Jones

  Dream, Years, People

  "Meet Being Mary Jane's 'Cutty Buddy,' Thomas Q. Jones". Interview with Demetria Lucas D'Oyley, www.theroot.com. February 24, 2015.

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• Books were not looked upon as things unobtainable due to economic circumstances or class status. My grandfather stole an entire set of Dicken's from the local library.

  Bob Hartley

  Class, Grandfather, Library

  Source: www.braddockavenuebooks.com

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• The readers are very similar. The books they know, the questions they ask, the characters they like. That is similar.

  Gabriel Ba

  Character, Reader, Knows

  Source: archiv.comicgate.de

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• Books keep the mind active. Without them, complacency is a huge danger.

  Carl Deuker

  Mind, Complacency, Danger

  Source: www.sjboysread.org

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• I've always been fascinated, obsessed even, with books and TV shows about unsolved murders, cold cases, forensic science, mysteries, and so on. Many times when I get inspiration for my work, it's from something in one of these books or TV shows, or perhaps some newspaper article about a specific case.

  Scott Heim

  Inspiration, Tv Shows, Tvs

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• To me, nothing tastes more like summer than peach pie. I began collecting pie recipes from friends and family while I was still working on my first draft. As the recipes poured in, it was fun to try to match the pies to the characters in the book.

  Sarah Weeks

  Summer, Fun, Character

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• I think the books are the books. They were conceived as books. They weren't conceived as movies. When I write scripts, that's an idea and a situation that I think is a really good idea for a movie. When I'm writing a book, I'm not thinking, "Oh, this would be a great movie." This would be a very interesting book. And I think the books are things that cannot really be adapted into another medium.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Writing, Thinking, Ideas

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. April 22, 2009.

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• I'm never quite sure what I'm looking for in a comic book! It just jumps off the page somehow and hits you square between the eyeballs and you know that's the artist for the story.

  William Katt

  Artist, Squares, Stories

  Source: comicsand.blogspot.com

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• As far as poetry, I don't know if I've ever written any. I've read a lot. I just write and it comes out in different forms and shapes. I don't know if I'm any good at it I just really go for it and I'm very prolific book wise only because I own the company. No one tells me 'no' around here.

  Henry Rollins

  Wise, Writing, Different

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• My mother taught me how to read very early on and at school I was ahead of everyone in class... Reading was always something that I liked because I could do it alone and I was alone a lot of the time with my mother working the hours she did. Books became my friends very early on.

  Henry Rollins

  Mother, Reading, School

  "#tbt An Interview with Henry Rollins". Interview with Eric Stein, www.brothersdepaul.com. January 7, 2015.

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• Culturally speaking, I was raised in a Jewish household. In addition to the religious side of it, I was taught respect for books and learning and the higher professions like medicine and law and teaching.

  Woody Allen

  Religious, Teaching, Law

  CrankyCritic Interview, www.woodyallen.art.pl.

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• Anytime you take a book and make it into a movie, you're going to have people who have their version of it in their minds and whatnot. You can't please everybody.

  Josh Hutcherson

  People, Mind, Please

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• Maybe I'll just write books. I'd like to make another movie, but I don't want to go back and [do] what they want you to do, to make it for a million dollars. I did that. I don't need a lot, but I need what I used to get, and they don't give you that anymore.

  John Waters

  Writing, Giving, Dollars

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• As a kid, I drew cartoon characters and comic book heroes. Spiderman and the X-Men were my favorites.

  Kadir Nelson

  Hero, Character, Kids

  "Kadir Nelson: In-depth Written Interview". TeachingBooks.net interview at California studio in San Diego County, www.teachingbooks.net. September 7, 2010.

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• People have filled an enormously important role in my life - more than books! For me, it's not the formal advising or the therapy that meant so much. It was more the fact that someone committed himself or herself to me. They were really interested in my life; they wanted to know what I was doing; they followed me; they dared to confront and challenge me.

  Henri Nouwen

  People, Challenges, Important

  Source: archives.wineskins.org

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• The way that the stories go in the Snicket books is just the way stories naturally go to me. They're full of misery, and yet the misery ends up being slightly hilarious. And in terms of the warnings on the back of the books, that really started as an honest assessment of their marketability.

  Daniel Handler

  Assessment, Stories, Warning

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2005.

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• I'd finished the first two [books] and they were going to to be published, and [editor] said, "We need you to write a summary that will drive people to these books." And it took forever. I couldn't think of a thing to say. I looked at the back of other children's books that were full of giddy praise and corny rhetorical questions, you know, "Will she have a better time at summer camp than she thinks?" "How will she escape from the troll's dungeon?" All these terrible, terrible summaries of books, and I just couldn't.

  Daniel Handler

  Summer, Children, Writing

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2005.

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• I think there are probably just as many adults who would miss the humor of my books, if not more, as there are children.

  Daniel Handler

  Children, Thinking, Missing

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2005.

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• It is very different. I mean, it was immediately different because it's a human being and it's not a vampire and it's not fighting monsters. This isn't the kind of movie that's got the comic book style of fighting to it. It was a bit more gritty.

  Kate Beckinsale

  Mean, Fighting, Style

  Interview with Tiffany Rose, screenrant.com. August 7, 2012.

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• I'm not really all that familiar with comic book culture. Not because I'm such a high brow intellectual and bloody European. But it's just something that I was never into. Not because of any superiority. I don't know why.

  Christoph Waltz

  Intellectual, Culture, Comic

  Source: collider.com

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• The Lord does not show Himself to a proud soul. The proud soul, no matter how many books it reads, will never know God, since by its pride it does not give place for the grace of the Holy Spirit, while God is known only by the humble soul.

  Silouan the Athonite

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• Whoever wants to approach prayer without a guide, and proudly thinks that he can learn from books, and won't go to an elder, is already halfway into delusion. But the Lord helps the humble, and if there is no experienced guide, and he goes to a confessor, whoever he may be, then the Lord will cover him because of his humility.

  Silouan the Athonite

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• Books, Manuals, Directives, Regulations. The geometries that circumscribe your working life draw norrower and norrower until nothing fits inside them anymore.

  Lord Byron

  Regulation, Fit, Geometry

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• Everyone reads a different book. That's what's interesting. Everyone sees a different film, as well. We bring our past lives to whatever work of art we're experiencing at that moment, and that's what makes it interesting. It's not mathematics. There are different answers for different people.

  Paul Auster

  Art, Past, People

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. September 6, 2008.

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• I had many wonderful experiences, received beautiful letters, and my Christian books received substantive and thoughtful reviews. But there was always argument, dispute, questions as to what I "really" believed, lectures from here and there on "the real truth," etc.

  Anne Rice

  Beautiful, Christian, Real

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