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Book Quotes
Why books work the way they do.
This page highlights what books can do that film can't, including slower pacing and quiet stretches, alongside a reminder that some things simply translate poorly to screen. For a companion collection, see Books.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Noam Chomsky has a book, which I read for the first time when I was in Spain, called 'Fear of Democracy'. There is your answer. Fear of democracy. In Honduras, they had a sham democracy. It was run by elites, what was called a liberal democracy, but in reality was a false democracy.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ever since I was twelve, I dreamed of being an author. I just never had the fortitude to see any of my stories through to completion. I would start a book, get a few chapters in, and grow bored or get distracted by something else.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first book I ever really read was Plato's 'Republic,' and then I had to go over that five times or something.
- Great Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to read and dream and create music that is based on the imagery of text. If you have the combination of a great book and a great filmmaker, what could be better for the composer?
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
Regardless of what I do, whether I write a book or whether I act or whether I host, I'll always do stand-up comedy because those moments, that's what I crave. If I do something funny, and I hear a crowd laugh in that moment, we're all sharing the exact same experience and the exact same feeling.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first book. I got through that fairly early.
- Other
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- Nov 07, 2020
Til 1983, I wrote primarily for other psychologists and expected that they would be the principal audience for my book.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's absolutely clear to me that Obama has enormous intrapersonal intelligence. His book, 'Dreams from My Father,' is an amazing book, and it's obvious to everybody he has lots of intrapersonal intelligence.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's my education in computers, right there; this is the whole thing, everything I took out of a book.
- Car
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- Nov 07, 2020