- Nice
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- Nov 07, 2020
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
- Ignorance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Your first book is kind of a labor of ignorance. You don't realize the difficulty of it. Your second book is sort of a labor of fear. Then you sort of either hit a stride, or you don't.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of course, 'True Grit' is a Western, but we never considered our film a classical Western and honestly never thought about genre at all. We didn't talk about John Ford or Sergio Leone, even though we like their films. Really, we were driven only by our enthusiasm for Charles Portis's book.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
In baseball, democracy shines its clearest. The only race that matters is the race to the bag. The creed is the rule book. And color, merely something to distinguish one team's uniform from another's.
- Class Struggle
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- Nov 07, 2020
We do not believe that the Marxist program, which embodies the continuity of the experience of the actual class struggle and real revolutions of the last one hundred and fifty years, is a definitely closed book.
- Medical
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- Nov 07, 2020
Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been to Oculus a few times to do book signings and things there, and they tell me 'Ready Player One' is, like, required reading for new employees.
- Landscape
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- Nov 07, 2020
A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers.
- Nov 07, 2020
No one wants to read a math book.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like a good fun chick-lit book as much as I like historical fiction, mysteries, or biographies, I like to be well-rounded!
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most consumers don't have a good metric for deciding on whether the dictionary they want to use is a good one... so they flip the book over, then go to the back, and it says, 'Over 250,000 entries.' And they go, 'Great, this dictionary must be awesome!'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel 'The Night Circus' has a complete story arc in one book. I like it as a single volume. It feels complete to me, and I wouldn't want to stretch it out into something it's not.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Plot is not my forte. It's like I have to live in my head in the book for a while before I figure out what the story is... My process is a bit messier.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Each piece of jewellery tells a story of my life. Picking one particular piece as a favorite would be like taking a chapter out of a book.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever I finish a book, I start with a blank slate and never have ideas lined up.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very perverse. If someone tells me I have to read a book, I'm instantly disinclined to do so.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd always been interested in maritime history, especially the great liners. I'd have done a book about the Titanic if it hadn't already been done to death by James Cameron and Celine Dion.
- Rise
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- Nov 07, 2020