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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
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am becoming increasingly difficult to please as a reader, but I adore being surprised by a really wonderful book, written by someone I've never heard of before.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that writing texts, publishing texts, selling texts in a physical book store is one of the important tools for breeding this new generation.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just focus on getting the first scene right, with a few lines about the overall plot, and then the book grows organically.
- Business Model
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- Nov 07, 2020
You need to be naive enough to do things differently. No big publishing house would have allowed us to co-create a fully designed, four color business book in landscape format - because it was contrary to the publishing industry logic. However, we thought of Business Model Generation as a product, not just a book - similar to Apple products.
- Nov 07, 2020
A book suggests a whole world and story that I could have never thought of in a million years.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
My friends found out that I was writing a book on Twitter. It didn't seem worth mentioning over dinner. They're all so successful themselves.
- Personality
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing is when you play a character it's the persona you bring across from a book to film, or book to script to film. If I play Frank Sinatra, there's gonna be things I do in a movie that Frank might not have done, but it's the personality that comes across.
- Good Movies
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- Nov 07, 2020
It would be lovely to sit under the radar and make good movies and have just enough recognition so that you could book jobs, but not so that it affects your life.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom is a self-taught home cook, so books that offer guidelines on how to organize menus are critical to 'cook from the book' people like her.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love 'The Gourmet Cooking School Cookbook' by Dione Lucas. A huge source of information and inspiration. The book is organized by menu, and the recipes are unusual and exciting.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Two years passed, and I had no second book to follow 'Roots.' Four years passed, six years. When a decade had passed without me having another book to follow 'Roots,' I was having serious private frustrations with myself.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
We had a comic book in Denmark called 'Valhalla,' and I read it every time I had the chance. So I remembered the authentic stories from that comic book - Thor and Odin and Freya, I know all those stories.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I've learnt is to be in the now. It's something my mum has always said to me, and when I read a book called 'The Power of Now' by Eckhart Tolle, I realised just how important it is.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020