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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
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I read. I order books from the States. I literally go into bookstores, close my eyes, and take things off the shelf. If I don't like the book after a bit, I don't finish it. But I like to be surprised.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
I read 'Scarlett' recently, and that was a killer comic book. The 'Black Widow' was pretty rockin'. There is a big list of killer chicks that are just rockin'.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
Insofar as there is an anxiety of influence for a biographer, it may be that each new book is undertaken in reaction to the previous book.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
My next book is on the Salem witch trials. As a small-town Massachusetts girl, this makes me very happy. So does the reunion with documents!
- Something
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think with every book you realize you are partway through and there is something really elementary that you should have researched.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
An interesting thing about book groups, it seems to me, is that there is no correlation between a brilliant book and a brilliant discussion. The first seems sometimes even to undermine the second.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes I feel like 'Avenue Q' or even 'Book of Mormon' might not have happened without 'Urinetown.' 'Urinetown' sort of paved the way, just in terms of what Broadway would accept in its houses. It just blows my mind, the stuff 'Book of Mormon' gets away with. It's way farther across the line than 'Urinetown' ever was.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
People say there's a book in everyone but I'm not sure there is. There might be a pamphlet in me.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like cooking but I don't know much and whenever I enter the kitchen, my mother sends me out! Because whenever I try a dish from a book, it comes out bad.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020