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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
- Pictures
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of these days, I'm going to publish a book of all the pictures I did not take. It is going to be a huge hit.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you start at catering college, nobody prepares you for a book tour or public speaking.
- Mathematics
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first contact with game theory was a popular article in 'Fortune Magazine' which I read in my last high school year. I was immediately attracted to the subject matter, and when I studied mathematics, I found the fundamental book by von Neumann and Morgenstern in the library and studied it.
- Success
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always said that I want to write a book about success and my story and my brand and everything that goes with it, as a woman, as a leader, as someone who has stepped up to the plate and who opens the door for the rest of the women from the Middle East.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The End of Men' was an incendiary title, but the actual book was very sympathetic to men. It was very invested in a lot of the challenges men are facing with unemployment and the economy changing because of technology.
- Practice
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- Nov 07, 2020
God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I taught myself to read when I was three by comparing the letters in my Mother Goose book with the rhymes I had memorised.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Picture books have terrible PR amongst the children of this country. Ask any librarian: after a certain age, children just aren't interested in the picture book section anymore. It's filled with moms, strollers, and unbalanced toddlers.
- Paris
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- Nov 07, 2020
My favorite 'Eloise' book is probably 'Eloise in Paris.'
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never had a favourite book! I liked all kinds of things - science fiction, so I read Heinlen and Ray Bradbury, and I also liked reading about kids like myself, so I read Judy Blume and Norma Klein and Paula Danzinger and a lot of other writers. I also read James Herriot!
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020