Famous Quotes: Book

I used my aviation contacts to open a travel agency. I used to book Caribbean flights.
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I've just finished my 20th book this past year and I'm working on my 21st book about the Middle East right now that I'll finish this year. And I get up early in the morning and when I get tired of the computer and tired of doing research, I walk 20 steps out to my woodshop and I either build furniture or paint paintings. I'm an artist too.
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Instead, I think over the years we have cut the strength of marriage and relationships by the law and weakened the institution. We have tried to deal with relationships with no-fault divorce, with child custody, with so many other avenues; and it has not helped.
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Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.
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There's my education in computers, right there; this is the whole thing, everything I took out of a book.
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My dad was a tyrant. He used to physically beat the crap out of us.
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I've always been an avid reader. If I don't have a book in the car, I'll stop and pick one up just to have something to read. I don't even remember learning to read.
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I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.
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We feel unsatisfied until we know ourselves akin even with that greatness which made the spots on which it rested hallowed; and until, by our own lives, and by converse with the thoughts they have bequeathed us, we feel that union and relationship of the spirit which we seek.
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I don't know the history of my sport. I'm not like those people who know everything.
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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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Before I was reading science fiction, I read Hemingway. Farewell to Arms was my first adult novel that said not everything ends well. It was one of those times where reading has meant a great deal to me, in terms of my development - an insight came from that book.
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I didn't grow up identifying with beauty. I grew up thinking I could be smart and funny - those are the things I got feedback on.
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Then, of course, there are those sad occasions when a poet or a writer has not grown, and one has to let them go because they're just not making headway. But we have a very clear personal relationship with the authors.
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I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
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I had a lot of resentment for a while toward Kim Novak. But I don't mind her anymore. She's okay. We've become friends. I even asked her before this trip for some beauty tips.
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People say women shouldn't have long hair over a certain age, but I've never done what everyone says.
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Trust is built with consistency.
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If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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I think it has something to do with being British. We don't take ourselves as seriously as some other countries do. I think a lot of people take themselves far too seriously; I find that a very tedious attitude.
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