Valerie Plame Quotes
I did a book event with a former colleague, Bob Bauer, and was so relieved that he said I got all the CIA stuff right.
Valerie Plame
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I think you live a fuller life with someone else, you know, you're firing on all cylinders. It can be a nightmare at times, we all know that, but nevertheless in the end I think to have someone else's input on anything - a book, a meal, your children, life, a walk - is fantastic.
Francesca Annis
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There's book smart, there is street smart, there's relationship smart, there's too many different kinds of smarts to know all of them. Everybody doesn't know every kind of smart. There's money smart, there's movie smart, there's computer smart. There's just too many different kinds of smarts for people to know all the smarts.
J. B. Smoove
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One half who graduate from college never read another book.
G. M. Trevelyan
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I came up in the theater, and I learned pretty quickly that reading a review, whether it's good or bad, can strangely affect the next performances, because you're reacting to something that's been said about you. So I tend to avoid that stuff pretty studiously.
Dallas Roberts
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I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.
C. S. Forester
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A book is a gift you can open again and again.
Garrison Keillor
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After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.
J. A. Konrath
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I don't read horror, ever. When I was 15, I made the mistake of reading part of 'The Exorcist.' It was the first and last horror book I've ever opened.
Dan Brown
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I don't know any member of Congress who ever said, 'I'm satisfied with the communication that we have from the White House.'
Nancy Pelosi
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If there's a major foreign policy event, the President gets on TV, the Congress doesn't.
Nate Silver
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Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it.
Barbara Ehrenreich
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
Malala Yousafzai
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I can't tell you about acting. You can develop all the skills, voice, gesture, movement, you can develop by exercise and practice but finally fundamentally it's mining from yourself, from your own personality, from what you know. If you can't know it you can have a good guess by people you know or books you've read.
Peter O'Toole
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I had read the scripts that Nora Ephron had written as a movie about Mike McAlary. We were never able to make it at HBO because we couldn't cast it properly and when I left I called Nora and said, "Look, I actually think that the movie luckyguyindustry has changed. It's very unlikely that you'd be able to make this as a movie. I actually think it's a play."
Colin Callender
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In the immediate postwar era, financial crises in advanced countries were rare events, and before 1970 did not happen at all. Since then they have occurred more often, and 2008 was the most damaging of them all to date. If we have moved back to a regime of regular financial crises - like the one we had from the 1870s to the 1930s - then our economic future will be very different from our recent past.
Alan M. Taylor
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England is my wife, America my mistress. It is very good sometimes to get away from one's wife.
Cedric Hardwicke
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I'm the kind of person that responds strongly to a challenge.
Danica McKellar
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I did a book event with a former colleague, Bob Bauer, and was so relieved that he said I got all the CIA stuff right.
Valerie Plame
