Heather Brooke Quotes
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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I had no trouble going from radio to TV - I just thought of TV as radio with pictures.
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Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
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Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
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The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
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I read books. Remember those? I read them, on paper.
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My films do have characters who have trouble escaping the world around them.
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My iron game. I get into trouble a lot with my driver, so I tend to hit 3-wood off the tee.
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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
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I'm a big reader, so when I was in 'Pride and Prejudice,' or, like, in Poirots and Marples, those are all books that I loved, and so it was really exciting for me to inhabit characters from literature that I knew and recognized.
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The trouble with children is that they're not returnable.
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I am not scared of anyone. I will write and publish my books.
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It meant something to see people who looked like me in comic books. It was this beautiful place that I felt pop culture should look like.
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I don't like books that seem to want to teach me things. Which is not to say that one doesn't learn from books – but you do your own learning in your own way.
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Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.
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I collect books - a lot of books.
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I still buy actual books. The smell, having it in your hands - there's really no substitute.
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In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.
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Which meant I spent my spare time learning theory, studying dead languages and reading books like Essays on The Metaphysical by John "never saw a polysyllabic word he didn't like" Cartwright.
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I never read reviews at all. I'm proud of the work I did.
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I like to write books and cause trouble.
