Heather Brooke Quotes
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Oscar Wilde -
Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
Calvin Coolidge -
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.
Halle Berry -
The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
W. Somerset Maugham -
I read books. Remember those? I read them, on paper.
Frances McDormand -
My films do have characters who have trouble escaping the world around them.
Lasse Hallstrom
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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.
J. R. Smith -
Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
W. H. Auden -
I am not scared of anyone. I will write and publish my books.
Taslima Nasrin -
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.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
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.
Salman Rushdie -
Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.
Orson Scott Card
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I collect books - a lot of books.
Kate Spade -
I still buy actual books. The smell, having it in your hands - there's really no substitute.
Nathan Fillion -
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.
Oscar Wilde -
I do not carry such information in my mind since it is readily available in books. ...The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.
Albert Einstein -
I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
Beverly Cleary -
My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
George Bernard Shaw
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What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance.
Neil Postman -
It's nice to see more of those meaty female characters emerging because so often in the industry, it's always about the males.
Yvonne Strahovski -
The biggest research of all when I do a character is self-examination. You look at yourself and you ask, 'How am I similar to this person and how am I different?'
Vera Farmiga -
I'm not out there trying to get press for myself nor am I trying to convince anybody that I'm living any kind of a life. I'm actually trying to convince people: I don't want you to know what I'm living, because it's none of your business.
Kevin Spacey -
I like to write books and cause trouble.
Heather Brooke