Michael Finkel Quotes
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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
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The only reason that it takes me seven years to do stuff is because I just don't really have a plan.
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What we've seen of Rey, she looks like she can handle her stuff. So most of the comments I get are from parents who say how wonderful it is that their little girls can see this character.
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I like risky stuff.
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I never read about photography.
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My mother taught me to read.
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It's the comedy that guides me. The acting and all that stuff comes second. It's equally important, but I just try to do that as best as I can.
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I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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I love to read, and I love Martina Cole.
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When I was 17 or 18 I wanted to become a wine expert, and my parents wouldn't let me drink. So I was devastated. All I could do was read, and I read and I read. And I'd read something like, you know, 'Subtle hints of cassis.'
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You can't believe everything you read. I am only six foot three, by the way.
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I read a lot of thrillers, especially American crime novels.
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If utopian fiction became the new trend, I wouldn't read it.
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I don't look at the tabloids. I don't read the tabloids.
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People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
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I read Spider-Man, and that's how I knew about Wilson Fisk.
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Agents are essential, because publishers will not read unsolicited manuscripts.
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But in my homeboys' high school, it's not like that. They don't have trips to go see this Broadway play, they don't read things we read. They didn't know when I was like: 'Yo, Shakespeare's dope.'
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Revolutionaries are not infallible.
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Even what those with the greatest reputation for knowing it all claim to understand and defend are but opinions.
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When my parents went off to Knoxville to work, I lived with my father's mother. She was strict - the kind who starched and ironed dresses. I had to sit more than I played. Oh, I was miserable. I liked being out with the animals. I'd come in the house with my hair pulled out, sash off the dress, dirty as heck. I was always getting spanked.
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The minister should preach as if he felt that although the congregation own the church, and have bought the pews, they have not bought him. His soul is worth no more than any other man's, but it is all he has, and he cannot be expected to sell it for a salary. The terms are by no means equal. If a parishioner does not like the preaching, he can go elsewhere and get another pew, but the preacher cannot get another soul.
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You can read my stuff; there are not very many quotes. It's more impressionistic.