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		Reading has always brought me pure joy. I read to encounter new worlds and new ways of looking at the world. I read to enlarge my horizons, to gain wisdom, to experience beauty, to understand myself better, and for the pure wonderment of it all. I read and marvel over how writers use language in ways I never thought of. I read for company, and for escape. Because I am incurably interested in the lives of other people, both friends and strangers, I read to meet myriad folks and enter their lives- for me, a way of vanquishing the “otherness” we all experience.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Nancy Pearl 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		People always come up to me now and say, 'Watchmen' is the best superhero movie ever made.' I'm always saying 'That's super cool. That's nice of you to say.' But it happens now, more and more and more than it did when it first came out. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Zack Snyder 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I was raised in Harlem. I never found a book that took place in Harlem. I never had a church like mine in a book. I never had people like the people I knew. People who could not find their lives in books and celebrated felt bad about themselves. I needed to write to include the lives of these young people. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Walter Dean Myers 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I'm the one who often makes the 'Murder, She Wrote' reference, and ABC hates that, they don't want me to do that. And I say that having never actually watched 'Murder, She Wrote'. I think people have been trying to compare it to crime shows that are on right now, and all I can do is listen. I don't watch a lot of TV. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Nathan Fillion 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I wanted to make good records. But my problem is I've got a low boredom threshold, so I wanted it to look and sound different with each album, which is really tantamount to suicide, cause people lose it, they lose it - they say: 'I like that, and that's not this.' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Adam Ant 
			 
			
				Adam and the Ants  
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When I first came to the Bay area, I worked in Silicon Valley in the early to mid-'90s, and I think what mattered then was our ability as designers to create a vision around people's ideas. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Yves Behar 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Quiet people, people who aren't given to emotional outbursts, people who are economic with words - they're also fun to play, but you find yourself needing a laser precision in those roles. Otherwise you just sort of stand around, looking slightly brain-dead. You worry about being uninteresting. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Damian Lewis 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		Okay, let's talk about cartoon labels for half a second - some people think anything with a dog or a car or a colorful alien is garbage, which is not true. Look at Big Moose Red. It's, like, a $6 wine with a cheesy label, and it's actually a solid wine. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Gary Vaynerchuk 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Hollywood's like a warehouse. It's just a place that you go. What's interesting in the warehouse has to do with the creative people. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Val Kilmer 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The real guys that I knew were really cool people, who I played basketball with and traveled with on teams and knew their families and knew that they love their family. They just happen to do something that wasn't all the way legal, but it was a part of their life, and you knew that they hustled. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Mahershala Ali 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Europe can't take in huge masses of foreign people in an unlimited, uncontrolled manner. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Viktor Orban 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		But now - look, I have to take care of myself. I work out every day. I'm a dancer. I've always been an athlete, and I'm one of those people who start to go crazy if they don't run or do something. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Vanessa Carlton 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		People don't want to give up their SUVs. They don't want to turn the thermostat down in the winter and up in the summer. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ed Begley, Jr. 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
	
	
	
	
		Perhaps the greatest difference among people is between those who never have to worry about money and those who do. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				James Cook 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Howard Dean has been successful because he was clear in his opposition to the war. People appreciate a politician with the courage to say, I oppose this war. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Bianca Jagger 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Reading groups, readings, breakdowns of book sales all tell the same story: when women stop reading, the novel will be dead. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ian Mcewan 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		AWWW ON THE MAIL. The mail man delivers, once again! 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Charlie Flynn 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		What I think tailors the creativity of most people are the rules that we learn from the age we are very small - in school, our parents. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Philippe Petit 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Reading has always brought me pure joy. I read to encounter new worlds and new ways of looking at the world. I read to enlarge my horizons, to gain wisdom, to experience beauty, to understand myself better, and for the pure wonderment of it all. I read and marvel over how writers use language in ways I never thought of. I read for company, and for escape. Because I am incurably interested in the lives of other people, both friends and strangers, I read to meet myriad folks and enter their lives- for me, a way of vanquishing the “otherness” we all experience. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Nancy Pearl