Hank Green Quotes
A friend of mine once told me that, no matter how much you proofread, the first time you open the final version of your book, you will find a typo on the very first page you look at.
Quotes to Explore
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One half who graduate from college never read another book.
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I'm a stand-up comic. I'm always doing dates; it's just that, if I'm working on a project or I'm busy, I can't get out on the road or book any shows. Since the beginning of my career, I'm usually out for at least 10-15 dates throughout the year. If I have time, then I try to get at least 30-40 dates.
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I'm not a fan of self-help books - how can something be 'self-help' if the book itself is purportedly helping you?
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The writers who inspire me most are all women: Enid Blyton, Agatha Christie, Margaret Mitchell and Emily and Charlotte Bronte. As for contemporary novels, one of my favourites is 'Everyone Brave is Forgiven' by Chris Cleave. It's the sort of book to read if you've fallen out of love with reading - it reminds you just how brilliant novels can be.
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I don't perceive an audience at all when I write a book. It's pure self-indulgence.
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Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of a social event, the meeting of a book club, is a brilliant idea.
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There is a debate to be had about aid, but Moyo’s book, sadly, does not advance it. Dead Aid is poorly researched, badly argued, mendacious in its use of evidence, and pedestrian in its suggestions for alternatives.
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My first biography was 'Our Golda: The Life of Golda Meir.' To research that book, I bought a 1905 set of encyclopedias. Those books told me what each of the places Golda Meir lived in were like when she lived there.
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Every book that is banned is a badge of honor.
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I've heard people, usually writers, say that no one wrote a great book after winning the Booker, but I honestly did not feel any big pressure. 'The Gathering' did hang over me in that it was darker than I thought at the time.
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I didn't want to write a book that suggested that magic good/technology bad.
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There's a book that I read, really a great book - it's called 'Lone Survivor' and I think they're trying to make it into a movie. I would love to play Marcus Luttrell, who was the author and the 'lone survivor.' He's a national hero; he's very courageous and heroic in insurmountable danger, so it's something I'd love to explore.
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There isn't a book that has changed me, but I have favourites such as 'Pride and Prejudice' which I often re-read.
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At the end of the day, it is about the album and book and also about setting the record straight, because 'American Idol' has done a great job of defaming my name and throwing a lot of mud at me for the past two years. So that set up a lot of roadblocks for me.
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My dream was, and always had been, to write a book. To be a writer.
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I was 20 when I moved to Los Angeles. I went on probably 600 commercial auditions and couldn't book any of them.
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When I was a kid, I always thought that I'd be a comic book artist. It took a long time to start thinking that I could be a musician.
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A book might be written on the injustice of the just.
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Purity is the fruit of prayer.
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Being nice and competitive are two different things.
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Alas, criticism has always been what human beings, especially leaders, most hate to hear.
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Marry an outdoors woman. Then if you throw her out into the yard on a cold night, she can still survive.
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Religion claims to be in possession of an absolute truth; but its history is a history of errors and heresies. It gives us the promise and prospect of a transcendent world - far beyond the limits of our human experience - and it remains human, all too human.
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A friend of mine once told me that, no matter how much you proofread, the first time you open the final version of your book, you will find a typo on the very first page you look at.
