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		Once you get into the era of the printed book, it gets a little easier. After years and years, you make a serious survey of that literature, and then you make it more specific depending on what kind of case appears. I never set out to collect material on cheating at bowling, but I found out that after 20 years, I had a lot of material on cheating at bowling.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Ricky Jay 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Gavin Rossdale 
			 
			
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		What I look for in any book is an argument, based on evidence, that changes the way I think about something important. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Barry Schwartz 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When I did 'Don't Look Back,' I no longer had Time-Life looking over my shoulder, so I could kind of do it as I wanted, and it was like I was really correcting 'Jane.' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				D. A. Pennebaker 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				F. Sionil Jose 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Writing blurbs for books means you have to read the book, and it cuts into the business of bookselling. So every time I get a blurb from a bookseller, I try to write a thank you note. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Gabrielle Zevin 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
	
	
	
	
		It's not just in Hollywood that women run the risk of being passed by once they reach 50. It happens in real life, too. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Candice Bergen 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Benjamin Haydon 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I really can't blame anyone but myself, because I didn't have to deliver the album. But when you get caught up in the gas, and you're young, and there's so much helium going on around you, you can't decipher the real end. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Pras Michel 
			 
			
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		I think a very good system in a world with a lot of passive investors is one in which there are at least a few entrepreneurial investors, prepared to say what they think, prepared to propose a change in management, change in strategy, change in cost structure, capital structure. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Bill Ackman 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The first music-learning thing that I took seriously was piano lessons when I was a kid. I guess that was probably the only time that I was forced to perform music, because I had piano recitals, and my school also had mandatory music classes that had some performing required. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Frankie Cosmos 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Once you get into the era of the printed book, it gets a little easier. After years and years, you make a serious survey of that literature, and then you make it more specific depending on what kind of case appears. I never set out to collect material on cheating at bowling, but I found out that after 20 years, I had a lot of material on cheating at bowling. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Ricky Jay