Roger Waters Quotes
There is a magic in some books / That sucks a man into connections / With the spirits hard to touch / That join him to his kind.
Quotes to Explore
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Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized.
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I read books. Remember those? I read them, on paper.
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I don't think about who the audience is for my books.
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Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
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I steer clear of books with ugly covers. And ones that are touted as 'sweeping,' 'tender' or 'universal.'
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My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.
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May books spread the world over!
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I wrote all four of my books at Starbucks.
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Travel teaches as much as books.
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I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that doesn't partake of that magic is halfway dead - it returns to its physical elements, it's just paint and canvas.
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I think we have gotten to a point as Americans, unfortunately, where we take for granted the magic that life brings and that life is really special and every life matters. We tend to go through life but not take the moment to step back and remember you are here, right now, for a very finite amount of time.
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I am not into the unrealistic realm of magic realism where birds talk.
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The Scottish Highlands are incredible. There seems to be magic and poetry everywhere.
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But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create.
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Books are still my favorite present.
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I don't normally have time to read, so when I go away I like to take a few books.
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I collect books - a lot of books.
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The newly released movie 'Noah' features a retelling of the creation story that clearly depicts Darwinian evolution transforming a single-cell organism into a monkey. The movie also seems to show magic in scenes more reminiscent of the occult than of the Bible story.
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To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
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Those differences are what color the performance, but in the movies you don't get a chance to rehearse.
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I think the reason for my fascination with craft is what it represents, what it means in our culture, what it means in our history and in humanity. It was the idea that you could go to your butcher to get something, you could go to your tailor to get this, and you could go to your cobbler to get that.
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My mom's a screenwriter, and before that, she was an actress, and my father was an actor; my stepfather was a director, so I was on sets a lot as a kid. I loved the magic of the set. You walk in, and it's a living room, and you walk outside, and it's just a piece of wood held up by another piece of wood.
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[Hiking] is not that crazy, but when you look back and you see that mountain you just climbed, you say, "I can't believe I did that."
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There is a magic in some books / That sucks a man into connections / With the spirits hard to touch / That join him to his kind.
