Eleanor Brown Quotes
She never managed to find herself in these books no matter how hard she tried, exhuming traits from between the pages and donning them for an hour, a day, a week. We think in some ways, we have all done this our whole lives, searching for the book that will give us the keys to ourselves, let us into a wholly formed personality as though it were a furnished room to let. As though we could walk in and look around and say to the gray-haired landlady behind us, "We'll take it."

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The hardest thing in the world for a writer is to amass a readership. So many good books come out, and so many good books disappear.
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At some hotels, I feel like I have to be dressed to the nines - perfectly eccentric - to walk out the door.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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I said, to be a New Yorker you have to live here for six months, and if at the end of the six months you find you walk faster, talk faster, think faster, you're a New Yorker.
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Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn't answer the phone.
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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
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Books are the heart of any home, and I spend hours going through books for design inspiration.
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I love books about treks and journeys into the unknown.
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I was about 11 or 12 when I began to pick up my mother's books.
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My mom will make me walk the dogs or take out the trash when I go home.
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I was always more interested in my books and my writing than going out. It's OK to say I'm a nerd. That's me.
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My favourite author as a child and teenager, and who I still re-read now, is K. M. Peyton. She writes very truthfully; sometimes I'm not sure if I've actually done things or just experienced them in her books.
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Travel teaches as much as books.
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At Tiger Stadium, the dugouts are so low that you walk in and hit your head on the ceiling. People would say, 'Don't feel bad. Ty Cobb did the same thing.'
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Tonight I'm going to shower and then just walk for about four hours and look at the moon.
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The second I walk onto the set and I know that there's a camera and I know that there's a David Twohy behind that camera, there is zero pressure. There is just me jumping into a pool called 'Riddick.' It's the most free I am. It's like channeling something.
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Music has become so ever-present in our lives. You can't walk through a shopping mall or go into a restaurant without what we used to call Muzak.
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We have developed overlays for the keys of the cash registers with the help of the Braille Institute, so that blind crew members can take orders and help our guests.
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What a blessing it is to love books. Everybody must love something, and I know of no objects of love that give such substantial and unfailing returns as books and a garden.
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In Men in Black, it was a very small character, no pun intended.
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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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Growing up in Miami, I had all these great, strong influences. You know, being Cuban and the Latin influence, but also the strong hip-hop influence.
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With a first season, you never really know how viewers or the network are going to react to a show.
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She never managed to find herself in these books no matter how hard she tried, exhuming traits from between the pages and donning them for an hour, a day, a week. We think in some ways, we have all done this our whole lives, searching for the book that will give us the keys to ourselves, let us into a wholly formed personality as though it were a furnished room to let. As though we could walk in and look around and say to the gray-haired landlady behind us, "We'll take it."