George W. Plunkitt Quotes
You can’t study human nature in books. Books is a hindrance more than anything else
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I didn't know I wanted to act until it was around 21. I had just come back to Los Angeles after two and half years of traveling and working as a dancer and singer and was looking for a new performing art to study. I started taking acting classes and fell in love.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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I don't think about who the audience is for my books.
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I've seen a study in the last year that digital sound actually induces stress in the listener.
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I'm a huge fan of e-books, but the more I buy and download, the more I worry that someone could just take them all away from me.
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The identification of the genes which determine biological phenomena and the study of the control they exert on these phenomena has proven to be the most successful approach to a detailed understanding of the mechanism of biological processes.
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My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.
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I'm a big reader, so when I was in 'Pride and Prejudice,' or, like, in Poirots and Marples, those are all books that I loved, and so it was really exciting for me to inhabit characters from literature that I knew and recognized.
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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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There's detailed information on how to assemble a nuclear weapon from parts. There's books about how to build a nuclear bomb.
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Twitter is fun because it lets me stay in touch with all my original readers who grew up with my books. I love hearing from readers instantly on Twitter.
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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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There are so many ways to tell a story. With multiplatform books, we are reimagining what literacy can be.
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My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall.
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I make it a point to study the character I do, and if the story demands that I wear a particular outfit, I'm game.
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The wise are above books.
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Most of my life wasn't about knowledge from books, but experiential knowledge.
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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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You know that thing people say, 'poetry is the hardest, stories are the second hardest, novels are the easiest?' I'm here to tell you that novels are the hardest. Writing a novel is unbelievably difficult. It's nightmarish.
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The moral and intellectual character of the Africans is widely different in different nations.
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You can’t study human nature in books. Books is a hindrance more than anything else
