Patrick Carman Quotes
There are so many ways to tell a story. With multiplatform books, we are reimagining what literacy can be.
Quotes to Explore
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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
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We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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It's important for cinema to keep on evolving: for people, and not only teenagers, to be able to go to a movie that has huge epic scope but has an intellectual and real story to tell.
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When I watch cop shows, I really enjoy them because you can really follow the story and get involved, and the characters are always really interesting.
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I read books. Remember those? I read them, on paper.
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I'm not a very big fan of 'Slumdog Millionaire.' I think it's visually brilliant. But I have problems with the story line. I find the storyline unconvincing.
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Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.
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You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expect. You have to follow.
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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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It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect.
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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
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I love books about treks and journeys into the unknown.
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I think I've played a lesbian about five times. The first one was with Helen Baxendale in a drama called 'The Investigator,' about the conditions lesbians had to live under in the army in Britain, which was based on a true story.
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When 5150 came out rock was king. Post Nirvana and Pearl Jam 1996 is a different story.
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It's like tabloid news programs that talk about how horrible something is, while at the same time they're glorifying it as their top story.
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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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There's no story that breaks, including a five-alarm fire in Brooklyn, that I don't wish I were covering.
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I wrote my first story when I was six or seven.
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Oh yeah, we got plenty of incentive. I just know that I couldn't wait to see Mariano (Rivera) coming in there and getting the last out. We didn't get that last year. But now we've got one more game to play to finish off this story.
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Through every victory and every setback, I've insisted that change is never easy and never quick; that we wouldn't meet all of our challenges in one term, or one presidency, or even in one lifetime.
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I fantasize about going back to high school with the knowledge I have now. I would shine. I would have a good time, I would have a girlfriend. I think that's where a lot of my pain comes from. I think I never had any teenage years to go back to.
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You don't have to swing hard to hit a home run. If you got the timing, it'll go.
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There are so many ways to tell a story. With multiplatform books, we are reimagining what literacy can be.
