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.
Samuel Butler
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We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.
Samuel Goldwyn
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Oscar Wilde
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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.
Baltasar Kormakur
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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.
Vicky McClure
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I read books. Remember those? I read them, on paper.
Frances McDormand
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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.
Salman Rushdie
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Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.
Gail Carson Levine
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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.
Zoe Kazan
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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.
Warren Spector
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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.
Aaliyah
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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
W. H. Auden
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I love books about treks and journeys into the unknown.
Pat Conroy
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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.
Laura Fraser
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You will always see big, chunky bags around me. I have always been fond of bags. Bags are extremely essential because I keep my books in them.
Yami Gautam
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When 5150 came out rock was king. Post Nirvana and Pearl Jam 1996 is a different story.
Gary Cherone Van Halen
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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.
Daisy Berkowitz
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I steer clear of books with ugly covers. And ones that are touted as 'sweeping,' 'tender' or 'universal.'
Rachel Kushner
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Love is the foundation of all obedience.
Alexander MacLaren
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I do like to have guns around. I don't like to carry them. But I like - if somebody is going to come into my house and I have not put out the welcome mat, I want to stop them.
Maya Angelou
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I wanted him to see in that plate of pasta everything that, by leaving, he would no longer be able to look at, or touch, or caress, listen to, smell: never again.
Elena Ferrante
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I do not speak for the White House correspondents association. I`m not a member.
Bill Press
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If more people were stoned there would be less violence in the world.
Tommy Chong
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There are so many ways to tell a story. With multiplatform books, we are reimagining what literacy can be.
Patrick Carman