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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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
Octavia E. Butler
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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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People will turn their noses up at a sequel or that type of thing, but Pixar really works hard - if they're making a sequel - to make a sequel an original movie, to make it an original story.
Dan Scanlon
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Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different from doing radio.
Ira Glass
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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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I don't get my inspiration from books or a painting. I get it from the women I meet.
Carolina Herrera
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Never doubt that one person can make a difference.
Ingrid Newkirk
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Oh, so seldom does fate cast our enemy into our hands, to do with as we will.
Donna Leon
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We who are left, how shall we look again Happily on the sun or feel the rain Without remembering how they who went Ungrudgingly and spent Their lives for us loved, too, the sun and rain?
Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
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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