Alberto Manguel Quotes
A society can exist - many do exist - without writing, but no society can exist without reading.
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I've worked so hard since I was 18 years old, and I'd hate for the memories to be boiled down to being a Melania Trump impersonator.
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I do no writing while I'm in Belgrade visiting my grandma.
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I did 'Lone Star Love' in 2007 with Randy Quaid, and that was supposed to come to Broadway at the Belasco and a marquee went up and everything... and it all fell apart, and that marquee came right down, and we got severance pay. And, it was very sad.
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When I look at myself, I'd like not to have hair on the top of the ceiling.
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I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence.
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In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis.
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I'm a great bum, and I'm a pretty good director.
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A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.
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We do violence to the consciousness of a past age when we divide what was indivisible to it: the one sacred truth of the Christian creed.
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If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.
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The thing I find really scary about ghosts and demons is that you don't really know what they are or where they are. They're not very well understood. You don't know what they want from you. So it's the kind of thing you don't even know how to defend yourself against. Anything that's unknown and mysterious is very scary.
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People come over, and we watch things like 'The Paul Lynde Halloween Special.' I have a hot tub. Everybody puts on a bathing suit and we splash around.
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It's always an honour doing anything for your country.
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I don't see why OPEC countries should continue to cut production just to keep the price of oil high. This will not affect the industrial countries alone, it will also hit poor countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Who will look after them?
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I'm always looking to do things that are really different from each other.
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I draw and play the piano badly. But when I'm doing those things, I'm concentrating so hard there's no room for worry. I find that onstage, too.
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I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.
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I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.
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I'm so busy these days. I forget everything but my lines.
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Lord of the Rings made me realize that I'm not interested in doing anyone else's work.
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I teach a 14-week semester, and one of the things I do when I have to teach literature is, for the first half hour of the class, I have the students write the beginning of a new story every week. At the end of the semester, even if they have learned nothing about literature, at least they'll have 14 beginnings that they can take with them.
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I've moved on to Plan B now, writing novels.
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Writing-wise, I started when I was 17. Whatever was bothering me, I could just write about it in a song. I was in the west suburbs of Chicago, then I moved an hour south, and then I went to school up on the South Side - Saint Xavier, though I was at Purdue for a second before I dropped out.
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A society can exist - many do exist - without writing, but no society can exist without reading.
