Alberto Manguel Quotes
A society can exist - many do exist - without writing, but no society can exist without reading.
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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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Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.
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My father instilled in me - of utmost importance and innate in me is the yearning to determine for myself - to define God, to define holiness for myself.
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I've trained myself to find time to exercise relaxation of the body. I have these programs - I just listen to the instructions, and they're simple. Sometimes you just hold your hand tight and keep your breath - you hold it, hold it, feel all the tension, and then relax.
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For a kid in London, Hollywood seems like such a mythical place.
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Writing for me is cutting out the fat and getting to the meaning.
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I was a huge rereader, so I've read all the Chronicles of Narnia, at minimum, 13 times each. In reading that series, I realized that someone had written those books, and that was that person's job. And I thought, 'That is the job for me. That is the job I'm going to have when I grow up.'
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A society can exist - many do exist - without writing, but no society can exist without reading.
