Alberto Manguel Quotes
I quickly learned that reading is cumulative and proceeds by geometric progression: each new reading builds upon whatever the reader has read before.
Alberto Manguel
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I am really curious about life, about why we are all here. I notice my skin is ageing, things are changing, I've seen people dying, so that's the train we are all on.
Damien Rice
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
Umberto Eco
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'Giving 2.0' frames giving as a learning experience and encourages everyone to make giving a part of your year-round life.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
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I know Dark Phoenix is a huge part of the X-Men saga, so I'm assuming they're at least going to want to touch on it, but I don't know and I don't know whether I would want to be involved. That depends on many different things.
Famke Janssen
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
Zhu Zhu
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I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.
Lana Turner
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Not knowing the thing that's chasing you is a lot scarier than seeing it right in front of you.
Oren Peli
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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.
Dana Carvey
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You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.
Pablo Picasso
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I find Shakespeare terrifying. When Simon Russell Beale does a speech, I understand every word of it, but if I did the same speech, people would be going, 'Huh? What?'
Olivia Colman
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I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.
Fidel Castro
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If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.
Gary Busey
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If we carry on filling up the calendar, we keep on pushing the athlete, we shorten the athletes longevity. The risk is to shorten a career that could have lasted 10 years because the athlete is burnt out.
Alberto Juantorena
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Education today does not impart to the students the capacity or grit to face the challenges of daily life. The educational field has become the playing ground of ignorance.
Sai Baba
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We're sometimes treated like the stupid cousin, so I'm always drawn to characters that make you feel good about being Welsh.
Matthew Rhys
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Reading is exercise for our brains in the guise of pleasure. Books give us insight into other people, other cultures. They make us laugh. They make us think. If they are really good, they make us believe that we are better for having read them.
Karin Slaughter
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Reading is an escape, an education, a delving into the brain of another human being on such an intimate level that every nuance of thought, every snapping of synapse, every slippery desire of the author is laid open before you like, well, a book.
Cynthia Heimel
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I quickly learned that reading is cumulative and proceeds by geometric progression: each new reading builds upon whatever the reader has read before.
Alberto Manguel
