Alex Trebek Quotes
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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
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You can't hate Britney Spears because, you know what, no matter what Britney Spears been doing, she's still on TV.
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I love TV.
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In fact, I don't read newspapers any longer.
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'The Pianist' is a movie I could watch over and over again.
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TV and films are same for me. I took a decision to be an actor, and I am an actor. I never decided to be TV actor or film actor.
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I never read about photography.
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I'm happiest when I can just be a director and watch.
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My mother taught me to read.
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I didn't watch T.V. from the time I was 18 'til my mid-30s. And then I got a T.V. to watch 'The Sopranos.' I realized, 'Oh, T.V. is really interesting.'
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We are like the mechanism of a watch: each part is essential.
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I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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I am the biggest geek and fan of film and TV, and I just go through phases.
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I read Carver. Julio Cortazar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like me.
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I don't watch a lot of T.V. I only watch things via Netflix, so I only watch the things that I'm choosing to watch.
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I love to read, and I love Martina Cole.
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I am always surprised people are surprised that people haven't read things.
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I can watch films and say how technically beautiful they are, but I'm not impressed by any technicality.
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I love the melodies in the Old Testament, how preachers highlight them when they read from the Scripture. But I was influenced forever by the New Testament. I love the Beatitudes, informing us that the meek shall inherit the earth.
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I had very good eyes once. Though it's another thing to say what I saw. In my experience, it is entirely possible to watch something happen and not to see it at all.
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Rian Malan was one of the first younger writers to perceive and write about a darkness in the South African psyche that goes deeper than mere politics. To some extent, that's my territory, too.
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If I see something that's extremely challenging, I'm like, 'That seems really hard. Let's try it.' It's just my personality.
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If we always thought like that, why would we study physics, why would we think of cosmology, why would we do any kind of research? Because we know already so much that there is no one person who can contain all that information.
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I go through these cycles where I read a lot and then watch TV a lot.
