Gary Wolf Quotes
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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
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Racism is a physical experience.
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about.
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I read books. Remember those? I read them, on paper.
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In 2016, makeup has become an incredible passion and hobby for men and women, but it hasn't become mainstream.
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I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me grounded. I came from a very middle class family – poor, in fact.
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Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
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All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of my family, or the stories kids would tell me in school.
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I don't think about who the audience is for my books.
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No matter what, you've got to always follow your passion in life and always keep learning.
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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
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The rivalry between the Montague and the Capulet kids seems very modern to me. Juliet is a free spirit, full of untapped love and passion. I think a lot of girls can relate to her. And it's very relevant in terms of kids defying their parents.
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I like to do comedy. It's my real passion. I want to make people laugh.
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I was lucky. My father raced bikes. He gave me the passion very early. I had my first bike when I was three or four years old.
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May books spread the world over!
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My mum was a nurse, and her passion was geriatric care. I used to love listening to the old people's stories in her nursing home and picturing myself in their place. They'd say, 'I went to school in a horse and cart,' and I'd just think 'Wow!' I'd picture myself in their place - acting was a natural progression.
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Travel is a caprice in childhood, a passion in youth, a necessity in manhood, and an elegy in old age.
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What a happy woman I am living in a garden, with books, babies, birds, and flowers, and plenty of leisure to enjoy them! Yet my town acquaintances look upon it as imprisonment, and I don't know what besides, and would rend the air with their shrieks if condemned to such a life. Sometimes I feel as if I were blest above all my fellows in being able to find my happiness so easily. I believe I should always be good if the sun always shone, and could enjoy myself very well in Siberia on a fine day. And what can life in town offer in the way of pleasure to equal the delight of any one of the calm evenings I have had this month sitting alone at the foot of the verandah steps, with the perfume of young larches all about, and the May moon hanging low over the beeches, and the beautiful silence made only more profound in its peace by the croaking of distant frogs and hooting of owls?
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For too much of history, we've viewed the world's precious resources - both environmental and human - as things to extract, to make the most of in order to maximize their potential.
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Storytelling is not what I do for a living - it is how I do all that I do while I am living.
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Music's golden tongueFlatter'd to tears this aged man and poor.
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Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.
