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		We book our exports forward for more than a year, and so we have a fixed rate. We do not get the spot rate that we see in the market every day.
	
	  Baba Kalyani Baba Kalyani
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		'Life's That Way' was an extraordinarily difficult book to write, because it wasn't written as a book. It was written as a journal of events that were happening as I wrote it, without the space or time either to digest or analyze those events and without the hindsight and peace that writing in the aftermath would have provided.
	
	  Jim Beaver Jim Beaver
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		I didn't want it to be a book that made pronouncements.
	
	  Penelope Lively Penelope Lively
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		Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives,
Live regist'red upon our brazen tombs
And then grace us in the disgrace of death;
When, spite of cormorant devouring Time,
Th' endeavor of this present breath may buy
That honor which shall bate his scythe's keen edge
And make us heirs of all eternity.
	
	  William Shakespeare William Shakespeare
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		As an author, you can't expect a movie to be an illustration of the book. If that's what you hope for, you shouldn't sell the rights.
	
	  Bernhard Schlink Bernhard Schlink
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		The last book I read was the book I've been rereading most of my life, The Fountainhead.
	
	  Vince Vaughn Vince Vaughn
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		If I give a book as a gift, it is invariably a children's book with beautiful artwork and a simple text. I adore the feel of them, the care taken in the artwork, and the high visual stimulation that sets off the simple but often powerful message the text conveys.
	
	  Kim Harrison Kim Harrison
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		I read just endlessly, ceaselessly, almost every book, it seems!
	
	  Alice Paul Alice Paul
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		People don't come out for book events. They want to feel an emotion and be entertained.
	
	  Neil Strauss Neil Strauss
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		There is a peculiar aesthetic pleasure in constructing the form of a syllabus, or a book of essays, or a course of lectures. Visions and shadows of people and ideas can be arranged and rearranged like stained-glass pieces in a window, or chessmen on a board.
	
	  A. S. Byatt A. S. Byatt
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		You might have a favorite book or film, but you can only watch or read it so many times before you have to let it sit and then go back and realize it's your favorite still. At some point everything gets a little stale and you have to step away from it.
	
	  Les Claypool Les Claypool
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		In a way, both the U.S. media and those wacky rioters in the Afghan-Pakistani hinterlands are very similar, two highly parochial and monumentally self-absorbed tribes living in isolation from the rest of the world and prone to fanatical irrational indestructible beliefs — not least the notion that you can flush a 950-page book down one of Al Gore's eco-crazed federally mandated low-flush toilets, a claim no editorial bigfoot thought to test for himself in Newsweek's executive washroom.
	
	  Mark Steyn Mark Steyn