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Back when people couldn't read, other people would take newspapers and turn them into theater so that people would know what was going on in the world. That is a powerful thing.
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The cultivation of sensibility on purely personal lines may, in fact, be the very worst training for a world where only the corporate and the cooperative will matter.
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Something about being projected on a 70 foot screen makes you more attractive and appealing to the opposite sex, which is pretty scary.
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I have opened newspapers and read incredible lies.


Ken Livingstone
I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.
Randall Munroe
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We are quite a way off before people travel around the world without cash in their pockets. The growth of plastic and electronic transactions have tended to impact traveller's cheques rather than cash.
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I wanted to do pretty much a purely boy story, yes. The girls are kind of the bad guys in 'Marble Season', although that wasn't my intention. It's also a world without adults.
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I read actual physical books and have thus far avoided the electronic lure.


Khaled Hosseini
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I don't read books. I like to read newspapers and magazines, but I've never learnt to enjoy books or novels.
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I met a lot of famous people when I was about 24. And none of them seemed very appealing. And so I didn't know why I would struggle to be that kind of person.
Ethan Hawke
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
Thomas Jefferson
The most impactful comics that I've read are the ones where the artists swung for the bleachers and tried to immerse you in their world.
Adrian Tomine
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There are things about the single lifestyle that are very appealing.


Seth MacFarlane
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Music was segregated in the '80s, and then in the '90s the boundaries started to break down, and rock kids got into electronic music. But then you got this reverse snobbery where people would only listen to electronic music and not rock.
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Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.
Norman Mailer
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I remember, when I was writing 'Traffic,' talking to top federal drug-enforcement officials and having them say they read it and found it very good and believable, except the scene where the girl describes her resume.
Stephen Gaghan
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At any given time, no matter how deeply you are in love with one person, they're appealing to a very specific side of you.
Scott Porter
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The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village.


Marshall McLuhan
Wherever I am, I start my day, it's the same. I'm not an early bird. I'm not waking up at five o'clock, six o'clock; it's usually seven-thirty, eight o'clock, and I will then read the newspapers, emails from around the world and make phone calls.
Roustam Tariko
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Where would we be without inhibitions? They're quite useful things when you look at some of the things humans do if they lose them.
A. S. Byatt
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