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It takes a lot to get people talking in airplanes. But once they start talking, you just can't shut them up.
Chuck Palahniuk
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When I came out, and for many years afterwards, it had become a habit for me to sit and read and read and read, like an obsession. I would take 20 books, and not come out until I'd finished them. It took me a while to change that habit.
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
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It's when we start working together that the real healing takes place... it's when we start spilling our sweat, and not our blood.
David Hume
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I came from a family of incredible storytellers, but I didn't start writing children's books until I was 41 years old.
Patricia Polacco
While the debate over banned books usually seems to happen just outside the gates of government, it takes on a new danger and urgency when legislators get involved. Their actions cause voices to be silenced both inside and outside the books. That's un-American.
Terrance Hayes
When you've written a movie, you then get together with a whole lot of people and make it. In many ways, I think it is far nicer to be with people rather than being completely solitary.
Neil Jordan
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I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the children's floor. When I started reading some of the books, I was so impressed.
Kate DiCamillo
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Being out and about talking to residents and representing their views is, in my view, as important to politics as the grandstanding that takes place in Westminster.
Lucy Powell
What's gratifying is that it's my books that are being read and reread until they're battered over the years. I love that.
Isobelle Carmody
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When you start talking about elections being rigged, you're pushing people beyond democratic governance. And it's a very, very dangerous thing to do.
Bruce Springsteen
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I never really know the title of a book until it's finished.


Mary Wesley
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I didn't get into entertainment until I was like 31. I didn't star in a movie until I was 46.


Paul Hogan
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It's funny to see the finished product of a movie, stuff that's so beautiful, and to remember the particulars.
Amy Ryan
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I wasn't aware that 'House on Mango Street' was so influenced by Spanish until after I finished.


Sandra Cisneros
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I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.


Carly Fiorina
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I like to look like a person. It drives me crazy when you see women in movies playing teachers, and they have biceps. It totally takes me out of the movie. I start thinking, Wow, that actress playing this part really looks great!
Emma Stone
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Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it.


Frank Lloyd Wright
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We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?


Walter Matthau
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Instead of books, art, theatre, and music being consigned to specialized niches, we might have a criticism that better reflects the eclecticism of our time, a criticism that takes in various arts all at once.
Lee Siegel
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Every once in a while, I get mad. 'The Lorax' came out of my being angry. The ecology books I'd read were dull... In 'The Lorax,' I was out to attack what I think are evil things and let the chips fall where they might.
Dr. Seuss
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