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Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring... 'How to Build a Boat.'
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Sometimes I read a book with pleasure, and detest the author.
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Sometimes, it's better to stop thinking and trust your instincts. That's what I used to do when I first started making music, but as time goes on, you can sometimes over-intellectualise things.
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Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.
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States have the responsibility to create rules and conditions for growth and development, and to channel the benefits to all citizens by providing education and making people able to participate in the economies, and in decision-making.
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Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.
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Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
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Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.
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Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
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Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of media.
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Television is becoming a collage - there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different.
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Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it.
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That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
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That was par for the course but I also found that commissions were being canceled and in fact I considered this directly libelous - I write biographies for a living as well as being a journalist - for a non fiction book to be called fiction from beginning to end.
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That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
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That's what writing is all about, after all, making others see what you have put down on the page and believing that it does, or could, exist and you want to go there.
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That's why so many stars are making pictures in Europe today. The tax guys are making thieves out of everybody.
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The age of the book is almost gone.
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The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of ''eternity''; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book.
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