Quotes 961 till 980 of 1038.
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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.
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When it comes to making decisions, I will come down on the side of Nebraska every time. If I have to choose between the White House and the farmhouse, I choose the farmhouse.
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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
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When the book comes out it may hurt you - but in order for me to do it, it had to hurt me first. I can only tell you about yourself as much as I can face about myself.
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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.
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When we were shooting 'The Book Thief,' I was keeping all these journals. And I remember talking to my mom, really trying to verbalize all the experiences I was having. And I remember my mom saying, 'Ben, reflection is a retroactive process.' When you're going through it, that's the time to just let it wash over you.
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When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.
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When you make movies, you have to be preoccupied with the social problems, otherwise there is no point in making a movie. To have a story, you need a social problem. Not necessarily a problem, but something to get the idea for a story, otherwise there's no story.
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When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it.
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When you put a book together and arrange it, there's a lot of anxiety and turmoil about what order the poems should be in.
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When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.
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When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.
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When you see how the President makes political or policy decisions, you see who he is. The essence of the Presidency is decision-making.
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When you think of the huge uninterrupted success of a book like Don Quixote, you're bound to realize that if humankind have not yet finished being revenged, by sheer laughter, for being let down in their greatest hope, it is because that hope was cherished so long and lay so deep!
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When you're making music, it's meant to be shared with people. Sometimes, even if I'm writing a song, someone else brings a vibe. There's something different about it. If someone can play a better bassline than me, I'll let them do it. I'm just here to fit in and see where it goes.
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When you're making video, you're giving structure to time, which is what a composer does.
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When you're young, you don't realize the sacrifices that people are making for you.
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Whenever I open a book about jazz, I turn to the index and look for Lennie Tristano, the incredible pianist; Lee Konitz, the luminous alto sax player; and Warne Marsh, the tenor player who captured some of the most beautiful sounds in the world.
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Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.
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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]
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