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book
I didn't learn a lot from books. I learned a lot from movies. Carole Bouquet
book reading moving
Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve. Carol Shields
book writing want
Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find. Carol Shields
book shoes marketing
What I always tell my clients is to put yourself in your potential customer's shoes - what would you want to hear about this story/book and does this [marketing material] deliver that information? Carol White
book heart telephones
Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved. Carlos Drummond de Andrade
book writing
I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down. Carlos Fuentes
book reality thinking
For me, life without literature is inconceivable. I think that Don Quixote in a physical sense never existed, but Don Quixote exists more than anybody who existed in 1605. Much more. There's nobody who can compete with Don Quixote or with Hamlet. So in the end we have the reality of the book as the reality of the world and the reality of history. Carlos Fuentes
book wife reason
Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living. Carlos Fuentes
book past years
Some writers achieve great popularity and then disappear forever. The bestseller lists of the past fifty years are, with a few lively exceptions, a sombre graveyard of dead books. Carlos Fuentes
writing people leader
I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obviously a new story has to incorporate a lot of results. But a story is a chapter in the life of a company that people want to write and want to remember. Carlos Ghosn
writing biographies like-you
One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone. Carlos Fuentes
writing literature imagine
In literature, you know only what you imagine Carlos Fuentes
writing fighting opposites
Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because shes had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy. Carlos Fuentes
writing littles needs
I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist. Carlos Fuentes
writing angel
Death is the great Maecenas, Death is the great angel of writing. You must write because you are not going to live any more. Carlos Fuentes
writing order stories
One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's a way of stalling death. Carlos Fuentes
writing ends dies
You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die. Carlos Fuentes
writing needs imagine
I need, therefore I imagine. Carlos Fuentes
ninety-nine gossip people
Gossip is never fatal until it is denied. Gossip goes on about every human being alive and about all the dead that are alive enough to be remembered, and yet almost never does any harm until some defender makes a controversy. Gossip's a nasty thing, but it's sickly, and if people of good intentions will let it entirely alone, it will die, ninety-nine times out of a hundred. Booth Tarkington
ninety people
Ninety percent of the people I grew up with didn't succeed. Eddie Perez
nine thank wonderful
We want to thank all of you for nine wonderful years. Phil Rosenthal
nine adults united-states
Nine out of ten adult Americans have a checking account. It's the most widely used financial services product in the United States. Carolyn Maloney
ninety-nine answers want
Ask who wants to live to be a hundred, and the answer is the person who is ninety-nine. Betty Comden
ninety-nine culture where-you-are
Ninety nine percent of the time it's not urgent and to create a culture where you are constantly plugged in and expected to be always-on is to create a culture of burnout. Arianna Huffington
nine
She has only been out of a place once in nine starts. Gerald Ryan
ninety-nine literature obscure
In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed. Edgar Allan Poe
nine ghost reason
Nine times out of ten we find reasons for everything going on that aren't paranormal. Brian Robertson