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I can take a lot of pride that I can launch cookbooks and there's an audience out there that supports that.

Audience Cookbooks Launch Lot
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Up until my first book was published, I had all this potential, people would say, and I screwed up. After it, I could say: 'No, I didn't screw up.'

After Book Could First
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I did not want to write one of those sequels that famous first-book authors get into where everybody says, 'Oh yeah.'

Authors Did Everybody Famous
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I don't think you should write a book until you tell the absolute truth. You can't do that until you're 85, and I don't want to live that long. I've always prided myself on knowing when to get off, and I hope it works out that way.

Absolute Absolute Truth Always Book
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I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I'm not in a hurry, I will lie on the floor on a rug, look through some books and magazines, and maybe listen to music and try to do stretching exercises to tune up.

Books Exercises Floor Get
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Engage yourself in things that will profit you. Read books that will empower you. Watch and listen to materials that will inspire you and not things that will break your confidence.

Profit you Yourself Read book Inspire you
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
Books Enough Good Life
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Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually read all, or almost all, the guaranteed Hundred Best Books. God save us from reading nothing but the best.

Actually Almost Anybody Best
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I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them.

Any Anyone Books Ever
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The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need.

Age Book Depends Experience
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A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

Again Age Book Building
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To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.
Characteristics Combine Dope Fiend
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

Human nature Weak
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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

Books Furniture Beautifully furnishes
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Books are the windows through which the soul looks out.
Books Windows Soul
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I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book.

Because Book Dictionary Else
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I grew up in a place where books were very, very scarce, and I loved to read. I used to read the writing on my breakfast Ovaltine over and over again because it was in front of me, and I couldn't help but read anything that was in front of me.

Again Anything Because Books
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Honest to God, I do all the research on these books myself.
Books God Honest Myself
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Whenever I start a book, I swear it's going to be a short one. But then it's, 'Who was his grandfather? And how did he get there in the first place? And what kind of animals is he chasing?'

Animals Book Chasing Did
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I'll tell you, I think that the Internet has provided an enormous boost to film criticism by giving people an opportunity to self publish or to find sites that are friendly.

Boost Criticism Enormous Film
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Books are the windows through which the soul looks out. A home without books is like a room without windows.
Books Windows Soul Looks out
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A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never

Book Good company Conversation Loquacity
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Each book has a secret history of ways and means.

Each book Secret history Means
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There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.

Schoolmasters Everybody Employ Intelligent
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There is a kind of fear, approaching a panic, that's spreading through the Baby Boom Generation, which has suddenly discovered that it will have to provide for its own retirement.

Approaching Baby Boom Discovered
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It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries in life.

Man's duty Have books Luxury Life
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Write your own book instead of reading someone else’s book about success.

Write Won book Reading Success
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It's a shameful thing to admit for someone who writes such long books, but I read so slowly that I almost subvocalize.

Admit Almost Books Long
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I always sympathize with people who complain about the length of my books. It would take me a year to get through one of them.

About Always Books Complain
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There were 900 books on Washington when I began writing on him.
Began Books Him Washington
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
Produce Mighty book Theme
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I have written a wicked book, and feel spotless as the lamb.

Have written Wicked book Lamb
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The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free.

Past Textbook Tyrants Bible
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When I am dead, I hope it may be said: "His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.

Dead Hope Sins Were scarlet
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I know a bit about selling books, and you need a good title - a catchy concoction with a little Cajun spice, something that will make folks stop in the aisles, turn away from the Grisham novels and the latest crazy diet fad, and pick up your masterpiece.

About Away Bit Books
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Studying cows, pigs and chickens can help an actor develop his character. There are a lot of things I learned from animals. One was that they couldn't hiss or boo me.

Actor Animals Boo Character
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Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone
Wisdom When Derived Books alone
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I wanted to see if I could write a good book.

Book Could Good Good Book
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A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.

Bad Book Cannot Compared
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It is not a very difficult task to make what is commonly called an amusing book of travels. Any one who will tell, with a reasonable degree of graphic effect, what he has seen, will not fail to carry the reader with him; for the interest we all feel in personal adventure is, of itself, success.

Adventure Amusing Any Book
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One of the things I've learned as a filmmaker is to have some aspect of the movie be something that I admire greatly, whether that's an actor I'm working with, the subject matter, or a book.

Actor Admire Aspect Book
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I'm a huge Cormac McCarthy fan and have read every book of his.
Book Every Fan His
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There's a tacit belief that actors shouldn't write books, they're sort of allowed to direct movies but there will be a lot of skepticism, and they shouldn't do artwork or music. There are these invisible roadblocks to gain entree to these areas for actors, and you kind of have to crash through those invisible barriers.

Actor Allowed Area Artwork
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I will write another book if I feel like it.
Another Book Feel I Feel
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I write abundantly. And then my next step is to struggle to reduce the ornament, to reduce the abundance-to prune the book, in other words, the way one prunes a tree-so it can grow. This is my idea of a book.

Write abundantly Next step Struggle
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I'd like to do something involving jazz. But books are how I earn my living, and I'd like to stay with the horse I rode in on.

Books Earn Horse How
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I read more history books than anything else.
Anything Anything Else Books Else
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I don't like a bunch of writers sitting around, puffing smoke, they like this book, he wrote this - tell me a dirty joke, you know. It's just not my style, I've never been that kind of person.

Around Been Book Bunch
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I love the language of, you know, the old black country man with a blues guitar and... boots and the quick banter.

Black Blues Boots Country
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I type most of my books for the first chapter or two - I use a manual typewriter for the first 50 pages or so - and then I move to the computer. It helps me keep the work lean so I don't end up spending 10 pages describing a leaf.

Books Chapter Computer Describing
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