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The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

Book Only Page Read
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The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.

Page Read Travel World
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A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe.

Describe Movie Second Image
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It's difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be interesting. I break mine up perhaps sooner than I should in terms of the usage of the English language.

Solid Break Feel Term
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People don’t know what they want until you show it to them. That’s why I never rely on marketing research. Our task is to read things that are not yet on the page.

People Rely Marketing Research
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Before I write the first page of a novel, I spend a long time creating detailed backgrounds for my characters. I imagine the experiences that have formed them, what makes them happy, angry, fearful, and what they yearn for.

Angry Backgrounds Before Characters
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Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scene you're trying to write. Writing about is easier than writing, and chances are, it will give you your way in.

About Chances Easier Find
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As long as my face is on page one, I don't care what they say about me on page seventeen.

About Care Don't Care Face
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All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

Books Done Lying Magic
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In addition to building better products, a more open world will also encourage businesses to engage with their customers directly and authentically. More than four million businesses have Pages on Facebook that they use to have a dialogue with their customers. We expect this trend to grow as well.

Addition Also Better Building
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Whatever is on the page is what I'm married to. I'm very prepared. I'm a thespian. I don't like to improv. I don't like to go off course 'cause I think that's where stuff happens. When you stick to the material 'cause it's written so well, that's where the magic happens.

Whatever Page Married Very
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I hate writing about personal stuff. I don't have a Facebook page. I don't use my Twitter account. I am familiar with both, but I don't use them.

About Account Am Both
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There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them.

Beginning Between Book Difference
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I love writing but hate starting. The page is awfully white, and it says, 'You may have fooled some of the people some of the time, but those days are over, giftless. I'm not your agent, and I'm not your mommy; I'm a white piece of paper. You wanna dance with me?' and I really, really don't. I'll go peaceable-like.

Agent Dance Days Fooled
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There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.

Any Away Book Lands
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The Sun in London ran a front page declaring my bum a national treasure. I really did laugh at that. Its not like it can actually do anything, except wiggle.

Sun London Ran Front
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The Bible’s purpose is not so much to show you how to live a good life. The Bible’s purpose is to show you how God’s grace breaks into your life against your will and saves you from the sin and brokenness otherwise you would never be able to overcome… religion is ‘if you obey, then you will be accepted’. But the Gospel is, ‘if you are absolutely accepted, and sure you’re accepted, only then will you ever begin to obey’. Those are two utterly different things. Every page of the Bible shows the difference.

Bible Good life Grace Save
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The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.

Day Evening King Sun
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The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.

Visible Words Pages Blank
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What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.

Any Call Exclude Mostly
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The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history.
Path Free Society Simple
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I'd like to meet fewer people who say 'Oh, I want to write a book, here are 10 pages I've written,' and more 'Oh, I want to write a book, here are 300 pages I've written.'

Book Fewer Here Like
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Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.

Between Certain Certain Things Characters
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My whole thing is, I've got to be as good, as courageous as what's written on the page.

Courageous Good Got Page
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I will throw all my best efforts into it, my thoughts and political observations, but ultimately I want to create a narrative that keeps you turning the pages and leaves you with a sense that this thing has a reason for being there.

Being Being There Best Create
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Comic-book pages are vertical, and movie screens are relentlessly horizontal. But it's all the same form. We use different tools, but we get the job done. I'm completely in love with CGI. It's great for conveying a cartoonist's sense of reality.

Cartoonist CGI Different Done
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I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.

Accomplishments Always Failures First
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Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.

Book Vast Page Human
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I enjoy the freedom of the blank page.
Blank Blank Page Enjoy Freedom
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I still get up every morning at 4 A.M. I write seven days a week, including Christmas. And I still face a blank page every morning, and my characters don't really care how many books I've sold.

Blank Face Books Care
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The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.

Prolonged slavery Darkest page Human history
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I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your Oscar acceptance speech

Acceptance Also Care Don'tCare
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When you deal with a comedian who has a specific act, you can't hold 'em back. You got to work with 'em, dude. What you think, I'm just gonna do what's on the page, say 'yes sir, no sir'? I'm creatively beyond that.

Act Back Beyond Comedian
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I get newspapers from Britain and other countries twice a week and read them almost page to page. Sometimes I find I'm reading things I don't even need to read, because my mind is still hungry.

Almost Because Britain Countries
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My ex-husband is very involved in raising our beautiful children. We're very lucky because we both grew up in working families in middle America. We're on the same page that way.

America Beautiful Because Both
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I set a goal for myself everyday when I write - 10 pages a day - and it's much harder because I'm too dumb to turn off my Twitter and everything so it's always on and it's a real distraction. It's a major distraction.

Always Because Day Distraction
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I should be concentrating on writing pages

Concentrating Pages Should Writing
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When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn't writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around.

Around Get He Lie
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I don't claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday I'm home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book, 'Through the Year with Jimmy Carter.'

About Bible Book Carter
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We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.
Tear out Single page Life Book
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What is ironic is that Allen Ginsberg's importance was in its twilight for so many years that it took his death to bring it to the front page. He electrified an entire world!

Allen Bring Death Entire
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We either accept weaknesses in good people or we have to tear pages out of the Bible.

Accept Bible Either Good
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Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.

Food Give Menu Metaphysics
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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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I tend to write out the first iteration of a lyric here and then go over here and make variations on it, on the page opposite.

First Go Here Lyric
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Most relationships that are celebrated on the pages of newspapers don't really make it

Relationship Newspaper Make it Celebrated
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When I am dead, no pageant train shall waste their sorrows at my bier. Nor worthless pomp of homage vain stain it with hypocritic tear.

Am dead Pageant train Waste Sorrows
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Girls you've gotta know when it's time to turn the page.

Girls Time Turn The page
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One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.' To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: 'This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.

One recipe Happiness Entitlement Added
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my pen cannot contain you,it spills all over heart's diary,confessions of my blue spirit,how you possess every page,with your beauty of sonnets, mere paper becomes holy grail.

My pen Contain you Heart's diary Confessions
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