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When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination. Ahmet Zappa
Book Imagination Would Had No-One Pick Make Read Got Praised Up Reports Just Turn
I've learned that you really cannot judge a book by its cover. Aileen Lee
You Book Judge Learned Cover Cannot Really
I was getting in my own way. I would quit jobs and step out on hope and faith, and pray to God that I would book something that would allow me to just continue to act. Aja Naomi King
Hope God Faith Me Book Own Way Out Jobs Would Something My Own Allow Step Pray Continue Quit Getting Just Act
With things like 'Dragon Ball,' in the case of fight scenes, I'd take the panel layout across two pages when the book is opened and alter it by angling them, and making them bigger or smaller, to give movement to the panels themselves. Akira Toriyama
Fight Book Panel Case Give Scenes Layout Take Smaller Opened Like Alter Ball Making Movement Bigger Them Themselves Across Pages Things Two Dragon
I'm crushed by the responsibility of writing a satirical book. Al Franken
Book Writing Responsibility Crushed Satirical
You know what? I feel my book is kind of pointless. I didn't want to do a book, but rather than tell the same old stories over and over when my wife Angie and I are out at parties, I could just hand out a bunch of books, and she won't have to hear them ever again. Al Jourgensen
You Book Old Wife Books Out Tell Kind Rather Could Pointless Feel Over Know Parties She Hear Hand Bunch Than Same Just Want Stories Again Them Ever
Pitches are like pages of a book; they're so important. The chess game; how I set you up early, and how I'll do it differently later. Al Leiter
You Game Book Important Later Like How Chess Up Pitches Pages Differently Early Set
For me, whether it's in a book or on T.V., a recipe has to be simple. I have a short attention span, so to open a cookbook and see a recipe that goes on for three to four pages, well, I've lost interest. Al Roker
Me Attention Span Book Simple Three Lost Recipe See Open Attention Well Goes Short Short Attention Span Whether Interest Span Pages Cookbook Four
I have to admit that I am really partial to the look and feel of a book. I have been that way my entire life. Al Seckel
Life Book Way Admit Entire Entire Life Partial Feel Look Am Been Really
I find myself more and more behind these days. You have to be really diligent. I don't have kids, which helps. I'm always working on something, whether a book, or a law review article that no one will ever read, or teaching. It pretty much means I work a lot, but it's all stuff I love. Alafair Burke
Work Love Myself You Book Law Will Diligent Kids Find Pretty Something More More And More No-One Stuff Days Read Always Review Lot Article Behind Whether Which Much Really Working Means Teaching Helps Ever
Television viewing has become for me a completely different experience, because I don't watch shows on a weekly basis. I wait until the DVD or I TiVo everything and wait until the end of a season and watch it all over a weekend. For me that's a really satisfying experience, like reading a book. Alan Ball
Me Experience Book Wait Reading Become Everything Television Weekend Weekly Over Like Until Because End Different Really Viewing Shows Season Satisfying Watch Basis
Former Dublin newsman Paul Lynch made his debut as a novelist a few years ago with a book called 'Red Sky in Morning,' set in mid-19th century County Donegal, where a rage-driven farmer has committed a murder with devastating results. Alan Cheuse
Morning Book Sky Made Few Results Devastating Red County Dublin His Years Years Ago Debut Committed Where Former Paul Century Farmer Novelist Set
I wish - I wish instead of just recommending these books, I could set them down at your doorstep. The collected stories of John Updike, the second volume of T.C. Boyle's collected stories, and Stanley Crouch's book about the rise and times of our genius saxophone player Charlie Parker. These are deep books, books that you can get lost in. Alan Cheuse
You Book Genius Wish Lost Down Our Books Saxophone Collected John Charlie Charlie Parker About Rise Crouch Parker Could Volume Instead Times Get Just Stories Doorstep Them Your Deep Stanley Player Second Set
In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known. Alan Dean Foster
Character Book Own Every One Book Someone My Own Directly Known Just Based Amusement
I've thought of publishing a book of my hate mail, but I don't own the rights to the letters. Alan Dershowitz
Rights Book Hate Thought Own Mail Letters Publishing
It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book. When I start writing, I do two pages a day; if I'm gonna do 320, that's 160 days. Alan Furst
Work Day Me Book Writing Three Research Nine Nine Months Months Takes Days Gonna Produce Pages Start Two
I wrote three mysteries and then a contemporary spy novel that was unbelievably derivative - completely based on 'The Conversation,' the movie with Gene Hackman. Amazingly, the character in the book looks exactly like... Gene Hackman. Alan Furst
Character Conversation Book Three Mysteries Exactly Unbelievably Gene Hackman Like Contemporary Wrote Looks Amazingly Spy Movie Then Derivative Novel Based
What I discovered is I don't like to repeat lead characters because one of the most pleasurable things in a book to me is learning about the lead. Alan Furst
Me Learning Book Pleasurable Characters About Lead Like Most Because Repeat Discovered Things
For something that's supposed to be secret, there is a lot of intelligence history. Every time I read one book, two more are published. Alan Furst
Time History Book Intelligence Every Every Time Secret One Book Something More Supposed Read Lot Published Two
I learnt that I must never finish a book with nothing else to do. Alan Garner
Book Nothing Else Must Finish Never Learnt
The ability to absorb a book and make someone else's words and story your own was exactly was I was doing on stage. Alan King
Book Words Own Stage Else Exactly Ability Someone Absorb Make Doing Story Your
I knew Bobby Dylan back in the days when he lived in the village. He used to come and see me and sing songs for me, saying they ought to go into my next collected book on American folk music. Alan Lomax
Music Saying Me Book Ought Back Collected Folk Folk Music See Songs He Knew Days Come Sing Go American Dylan Bobby Next Used Village Lived
My only problem with fans is when they turn pro. For example, when all the professional writers were fired by DC in the '60s, they brought in a generation of comic book fans who would have paid to have written these stories. Alan Moore
Generation Book Problem Fans Example Would Brought Only Fired Writers Written For Example Comic Comic Book Were Pro Stories Turn Paid Who Professional
The best book on programming for the layman is 'Alice in Wonderland'; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman. Alan Perlis
Best Book Programming Alice Layman Because Wonderland Anything
I didn't really grow up a comic book fanatic. Alan Ritchson
Book Comic Comic Book Up Fanatic Really Grow Grow Up
I didn't really grow up a comic book fanatic. I was a big baseball player, and my passion in life, in third grade, was collecting baseball cards. That was my childhood thing. Alan Ritchson
Life Book Passion Big Collecting Comic Comic Book Up Grade Childhood Fanatic Really Grow Grow Up Baseball Baseball Player Thing Player Cards Third
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