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When depicting Asian people in movies, books, and television or as historical figures, it's more important to humanize them and give them all of the dimensions of humanity, and that includes sexuality. Ascribe the human the full range of human qualities. Alex Tizon
Humanity People Important Books Range Dimensions Television Sexuality Give More Qualities Historical Human Depicting Ascribe Movies Them Asian Full Figures Human Qualities
Until I read Anne Frank's diary, I had found books a literal escape from what could be the harsh reality around me. After I read the diary, I had a fresh way of viewing the both literature and the world. From then on, I found I was impatient with books that were not honest or that were trivial and frivolous. Alexandra Fuller
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Quite simply, federal laws already on the books aimed at stopping the flow of illegal immigration must be enforced. Furthermore, states must be given the resources necessary to confront the problem, which includes strengthening the border patrol. Allen West
Problem Immigration Resources Books States Furthermore Must Border Border Patrol Laws Given Federal Simply Quite Stopping Patrol Which Confront Enforced Illegal Illegal Immigration Necessary Strengthening Flow
Culture survives in smaller spaces - not in the history books that erect monuments to the nation's grand history but in cafes and cinema houses, village squares, and half-forgotten libraries. Amitava Kumar
History Culture Cinema Nation Books Monuments Libraries Smaller Houses Erect History Books Squares Survives Spaces Grand Village
I read Claire Messud's 'The Emperor's Children,' I read Joseph O'Neill's 'Netherland' - but to me, they're not 9/11 novels. In 'The Emperor's Children,' 9/11 felt to me like a piece of the plot; the novel wasn't wrestling with what 9/11 meant. And 'Netherland' felt the same way. I liked both books a lot but I don't see them as 9/11 novels. Amy Waldman
Me Books Way Claire Plot See Wrestling Both Joseph Emperor Like Liked Piece Read Felt Lot Same Children Them Meant Novel Novels
I didn't come up through the ranks of the conservative movement... I came to these revelations about my own personal politics in a realm in which those books, those ideas, the canon of conservatism, is nonexistent. Andrew Breitbart
Politics Conservative Own Conservatism Books Those Ranks About My Own Through Come Ideas Nonexistent Revelations Came Up Personal Movement Canon Which Realm
If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books. Anna Quindlen
God People Books Harvard Magazine Invented Had New She Review York New York Meant Appear Professors
I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens. Anne McCaffrey
Me World Books Something Read Comfort Shelf Closes Happens Which
I'm a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don't agonize over sentences. I write like I talk. I try to make them good books. Anthony Bourdain
Good Me Try Books Easy Pretty Write Writer Over Like Talk Make Decent Them Sentences Agonize
An author entices the readers with their words, and it is painful for them to even lose a sentence. But films and books are two different mediums and should be dealt differently. What works in a book might not work for a film. When I saw 'Anna Karenina' on screen, I didn't like it at all, whereas 'The Godfather' was legendary. Ashwin Sanghi
Work Book Words Lose Films Mediums On-Screen Books Saw Anna Like Readers Dealt Godfather Author Legendary Screen Different Whereas Them Sentence Might Should Painful Works Even Film Differently Two
What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness. Bernard Cornwell
Happiness Life Achieve Sail Mountains Books Scale See Point Write Unselfish Oceans Mean
Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood. Beverly Cleary
Will Somebody Year Books Say Give Only Take Answer Quite Often Childhood Place Your
Every human being in this world is interested in certain things. Everybody has a hobby. Some people like art; I know nothing about it. Some people like books, some people like fishing, some people like music. I like to look at cars. Bikram Choudhury
Music Art People Human Being World Car Some People Nothing Every Everybody Books Some About Like Know Look Fishing Human Hobby Being Interested Certain Certain Things Things
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another. Bono
You Gift Greatest Gift Books Give Another Greatest Person Ever
I think the success of the 'Twilight' movies, not just the books, comes down to Stephenie Meyer. Bryce Dallas Howard
Success Down Think Books Just Movies Twilight
Most of us... are simply just trying to get through the day. And wait for those times in their life that are markers, that put things into relief. That's why we like movies and books so much. Campbell Scott
Life Day Wait Markers Books Those Relief Through Put Simply Like Most Times Get Trying Just Movies Us Much Why Things
One time at the University of Colorado, at a faculty dinner, this professor said to me, 'Well, my goodness, a boy from Appa-lay-chee-a with a Ph.D!' The dinner was in her house. And I said, 'My grandparents didn't have indoor plumbing, but they had more books in their house than you do.' I was a little insulted by the Appa-lay-chee-a business. Charles Frazier
Time Me You Business Dinner Goodness Books One Time Plumbing More Colorado Faculty Had Indoor House Well Insulted Boy Said Than Little Grandparents Professor Her University
The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most. Confucius
Book Neglect Our Books Honored Rule He Attention Most Because Salesman Very Should Brings Need
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. Dan Brown
Christmas Morning Care Face Every Seven Sold Books Characters Week Blank Write Blank Page Days How Still Up Get Really Page Many Including
It's embarrassing to be involved in the same business as the mainstream comic thing. It's still very embarrassing to tell other adults that I draw comic books - their instant, preconceived notions of what that means. Daniel Clowes
Business Other Books Draw Embarrassing Tell Adult Instant Mainstream Involved Comic Comic Books Still Very Same Preconceived Means Notions Thing
In all of my books, I've emphasized that the fundamental difference between civilized and indigenous ways of being is that, for even the most open-minded of the civilized, listening to the natural world is a metaphor. Derrick Jensen
Natural World Listening Books Ways Indigenous Civilized Emphasized Between Open-Minded Most Metaphor Difference Being Natural World Even Fundamental Fundamental Difference
By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him. Desiderius Erasmus
You Will Men Minds Books Him May Burning Your Rid Luther
What women represent to the male is, historically, a big burden. It's a lovely dream, but it's the stuff of literature, art, and everything. Living up to what the male psyche projects onto the female is the stuff of books. You'd need a lot more than an interview to go into it! Diane Lane
Art You Women Burden Big Living Interview Everything Books Projects Dream More Onto Stuff Female Go Male Lot Up Historically Than Represent Psyche Literature Lovely Need
I stay out of politics because if I begin thinking too much about politics, I'll probably... drop writing children's books and become a political cartoonist again. Dr. Seuss
Politics Writing Political Too Much Drop Become Thinking Too Books Out Stay Cartoonist About Because Begin Children Again Much
Obama is a great man who's just beginning to understand the realities. And I'm not just saying that because he reads my books. I would have voted for him anyway. E. L. Doctorow
Saying Great Man Beginning Books Obama Would Great Man He Voted Him Because Understand Reads Just Anyway Realities
After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' children all over the world let me know that they liked books that take them to unusual places where they meet unusual people. E. L. Konigsburg
Me People World Meet Books Take Over Know Liked Unusual Won Where Children After Places Them Files Medal
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