#liter

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence. ↗

— George Eliot

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I was already devouring literature and I was the ripe old age of 15 when I decided to be an actor. I just thought plays were the most fantastic way of expressing life. I thought I'd discovered Shakespeare - 'hey, there's a new guy in town, don't know if anyone's read him.' I was just excited about the whole thing, from day one. ↗

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

#actor #age #already #anyone #day

Remember, I have a Ph.D. in English literature. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#english literature #i #literature #remember

There were days when I was literally running for hours in the forest and then I'd jump on a plane and then I'd be on the 'Nurse Jackie' set. I was going from Vancouver to New York every three days. For me, it was really invigorating. ↗

— Peter Facinelli

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New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that. ↗

— Dean Kamen

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For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness. ↗

— Thomas Bulfinch

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You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test. ↗

— George W. Bush

#child #her #literacy #pass #read

Most times when people pitch you as being perfect for a part... they don't look at you as an actor who can transform. A lot of people are so literal. ↗

— Catherine Keener

#being #literal #look #lot #most

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in the deepest and highest sense of that term. ↗

— Robert Caro

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