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When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be able to spend a day reading a book, the realization dawns that perhaps the situation has become a little more stressful than you would like. ↗

— Julian Assange

#basis #become #being #book #comes

The successful man is the one who had the chance and took it. ↗

— Roger Babson

#had #man #successful #successful man #took

There was a combination of not wanting to look a gift horse in the mouth, but also really not wanting to be stuck in Lord of the Rings for the rest of my life, and being desperate to kind of make sure that I could do something else with my life. ↗

— Sean Astin

#being #combination #could #desperate #else

I'm a joke comic. I tell jokes. I like writing a joke, and I like when a joke works, and I like other comics who tell jokes. ↗

— Dave Attell

#comics #i #joke #jokes #like

A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#read #reads #real #us

People look to you to replace a part in their lives that they can't get back. You can't get the past back, you can't do it. We've all tried. ↗

— Anna Chlumsky

#get #lives #look #part #past

I wanted to make Jerusalem as feature film. But we couldn't finance it only through theatrical release, we couldn't get all the money we needed. We had to get some money from television. So we said, ok, let's do it both ways. So we did it in four parts. ↗

— Bille August

#did #feature #feature film #film #finance

It was actually Peter's idea that I should make the film. He called me in the very beginning, and I hadn't even read the book. So I read it and I liked it very much and I knew I'd certainly like to do it. ↗

— Bille August

#beginning #book #called #certainly #even

You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering the book, it's not an audience, it's one to one. ↗

— Paul Auster

#always #audience #book #books #encountering

We agree with Simpson and Bowles and others who have looked at this. What's necessary is to stabilize the debt and then work from there. You can't balance the budget in the short term because to do that would be to ratchet down the economy. ↗

— David Axelrod

#balance #because #budget #debt #down