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Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#book #child #continuing #deep #form

Your Majesty, I took the liberty because I was so desirous of visiting alone with you for a few minutes before the rest of the other peasants arrived. ↗

— Walter Annenberg

#arrived #because #before #desirous #few

If I look at it, it's about being able to get lost in New York, to explore the city, to have more personal stories about New York, although some could also take place in Paris. ↗

— Keren Ann

#about #also #although #being #city

I'm one of the great unemployed looking for the next job. I'm waiting for the right offer. Like anyone, I want something that turns me on inside. ↗

— Francesca Annis

#great #i #inside #job #like

Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women. ↗

— Francesca Annis

#america #europe #everyone #god #grown-up

Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it. ↗

— Jean Anouilh

#books #history #history books #life #life is a

After you do a joke a few times, you have material that you know works. Although sometimes I have a joke that has worked a bunch of times and then one night it'll flop. And that's when I really take a hard look at myself and say: 'Well, that crowd is obviously wrong. That crowd has absolutely no idea what it's talking about.' ↗

— Aziz Ansari

#absolutely #after #although #bunch #crowd

I wanted to make good records. But my problem is I've got a low boredom threshold, so I wanted it to look and sound different with each album, which is really tantamount to suicide, cause people lose it, they lose it - they say: 'I like that, and that's not this.' ↗

— Adam Ant

#boredom #cause #different #each #good

It may be a coincidence, but from the minute I took anti-depressants, I didn't pick up a guitar or a pen for seven years. ↗

— Adam Ant

#guitar #i #may #minute #pen

The NBA's a Fortune 500 company. That's how you look at it. And all the other Fortune 500 companies out there in the world, you don't see their CEOs and COOs going to work with white tees and baggy clothes and stuff like that. So I have to take that same approach. ↗

— Carmelo Anthony

#baggy #ceos #clothes #companies #company