"I've always had a soft spot for comic books. I learned to read from them. The words in them were so interesting."
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"In this day and age, where you have a lot of comic book movies made every day, and most of them are really good boys, it's important to have a couple bad boys out there, too."
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"I like the idea of being involved in pictures that can entertain the entire family and can stimulate youngsters into looking at picture books. There's nothing wrong with that."
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"If you get a chance, whenever you're traveling, do go to the local boutique comic book shop and don't buy your comics online 'cause those guys are going to go extinct, in a minute here, and we want to be able to have those experiences with our kids."
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"I have depended on books not only for pleasure and for the wisdom they bring to all who read, but also for that knowledge which comes to others through their eyes and their ears."
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"I do not remember a time since I have been capable of loving books that I have not loved Shakespeare."
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"The White House used to belong to the American people. At least that's what I learned from history books and from covering every president starting with John F. Kennedy."
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"Anybody who runs for public office today has got to know his life or her life will be an open book. I've decided that if you want to run for public office you have to decide at the age of 5 and live accordingly."
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"He that gains well and spends well needs no count book."
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"The book of books, the storehouse and magazine of life and comfort, the holy Scriptures."
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"People have to have the desire within themselves to find out who they are. Who am I and what am I doing here and where am I going? Those sort of basic questions. Even without picking up a book or anything. If they just ask themselves that sincerely, in the quiet of the night, the door will open."
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"I have suffered for this book; now it's your turn."
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"Books cannot be killed by fire."
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"When you're playing a character in a book, there's already a lot of pressure because all of the millions of people who have read the series have been able to envision and become very attached to the characters."
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"How could I, who loved life so intensely, have let myself be entangled for so long in that balderdash of books and paper blackened with ink!"
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"Boys are different from girls, but boys are also different from other boys, just as girls are different from other girls. Calling a book “for boys” or “for girls” is well-meaning, but to me, not terribly helpful."
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"We'll always need printed books that don't mutate the way digital books do; we'll always need places to display books, auditoriums for book talks, circles for story time; we'll always need brick-and-mortar libraries."
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"Where is there any book of the law so clear to each man as that written in his heart?"
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"And the light by which she had read the book filled with troubles, falsehoods, sorrow, and evil, flared up more brightly than ever before, lighted up for her all that had been in darkness, flickered, began to grow dim, and was quenched forever."
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"In spite the mountains of books written about art, no precise definition of art has been constructed. And the reason for this is that the conception of art has been based on the conception of beauty."
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