The scenes that made it a PG-13 -- to take them out would have not been, to our minds, honoring our original intention to be faithful to those books, ... I think they would have been revolted if we had taken out those scenes.
The scenes that made it a PG-13 -- to take them out would have not been, to our minds, honoring our original intention to be faithful to those books, ... I think they would have been revolted if we had taken out those scenes.
I've always wanted to write a book relating my experiences growing up as a deaf child in Chicago. Contrary to what people might think, it wasn't all about hearing aids and speech classes or frustrations.
Our civilization has decided that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained men. When it wants a library catalogued, or the solar system discovered, or any trifle of that kind, it uses up its specialists. But when it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round. The same thing was done, if I remember right, by the Founder of Christianity.
Generally, the changes have been well received. For years and years, fans have been telling the NHL they should do something about obstruction and holding and call it by the book. It looks like they're going to stick to it this time. ... So the game itself has really opened up.
I'm not sure. I get confused. I have a very closed bunch of friends and family that I hear from. My book is still in the middle. Everybody will know who I am when I'm 40 years old. The contract is something I'm very proud of.
I'm writing books, I'm doing TV shows worldwide, and I'm doing many strange things-almost bizarre.
The concept for the book came from my realizing that there's been an explosion of financial information and we are in information overload.
The novels take longer to write than the picture book texts, and they do take a different sort of concentration. However, a very short, simple story that works well is just as exciting to me as any longer and more complex book.
I decided he'd changed so much that a whole new book was required and that book actually I can say so was the first to say that the marriage was in trouble and the Prince didn't like at all and my book was being serialized in the Sunday Times over five weeks.
They've been right eight years out of eight. I don't know if I'd take a bet on things going over. But it might, and it would be another thing to talk about for the history books.
I wish I had learned more about it in high school, but they didn't put it in the history books, ... I have great respect for the Navajo Code Talkers and their heroic acts.
Master books, but do not let them master you.- Read to live, not live to read.
Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base.
When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books.
The true university of these days is a collection of books.
A small publishing house is sometimes the way to go. I wanted somebody who would publish my book and care about my book. I wanted somebody to know my book and always remember it, and I found one. They take an interest in what you do. If they are committed to accept your book, then they are committed to you.
Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.
Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.
If you have time to spend, it's good to have different stores to shop at. You can pick up a book or a last-minute gift.
My father is a well known artist, Ted Dyer, who has been painting for many years. Our work is very different, but growing up surrounded by paintings, paints, easels and art books does have an effect.
In the fairy tale the painting represents the here and now. The book is actually divided into five sections, through which the key character, the muse, leads us.
Hopefully, young people will read more books, and it will cause them to think a little longer, than just react to pretty pictures.
Still I find comfort in his Book, who saith,
Though jealousy be cruel as the grave,
And death be strong, yet love is strong as death.
This is one of Andrew Carnegie's original libraries. It opened in 1902. It has always been a library and by the 1980s, when the steel mills were shutting down, we were able to hang on by the skin of our teeth. From 1985 to the early 1990s, we were struggling to keep the doors open.
A dose of poison can do its work only once, but a bad book can go on poisoning people's minds for any length of time
Our Lord and raise up in them an Apostle from among them who shall recite to them Thy communications and teach them the Book and the wisdom, and purify them surely Thou art the Mighty, the Wise.
Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.
You know, I think I did originally have some sort of idea of maybe a Where Eagles Dare kind of mission against impossible odds, but it really sort of died before I had a chance to really go anywhere with it, and then just doing the book was out of the question.
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?
This book could scare them. The sex, the violence, the dream sequences and the iconoclasm - I think a lot of people are uncomfortable with that. I understand that. It was very uncomfortable to write some of it.
The reaction to the book has been so overwhelming it has totally blown me away. It's clear there's been a need out there.
I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book.
There's also all the tedious academic books that come out. There's something like a book or an article on Beowulf being produced every week at the moment.
If there was one abortion bill we thought the governor was going to sign, it was this. The parental-consent laws are already on the books. We were just trying to make them more meaningful. This is a pretty common sense, pretty moderate, common-ground type of bill we thought we could get into law.
Very few of my books are about who stole the Maltese Falcon.
I have some great stories and I will get around to writing a book.
Basically I was a rebel growing up. I got kicked out of six schools. But I don't think that it makes you less of an intellect. You know, if you ever crave knowledge, there's always a library.
They have a book of locations, and we would do a story about the Sahara Desert for instance, and in the California book you would find a comparable location, to match that location in California.
A community reading garden brings people together and improves the environment. Gardens can be an enriching, stress-free zone. When the garden is devoted to reading, it adds the benefit of encouraging a love of books and learning.
I brought books, but I haven't had much time to open them.
I have a whole new respect for the guys that are successful at it, because it's not an easy job to sit for a few days and come in and face those nasty setup men when you're cold. That's why most organizations, most managers tend to lean on veteran guys like myself. We've been around awhile and maybe have a book on some of those pitchers and can handle the situation.
What's funny about Jesus' Son is that I never even wrote that book, I just wrote it down. I would tell these stories and people would say, You should write these things down.
Bill Ponder has helped me a lot by bringing books and others are going to donate books, too. The cash donations will be used to finish a series and I would really like to get more youth and children's books.
Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves.
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
In the book, I write about children in first grade who were taught to read by reading want ads. They learned to write by writing job applications. Imagine what would happen if anyone tried to do that to children in a predominantly white suburban school.
As the night progressed, ... I noticed that every 50-something guest felt obligated to pull Leslie aside and offer advice. The doctors named the tests and procedures she should have done. The lawyers advised her about tax and estate planning. The artists recommended exhibits to see or specific masterpieces to view. The professors encouraged her to read specific books, while the financial professionals scribbled stock tips on napkins and told her how to restructure her portfolio.
Burkett is quoted in an upcoming book, Bush's War for Re-election, ... reputation is impeccable.
Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison.
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