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“My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest.”
Source : Interview with Genevieve Koski, www.avclub.com. January 20, 2009. 
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“A news junkie, I read, daily, the 'Times/Sunday Times,' the 'Guardian/Observer,' 'Mail,' and the 'Argus' - both to keep up with crime in Brighton, where I set my novels, and because I think it is vital to support local papers - they provide a unique accountability for councils, emergency services and so much else, and are dangerously undervalued.”
Source : "Peter James: My Media". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. July 5, 2010.
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“Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean.”
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“I think one of the most humiliating moments of my life was putting on spandex, personally. It's always nice when four women pull you into spandex when you're in jockey shorts. Yeah.”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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“Sooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It's an old story played before by canals, railroads and automobiles.”
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“The word "necessary" is miserably applied. It disordereth families, and overturneth government, by being so abused. Remember that children and fools want everything because they want judgment to distinguish; and therefore there is no stronger evidence of a crazy understanding than the making too large a catalogue of things necessary.”
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“I rationalize out, well, how much help could you really be, you know? And maybe if people saw this, they'd realize the brutality of war and figure out there's got to be some better way than killing human beings who are just trying to farm a field.”
Source : "Remembering Oscar-Winning Cinematographer Haskell Wexler". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 29, 2015.
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“It is sinful for students to badmouth their teachers and sinful for teachers to mislead their students.”
