"Vernon Reis opened the world to me through books. He taught me that while I was physically firmly planted in blue-collar Auburn, Washington in the 50s and early 60s, intellectually I could go anywhere, explore anything, and sample exciting new ideas simply by opening a book."

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Source : Christine Gregoire's Inaugural Speech in Olympia, Washington, awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu. January 12, 2005.

Christine Gregoire

#Book Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Blue Quotes

“I don't know how to play myself. I'm not interested enough in myself. That's just not how I was educated. That's not how I learned to become an actor. Acting is creating a character.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I learned to stop looking on the Internet pretty early on.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Learn from cinema. Be economic with descriptions. Sort out the telling detail from the lifeless one. Write dialogue that people would actually speak.”

Source : "Ten rules for writing fiction (part two)" by Hilary Mantel, Michael Moorcock, Michael Morpurgo, Andrew Motion, Joyce Carol Oates, Annie Proulx, Philip Pullman, Ian Rankin, Will Self, Helen Simpson, Zadie Smith, Colm Tóibín, Rose Tremain, Sarah Waters, Jeanette Winterson, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.
“I have nothing to do with this pseudo-religious approach that Gandhi is advocating.”
“Please don't miss me too much. Please don't be too sad. Find someone else to love, because you have much love to give and it's a gift that shouldn't be wasted. You , Jesse, were the rose that made my life sweet.I will wait for you in heaven.”

Source : Lurlene McDaniel (2009). “A Rose for Melinda”, p.200, Laurel Leaf
“If you have someone that you think is The One, don't just sort of think in your ordinary mind, 'Okay, let's pick a date. Let's plan this and make a party and get married.' Take that person and travel around the world. Buy a plane ticket for the two of you to travel all around the world, and go to places that are hard to go to and hard to get out of. And if when you come back to JFK, when you land in JFK, and you're still in love with that person, get married at the airport.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Religion should not only comfort us when we are disturbed; it should also disturb us when we are comfortable.”

Source : Sidney Greenberg (1999). “Say Yes to Life: A Book of Thoughts for Better Living”, p.120, Jason Aronson, Incorporated
“In primary school when I was 6-7 years old, I always go to theater with my uncle, and I don't know why I like the atmosphere, dark only. The screen has some lighting, that kind of things, you can see the movie star and so that's why I like movies.”

Source : "Talk Asia" with Anjali Rao, www.cnn.com. May 29, 2007.

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