"For obvious reasons, I never told you about my notebook, with a cover as green as mansions long ago, which I use as a commonplace book, a phrase which here means 'place where I have collected passages from some of the most important books I have read."

-- Daniel Handler

#Notebook Quotes #Mean Quotes #Long Quotes

“In this scene, I'm talking about how much I don't like cookies.... I'm sayin', 'Listen, guys. Have you read the book? We're not supposed to be eating.'”
“In a restaurant, tangoing couples circled past, and the look in Hale's eyes was especially mischievous when he told her, "Oh, I see. You brought me here so you can have your way with me on the dance floor.”
“We need women at all levels, including the top, to change the dynamic, reshape the conversation, to make sure women's voices are heard and heeded, not overlooked and ignored.”
“A lot of white-collar work requires less of the routine, rule-based, what we might call algorithmic set of capabilities, and more of the harder-to-outsource, harder-to-automate, non-routine, creative, juristic - as the scholars call it - abilities.”
“Given a full summer to practice basketball, and especially my jump shot, I know that I could play in the NBA and do well.”
“Some kids are good at math, some kids can run, and acting was an interest of mine. Because I knew you could do it for a living I decided, that's what I'm going to do.”
“The first thing you should know about people is that you donâ€™t know the first thing about them.”

Source : Charles Cumming (2010). “The Spanish Game: A Novel”, p.251, Macmillan
“Singing really is acting. In a lot of ways, it's much more personal. I love music, and being able to work on that is amazing.”

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