"No player in the NBA was born wanting to play basketball. The desire to play ball or to read must be planted. The last 25 years of research show that reading aloud to a child is the oldest, cheapest and must successful method of instilling that desire. Shooting baskets with a child creates a basketball player; reading to a child creates a reader."

-- Jim Trelease

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“I don't mind the debates, they're good for America, but we shouldn't be out there attacking each other all the time.”
“Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition, and that of rights. . . With an equality of civil rights, all men are equal before the law; all classes of the community being liable equally to taxation, military service, jury duties, and to the other impositions attendant on civilization, and no one being exempted from its control, except on general rules, which are dependent on the good of all, instead of the exemption's belonging to the immunities of individuals, estates, or families. An equality of civil rights may be briefly defined to be an absence of privileges.”
“He used to say to his melancholia patients: "You can be cured in fourteen days if you follow this prescription.Try to think every day how you can please someone.”
“There will be no more British guys. Unless they are members of the royal family, of course.”
“When I was eight years old, I played a story game with my younger brother and sister to help them fall asleep. The 'word-story game' was where they would choose a word and I would create a story. Acting and directing are similar to this game, where I am given the words then I fill in the life of the characters.”

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“Besides, do you think you would have come if Iâ€™d just popped into your tattoo shop one night around closing and said, â€˜Hello, Iâ€™m the Prince of Darkness. Think you could help me out with a little war next Tuesday, say, sixish?”
“You entrust your money to banks, God entrusts His money to you. How would you feel if the bank took your money and used it to play the lottery or gamble with it? So, how does God feel?”
“Hollywood loves to typecast, and I guess they saw me as a violent guy.”

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