"You need a theme in a picture book just as much or maybe even more than you need it in a novel."

-- Eve Bunting

#Book Quotes #Needs Quotes #Theme Quotes

“I've never been a flag waver, but I can lead by example.”

Source : "Interview with Mike Ness of Social Distortion". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“Our everyday self is a narrow construct...Our total self is far broader, ultimately infinite. Actors who seem to be playing themselves are actually playing roles they have become so skillful at that they seem pure and natural...Much bad Acting is the result of being too close to the Actor's everyday self, confining him in its rigid mold.”
“A foreign correspondent is someone who lives in foreign parts and corresponds, usually in the form of essays containing no new facts. Otherwise he's someone who flies around from hotel to hotel and thinks that the most interesting thing about any story is the fact that he has arrived to cover it.”
“There are 10-20 times more male comics than female comics; it's something to do with the social structure of society.”

Source : "Question time". Interview with Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. April 8, 2009.
“I did find some time to go to a record store and check out "Headstrong" actually in the racks. It was pretty cool; I never thought I'd see my own CD sitting there with everyone else's. I made my Mom take lots of pics!”
“There are a few people, but a diminishing number, who still believe that Marxism, as an economic system, off era a coherent alternative to capitalism, and socialism has, indeed, triumphed in one country.”
“James's expedition to Scotland is wholly imaginary, though there appears to have been space for it during Henry's progress to the North to pay his devotions at Beverley Minster.”

Source : Charlotte Mary Yonge (2015). “Delphi Complete Novels of Charlotte Mary Yonge (Illustrated)”, p.7498, Delphi Classics
“For a woman there is nothing more erotic than being understood.”

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