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I remember being in the public library and my jaw just aching as I looked around at all those books I wanted to read. There just wasn't time enough to read everything I wanted to read.

Time Library Enough Remember Just

I had plenty of pimples as a kid. One day I fell asleep in the library. When I woke up, a blind man was reading my face.

Rodney Dangerfield

Day Man Reading Face Library Blind

I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.

Great Library Fairy Tale Fairy Tried

Basically I was a rebel growing up. I got kicked out of six schools. But I don't think that it makes you less of an intellect. You know, if you ever crave knowledge, there's always a library.

Michelle Rodriguez

Knowledge Growing Up Library Think

I had a library of maybe 1,000 books in my room in Buenos Aires. I did have the sense that everything there was organised in the right way. You'll probably think I needed serious psychiatric treatment, but there were times when I would not buy a book because I knew it wouldn't fit one of the categories into which I had divided the library.

Alberto Manguel

Book Library Think You Serious Way

Yes, there's such a thing as luck in trial law but it only comes at 3 o'clock in the morning. You'll still find me in the library looking for luck at 3 o'clock in the morning.

Morning Me Luck Law Looking Library

I intend, before the endgame looms, to die sitting in a chair in my own garden with a glass of brandy in my hand and Thomas Tallis on the iPod. Oh, and since this is England, I had better add, 'If wet, in the library.' Who could say that this is bad?

Terry Pratchett

Library Better Die Chair Bad Garden

When I was young, my parents had a library in our living room. I was always free to browse and read.

Parents Free Library Young Living

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

Library Vanity Place More Human

Simply as a writer of books I'm thrilled and proud that Seattle should have raised, on a public vote, sufficient money to build a central library, and moreover to rebuild every other library in the city: 28 of them.

Money City Proud Library Vote Build

My mother introduced me to more academic-minded writers, Cornel West and Skip Gates. In her library, I came across, when I was very young, Harold Cruse's 'The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual,' which is like a bible of Negro intellectuals from Frederick Douglass to Amiri Baraka.

Mother Me Bible Library Young More

Eight was about the age I was when I realized that people actually produced books, they didn't just spring out of the library shelves.

Age Spring People Library Out Just

I have lectured at Town Hall N.Y., The Library of Congress, Harvard, Yale, Amherst, Wellesley, Columbia, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Louisiana State University, Colorado, Stanford, and scores of other places.

Library Congress Colorado Places

I understood right from the start that every set of library doors were the sort of magic portals that lead to other lands. My God, right within reach there were dinosaurs and planets and presidents and girl detectives!

Girl God Start Library Doors Magic

I became a librarian at the Sainte-Genevieve Library in Paris. I made this gesture to rid myself of a certain milieu, a certain attitude, to have a clean conscience, but also to make a living. I was twenty-five. I had been told that one must make a living, and I believed it.

Attitude Myself Library Paris Living

As a kid, I used to go to the library and take out all the art books.

Art Library Go Kid Out Take

As a kid, I lived almost entirely inside books, and eventually the books started returning the favor. A lot of my internal world feels like an anthology, or a library. It's eclectic and disorganized, but I can browse in it, and that hugely shapes both what and how I write.

World Library I Can Returning Kid

I was always looking ahead. I used to do all kinds of things for entertainment. When I was young, we had no radio, no TV. We were 30 miles from the public library, out in the sticks in Western Kansas, and so I'd do arithmetic exercises.

Looking Library Young Ahead Radio

Sometimes we'd just play acoustic guitar and try out the parts and make a library. We'd use a double cassette player and make little edits.

Library Guitar Play Sometimes Try

My favorite language for maintainability is Python. It has simple, clean syntax, object encapsulation, good library support, and optional named parameters.

Good Simple Support Library Language

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

Education College Library You Want

The library companies have made it so that music is so cheap to license. They do sound-alikes of every band, and it makes it harder for the actual bands to get any decent paychecks for licensing.

Music Library Band Cheap Get Decent

I fell in love with reading when I was allowed to choose whatever books I wanted to check out of the library.

Adriana Trigiani

Love Reading Library Choose Whatever

There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library.

Good Poetry Memory Library Know Who

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