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I've worked with the Los Angeles Zoo for 45 years, and we have this magnificent photographer, Tad Motoyama. He takes these wonderful, wonderful animal pictures. All through the years he's given me copies of these pictures. Well, I have all these gorgeous ones, so I said, 'Tad, I want to do a book with your picture on one side.'

~Betty White

Topics: Angeles Animal Book Copies Given Gorgeous He Los Los Angeles Magnificent Me Photographer Picture Pictures Said Side Takes Through Want Well Wonderful Worked Years Your Zoo

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Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.

~Beverley Nichols

Topics: Book Chapter Chapters First Marriage Poetry Prose Remaining Which Written

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One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even though I did not want to, I was reading. I have been a reader ever since.

~Beverly Cleary

Topics: Been Book Did Discovered Even Ever Grade Look Picked Pictures Rainy Reader Reading Since Sunday Third Though Up Want

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My mother always kept library books in the house, and one rainy Sunday afternoon - this was before television, and we didn't even have a radio - I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered I was reading and enjoying what I read.

~Beverly Cleary

Topics: Afternoon Always Before Book Books Discovered Enjoying Even House Kept Library Look Mother Picked Pictures Radio Rainy Read Reading Sunday Sunday Afternoon Television Up

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I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.

~Beverly Cleary

Topics: Backward Beginning Book Forward Imagination Just Most Necessarily Part Start Story Vivid Work

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'Dear Mr. Henshaw' came about because two different boys from different parts of the country asked me to write a book about a boy whose parents were divorced, and so I wrote 'Dear Mr. Henshaw,' and it won the Newbery, and I was - it's been very popular.

~Beverly Cleary

Topics: About Asked Because Been Book Boy Came Country Dear Different Different Parts Divorced Me Parents Parts Popular Two Very Were Whose Won Write Wrote Mr

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I wrote books to entertain. I'm not trying to teach anything! If I suspected the author was trying to show me how to be a better behaved girl, I shut the book.

~Beverly Cleary

Topics: Anything Author Behaved Better Book Books Entertain Girl How Me Show Shut Suspected Teach Trying Wrote

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I've met men who've stood in long lines on my book tours, and they've said things like, 'I've read your books and they've changed the direction in my life, and I want to thank you.' I think they're standing in line for their wife or their mother or their sweetheart or somebody, but no.

~Beverly Lewis

Topics: Book Books Changed Direction Life Like Line Lines Long Men Met Mother My Life Read Said Somebody Standing Stood Sweetheart Thank Thank You Things Think Tours Want Wife You Your I Think

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Compared to Uber, we have a much local business model. We allow the customers to pay in cash as well as use our prepaid wallet. We allow them to book through call centres and pre-book for future travels.

~Bhavish Aggarwal

Topics: Allow Book Business Business Model Call Cash Compared Customers Future Local Model Much Our Pay Them Through Travels Use Wallet Well Uber

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In 1988, my mother led a nationwide election campaign, wrote a bestselling book, had her first child, and became the youngest and first female prime minister of the Muslim world. All in one year! For her detractors, this wasn't good enough. She was unacceptable because she was a woman.

~Bilawal Bhutto Zardari

Topics: Became Because Book Campaign Child Election Enough Female First First Child Good Had Her Led Minister Mother Muslim Muslim World Nationwide Prime Prime Minister She Unacceptable Woman World Wrote Year Youngest

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