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On the back of comic books in the 1970s, there was something called the American Seed Company. They would send you a cardboard box full of seeds; kids would sell them door-to-door in the neighborhood and then pick from a catalog of prizes. I bought myself a watch that way.

~Anthony Scaramucci

Topics: American Back Books Bought Box Cardboard Catalog Comic Comic Books Company Full Kids Myself Neighborhood Pick Prizes Seed Seeds Sell Send Something Them Then Watch Way Would You 1970S

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Conducting! A subject, truly, concerning which much might be written, yet scarcely anything of real importance is to be found in books.

~Anton Seidl

Topics: Anything Books Concerning Conducting Found Importance Might Much Real Scarcely Subject Truly Which Written

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The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her arrival in France!

~Antonia Fraser

Topics: Actually Arrival Book Books Childhood Concentration Family France Her How Influences Marie Some Start Surprising

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People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police.

~Antonia Fraser

Topics: Books Deserts Even Get Hands Just People Police Tend

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Why do we have a brain in the first place? Not to write books, articles, or plays; not to do science or play music. Brains develop because they are an expedient way of managing life in a body.

~Antonio Damasio

Topics: Articles Because Body Books Brain Brains Develop Expedient First First Place Life Managing Music Place Play Play Music Plays Science Way Why Write

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It's funny - my wife is more jealous of my books than of other women because I'm always working and thinking about my books.

~Antonio Lobo Antunes

Topics: About Always Because Books Funny Jealous More Other Than Thinking Wife Women Working

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Many of the books I read, I had to read them in French, English, or Italian, because they hadn't been translated into Spanish.

~Antonio Munoz Molina

Topics: Because Been Books English French Had Italian Many Read Spanish Them Translated

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My books are about losers, about people who've lost their way and are engaged in a search.

~Antonio Tabucchi

Topics: About Books Engaged Losers Lost People Search Way

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In my library/study/barn, there is a Ping-Pong table on which I can pile working books and spread maps.

~Antony Beevor

Topics: Books Maps Pile Spread Table Which Working I Can

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There is no question that creative intelligence comes not through learning things you find in books or histories that have already been written, but by focusing on and giving value to experience as it happens.

~Antony Gormley

Topics: Been Books Creative Experience Find Focusing Giving Happens Histories Intelligence Learning No Question Question Things Through Value Written You

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