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Um, yeah. I guess lying around reading books all day doesn't do much for physical endurance.


Amy Plum

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AMY PLUM I like him, okay?"

"No you don't. You 'well I'm un I don't know um I guess yeah maybe' hi...
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ANDY MILLER 'Plum's are probably the funniest, but all the books have their own degree of humor. But if ...
JANET EVANOVICH The book you read and read well, over and over again, lives in you, becomes your thought and thinkin...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Where do I find the time for not reading so many books?
KARL KRAUS I love reading all kinds of books. I usually have about ten books going at any one time - books abou...
MARY POPE OSBORNE Books are the way to stretch out people's souls, and I won't have children with small souls.
JODI LYNN ANDERSON Reading books exposes us to the consistency and uniqueness of being human. Book reading is an invest...
KILROY J. OLDSTER Jo Wood was sound, sound as a bell. Solid, cynical, amused and occasionally amusing, he did not appe...
STEPHEN FRY Tell me he’s not talking to Brandon,” Claire said.
“Um… Ok. He’s not talking to Brand...
RACHEL CAINE It's like the drag fairy coming and saying 'Whatwould you like to do?' Um, yeah karate.
GERARD WAY the partition was rolled up for ventilation, and she was lying in her hammock reading one of the boo...
DOUGLAS PRESTON If Amy Winehouse was a beehive, then I guess I'm a blonde bob.
SIA It's like the drag fairy coming and saying 'What
would you like to do?' Um, yeah karate.
GERARD WAY Yeah, I'm boring, I guess.
JAKE SCOTT People tell me all the time that I look forbidding or aloof. That doesn't bother me much - I am ...
RIC OCASEK I love you so fucking much, my naughty, sweet Plum.
CHRISTINA LAUREN The prefect evening...lying down on the couch beside the bookcase and reading himself sleepy...Jim l...
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD Yeah, there was the Flora Plum thing, where I trained for about a month and I had taken a semester o...
CLAIRE DANES Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.
ANNIE BARROWS Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.
MARY ANN SHAFFER If you spend all your time reading books that you only pretend to understand, year after year, there...
CATHLEEN SCHINE I do believe sometimes discipline is very important. I'm not just lying around like a lazy cow all t...
BJORK All I wanted to do was go back inside to the library and read a book.I used to spend all my time rea...
KATHRYN MAGENDIE I'm taking it one day at a time and I guess that's all I can do.
DAVID FOSTER I guess I never grew up. I was still reading kids' books in high school and college. I was alway...
MICHAEL PATRICK HEARN How pleasant it is to spend every hour with you! I declare after all there is no enjoyment like your...
YEAH YEAH Reading books doesn't make you smarter. Reading smart books makes you smarter. Reading dumb books ma...
OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY I particularly like the fact that there is no set list of books. Whatever books children choose coun...
JACQUELINE WILSON I read used books because fingerprint-smudged and dog-eared pages are heavier on the eye. Because ev...
ERRI DE LUCA I had been going around to everybody saying Katherine Heigl has to be 'Stephanie Plum', and ...
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ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.
MARKUS HERZ I am in general a very pessimistic person with an optimistic, day-to-day take on things. The bare fa...
ALAIN DE BOTTON It wasn't so much that Lola Plum believed she'd learned her lesson in love. Lola Plum was just reali...
SHANNON NOELLE LONG I just enjoy lying on the couch and reading a magazine.
DAVID SEDARIS I realized very young that I loved reading and wanted to do something related to books/reading for a...
ELLEN DATLOW A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER I don't feel I really had anything to prove, ... The part was offered to me outright, so I didn't au...
JOHNNY KNOXVILLE I usually read four or five books from my reading log but sometimes I read other books just for info...
MACKAY RASMUSSEN One of the maddening ironies of writing books is that it leaves so little time for reading others...
MARY ROACH I think that the online world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they're re...
BILL MURRAY Yeah, it was pretty physical. That was their game plan pretty much, get us out of the game.
BRENT BENSON And she lets me know (about being second best), too. Amy can do it all, pretty much. About the only ...
TOM ROUEN I found out a long time ago that if I indulged by stuffing my face with great food, lying about read...
RAQUEL WELCH I love books.
I enjoyed reading.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the wo...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the wo...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Learning is acquired by reading books; but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the wo...
LORD CHESTERFIELD I didn't really enjoy reading until I married my wife and we began reading the Bible out loud to...
ROGER MCGUINN I do think his books would reward reading by people who think they don't like fantasy.
MICHAEL CHABON I do like books on anatomy. I have to say I'm an amateur physician, I guess.
TOM WAITS I just—we were talking, and we fell asleep. I swear, we didn’t, um—’’
‘‘Yeah, you...
RACHEL CAINE After we grew up, we had families, we had full-time jobs. For many years, we were all too busy to do...
COLLEEN BROWN Some might say we lose ourselves in a good book. In truth, we find ourselves.
CASSANDRA KING I guess, well, I'd like to win the all-around.
ASHLEY JACOB Especially for snowboard cross, endurance is huge. All of us are strong athletes. Ski racers, in the...
SETH WESCOTT For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the...
EMMA DONOGHUE There are some great, subversive female writers out there. Gender should not affect anything. It doe...
CARLA H. KRUEGER Our constant desire to genre-label cripples new writers. Let them experiment, explore and surprise.
CARLA H. KRUEGER Bravery isn't brandishing a sword. It's standing your moral ground and letting others try their best...
CARLA H. KRUEGER People who don't read fiction are scared of what's inside their own heads.
CARLA H. KRUEGER I fell in love with reading when I was allowed to choose whatever books I wanted to check out of the...
ADRIANA TRIGIANI I came from a house full of books, so I took reading for granted. I was an outdoorsy little kid, too...
TANA FRENCH I grew up reading comic books. Super hero comic books, Archie comic books, horror comic books, you n...
ROBERTO AGUIRRE-SACASA Everything you read, becomes a part of your life.
AMAN JASSAL I guess there are never enough books.
JOHN STEINBECK Books worth reading once are worth reading twice; and what is most important of all, the masterpiece...
JOHN MORLEY I grew up reading books about heroic collies.
CATHLEEN SCHINE I remember being a kid and reading all the dog books I could come across, both fiction and nonfictio...
GAIL TORACINTA Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.
ANNE BRONTë The physical effort of reading drains some of the pleasure I might take from whatever I'm readin...
BRIAN GRAZER Plum Island is an aging laboratory and the department is looking at all the options for establishing...
LARRY ORLUSKIE I’m actually tutoring you now?” “Yeah, I guess it does.” Echo pulled
KATIE MCGARRY Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a littl...
WARREN ZEVON I'm usually reading too many books - in fact, I'm usually reading enough books that if the s...
NICK HARKAWAY Cosa farei senza libri? Ne ho la casa piena, eppure non mi bastano mai. Vorrei avere una giornata di...
DACIA MARAINI If you have read 6,000 books in your lifetime, or even 600, it's probably because at some level you ...
JOE QUEENAN I'm pretty sure my addiction to reading has just reached a whole new level.
COLLEEN HOOVER People think I rush around all day long like a raving lunatic. I'm much more relaxed than that.
BRUCE FORSYTH I have a sweet tooth for reading, so books migrate to my zip code en mass.
DAWN OLIVIERI Yeah, I guess I'm not a particularly religious person, but I do really believe strongly that we ...
CARLA GUGINO My daughter is seven, and some of the other second-grade parents complain that their children don't ...
ANNE FADIMAN If you read a book which does not make you wonder, ponder!
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I love reading books that can break my heart.
TAYLOR JENKINS REID There are books that change our perspectives and books that change our personalities.
CARLA H. KRUEGER All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day...
EVELYN WAUGH Yeah, I guess you could say that. We broke a lot of stuff.
ALEX PHILLIPS Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.
MARK HADDON Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what...
ALBERTO MANGUEL I grew up on all sorts of horror - Hammer Horror and Vincent Price's 'Theatre Of Blood.'...
DARREN SHAN Opportunities? They are all around us...There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the obser...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Opportunities? They are all around us. There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observ...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Rory: Amy. I'm gonna need a little help here.
Amy: Just stop it!
Rory: Just think it throu...
STEVEN MOFFAT Amy is a tremendous all-around player with excellent athletic ability. Her style of play, her energy...
DON HARDIN “Sometimes I try reading books upside-down because I think, thats what it would be like if I could...
LEIF ERICSSON LEO VENESS Read what you find interesting, and then follow your interests. You'll find that in doing so you alw...
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AMY PURDY After I lost my legs, all I wanted to do was snowboard again. I remember spending an entire year on ...
AMY PURDY Tina Fey and I have 15 things in development: 'Laverne and Shirley', 'Starsky and Hutch ...
AMY POEHLER Don't treat your heart like an action figure wrapped in plastic and never used. And don't tr...
AMY POEHLER When I died my hair red the first time, I felt as if it was what nature intended. I have been accuse...
AMY ADAMS I've always hated the way Hollywood has portrayed accountants. They're always little nerd ba...
AMY HECKERLING I've found that music allows years to fold like an accordion over each other, so I guess you don...
AMY GRANT When I go on holiday, I wear wedges. They accentuate your leg, honey, and you have to look good on t...
AMY CHILDS Our uniqueness makes us special, makes perception valuable - but it can also make us lonely. This lo...
AMY TAN We can stop the cycle of animal homelessness and save lives by opening our hearts and homes to a lov...
AMY JACKSON Happiness is not always through success. Equally, the constant pursuit of success is sure unhappines...
AMY CHUA I just don't do the treadmill; I hate that. I do Pilates and yoga. I've recently joined aeri...
AMY JACKSON Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a...
AMY TAN I worked at an ice cream parlor called Chadwicks. We wore old-timey outfits and had to bang a drum, ...
AMY POEHLER I always liked my teachers, and I was in a lot of after-school projects. I was a Girl Scout until my...
AMY SEDARIS As you navigate through the rest of your life, be open to collaboration. Other people and other peop...
AMY POEHLER When you read about the lives of other people, people of different circumstances or similar circumst...
AMY TAN People talk about this 'bucket list': 'I need to go to this country, I need to skydive.&...
AMY TAN My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was ...
AMY TAN It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.
AMY TAN I have survivor skills. Some of that is superficial - what I present to people outwardly - but what ...
AMY TAN I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of ...
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