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Whenever I'm not shooting, I'm in the editing room with my footage. While the crew is taking 15 minutes to an hour to set up the next shot, I'm behind the Avid, putting the flick together. -- Kevin Smith
I stole comic books from my brother when I was a kid, but I was never like an avid fan. I can't claim to be like a comic book geek. -- Anna Kendrick
Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent. -- Sophia Loren
I'm an avid biography reader. -- Brent Spiner
Toy Empressario Wonder Afficianado Avid Shoewearer -- Suzanne Weyn
I am an avid runner, mainly on weekends. -- Patrick Wilson
Twilight''s got some avid - and rabid - fans. -- Rachelle Lefevre
Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself... -- Sophia Loren
Avid readers are enchanted by meaning, which is available chiefly in books. -- Mason Cooley
I'm a conservative. I was an avid supporter of Ronald Reagan; I thought he was fabulous. -- Shannen Doherty
I'm a big outdoorsman... I'm a big hunter. Avid fisherman. Hiker. Climber. Scuba diver. Skier. Love the outdoors. -- Bruce Rauner
Take time to play! Ask for what you want. Laugh. Live loudly. Be avid. Learn a new thing. Be Yourself! -- Mary Anne Radmacher
I was an avid radio fan when I was a boy, as well as a great lover of comic strips -- Guillermo Cabrera Infante
As an avid photographer, I also took advantage of the latest technology in photography - digital photography - to post photos on my website on a daily basis. -- Tipper Gore
I have always been an avid bike rider. Even before I became an avid bike rider, I was an avid bike stealer when I was a kid. I am very educated on bikes. -- Bo Jackson
But I was, and still am, an avid reader and so when I first started I chose to photograph many of the great writers in this country to try and earn a living. -- Fay Godwin
I've always been an avid reader. If I don't have a book in the car, I'll stop and pick one up just to have something to read. I don't even remember learning to read. -- Janis Ian
When they first cast me, I was a pretty avid fan and vampire movies and Celtic mythology, so I was excited to get a chance to walk in Doyle's shoes and have fun with it. -- Glenn Quinn
Now that I can edit the whole thing on AVID and edit the whole thing on tape, maybe I will do the next digitally, because maybe the quality will become less obvious between tape and film. -- Michael Apted
Everybody sort of questioned why we get married on New Year's Day, and of course, the avid sports fans wouldn't come, because they had to watch the Rose Bowl or whatever that is on that day. -- Yeardley Smith
Be avid. Create apart from perfection. Risk failure. Cover your words with sweat. Run a little Touch excruciatingly. Laugh until you cry. Dance with your eyes closed. Care. Understand you die a little in every moment. Be Enlivened -- Mary Anne Radmacher
I was an avid anime watcher until I was about 10, when I moved to manga. I think I am influenced by Osamu Tezuka's and Walt Disney's works which I watched during that time, such as Tetsuwan Atom and 101 Dalmatians. -- Akira Toriyama
a bookstore is one of the few places where all the cantankerous, conflicting, alluring voices of the world co-exist in peace and order and the avid reader is as free as a person can possibly be, because she is free to choose among them. -- Jane Smiley
Of course we women gossip on occasion. But our appetite for it is not as avid as a man s. It is in the boys gyms, the college fraternity houses, the club locker rooms, the paneled offices of business that gossip reaches its luxuriant flower. -- Phyllis McGinley
As her sons have seen her: the mother in patriarchy: controlling, erotic, castrating, heart-suffering, guilt-ridden, and guilt-provoking; a marble brow, a huge breast, an avid cave; between her legs snakes, swamp-grass, or teeth; on her lap a helpless infant or a martyred son. She exists for one purpose: to bear and nourish the son. -- Adrienne Rich
I am an avid follower of the news, and sometimes you just can't take any more war, any more disasters, and you want to remind yourself there's beauty in the world. I wanted to show a more poetic side to my work. It was all about... a feeling of sadness, but in a cinematic kind of way. I find beauty in melancholy. -- Alexander McQueen
I have always liked reading biographies. It is the ideal literary genre for someone too prim, like me, to acknowledge a gossipy interest in the living - don't you hate gossips, aren't they too awful? - but avid for any nuggets from the private lives of the dead because that is perfectly respectable, an altogether worthy and informative way of spending one's time. -- Jill Tweedie
I was an avid swimmer and was state champ at age 12. -- Apolo Ohno
Outside of my work as a comic book creator and co-publisher, I'm an avid gamer. -- Jim Lee
I'm certainly not a perfect mother, but I am an avid mother, let me put it that way. -- Annette Bening
We had an erector set, and I was an avid fan of Popular Mechanics and Popular Science magazines. -- James Van Allen
I'm an avid shoe fan. I got my first pair of Louboutins as a birthday gift from Jami Gertz. -- Toks Olagundoye
At home I have hunting magazines on my nightstand. I'm an avid hunter. I hunt every chance I get. -- Bennie Thompson
I was an avid radio fan when I was a boy, as well as a great lover of comic strips. -- Guillermo Cabrera Infante
I was a really avid bowler when I was a teenager. I had about a 210-220 average. I had blisters on my fingers. -- Dennis Quaid
I am an avid hunter and marksman, and I will not hesitate to shoot anyone who has myself or family in fear for our lives. -- Kid Rock
I want to do things - scuba diving, sky diving, seeing the world. I'm an avid supporter of living life to its fullest and not always waiting for tomorrow. -- Teri Polo
I'm an avid runner and play soccer every weekend, but I also have to constantly watch what I eat, and I'm always thinking about how to balance my meals. -- Marcus Samuelsson
I keep up with everything in terms of health, fitness, nutrition, skin care, hair, nails. Really, everything. I'm an avid reader of every women's health newsletter from every hospital in the country. -- Evelyn Lauder
I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me grounded. I came from a very middle class family - poor, in fact. -- Madhur Bhandarkar
Gary Speed was honourable, trustworthy and a joy to manage. He was honest, he was a role model and he was a great bloke. An avid learner, he recognised responsibility and he was always fully committed. -- Howard Wilkinson
I would not describe myself as an avid jazz fan and I am not a jazz musician myself. However, that is not to say that jazz does not play a vital and important role in my life. -- Nat Wolff
Two of my three siblings are older, so I suppose I learned from them and became a very avid reader at a young age, which I think enough cannot be said for what you can discover through literature. -- Julia Roberts
I'm an avid animal lover. When I was 16, I wanted to be a vet or a zookeeper. I grew up with animals. At one time we had between five and eight dogs in the house, with four cats. We're menagerie people. -- Misty May-Treanor
I was too young to be an avid enthusiast for the franchise, but like billions of people I remember as a child sitting around with the family on a Friday night with pizza and popcorn and a 'Die Hard' movie on. -- Jai Courtney
I'm thrilled to continue the tradition of the spectacular, cinematic, horrifying, exciting and emotional storytelling of 'The Walking Dead.' I'm a huge fan of the comics, and started with the show on the other side of the set, as an avid viewer. -- Scott M. Gimple
I'm such an avid magazine reader - music, art, beauty magazines - and I found that food and restaurants were pouring into everything I cared about. Whether it was the pop-up concept, or some mysterious mini-mall restaurant, I got swept up in the sexy romance of the food movement. -- Drew Barrymore
The Conversation' was the first film I edited on a flatbed machine - a KEM editing machine. I've been using Final Cut or the AVID for 12 years now, so I was interested in looking at this film and seeing if I could tell if it had been edited the old way. -- Walter Murch
Over the years, my work became both my vocation and avocation. Since I enjoyed it so much, I never felt a great need to go outside for relaxation. Nevertheless, I became an avid photographer and traveler. Possibly my love for travel stems from the early years when my family seldom went away on vacation. -- Gertrude B. Elion
Thank you for reminding Canada that I'm a disappointment to them. I like hockey, I love it, but I'm not an avid hockey - let's face it, true Canadian - fan. I've always been more into snowboarding and skateboarding and sort of the alternative sports, I'm not crazy about hockey - but love it! -- Dustin Milligan
I was one of those avid moviegoers as a kid, and we didn't have video, so we went to see everything five times. I went to see every foreign film playing in my town. As times went on, I watched a lot less films. I have a different film school now. My film school now is my life experience. -- Jodie Foster
I am an avid reader. -- June Squibb
I am young and avid for glory. -- Antoine Lavoisier
I am a very, very avid 'Anchorman' fan. -- Zoey Deutch
I'm an avid juicer and a healthy eater. -- Brett Dennen
Our loneliness makes us avid column readers these days. -- Edward Hoagland
I am an avid drinker with a serious bowling problem. -- Uncle Kracker
There is no hiding the fact I'm an avid Millwall fan. -- Nick Love
Sight is a promiscuous sense. The avid gaze always wants more. -- Susan Sontag
I like to sail. My son Caden and I are avid sailors. -- Doug Davidson
As any avid reader knew, a good read deserved a good seat. -- David S.E. Zapanta
Just because you're an avid reader doesn't mean you're an avid understander. -- Alec Sulkin
I am an avid reader of comics, though I came to them late. -- Nick Harkaway
I'm an avid cook. Brazilian, some Italian, a little French. And I often throw dinner parties. -- Morena Baccarin
I am an avid supporter of PETA and all animals as well as animal rights programs. -- Corey Feldman
I attended a Baptist church as a child and was an avid reader starting with the Bible. -- John Henrik Clarke
I have been an avid reader of 'Golf Digest' ever since I started playing this great game. -- Paula Creamer
Hitler was an avid reader, a passion that stayed with him through all the phases of his career. -- Volker Ullrich
I was a very avid reader when I was a child, and I also was a good listener. -- Joseph Bruchac
I am an avid reader! As for writing, I might - someday. But we'll have to wait and see. -- Zosia Mamet
I do believe in exercise and eating right. And I'm not an avid exerciser. I exercise twice a week. -- Jennifer Flavin
Charles Dickens was an avid seeker of names - he read directories and looked for odd names on gravestones. -- Jane Smiley
I'm an avid reader. Novels, non-fiction, comics, it doesn't matter. Best way in the world to feed your head. -- Reid Scott
More than 3,500 hardcover novels are published each year. Even the most avid reader buys fewer than one a week. -- M.J. Rose
I was an avid reader of futurists during the 1970s and '80s. They were so wrong - about everything. -- Hermann E. Ott
It's impressive when you're such a mysterious fictional character that even avid enthusiasts are debating your existence within the mythos. -- Ben Thompson
I'm a compulsive storyteller, an avid reader, and have always nurtured the secret goal of spending my life as a writer. -- Astro Teller
My mother was an avid readerShe loved books about romance. Books that took place in faraway places and times. Stories with costumes -- Adriana Trigiani
I was a really avid bowler when I was a teenager. I had about a 210-220 average. I had blisters on my fingers." -- Dennis Quaid
The most profound, life-altering gift you can offer the Indie writer you love is to TELL as MANY avid readers as you are able. -- R.S. Guthrie
The passions I have in my life are my family, music, books, I'm an avid plant collector, and I love to ride my bike. -- Bill Walton
It may be that the most avid readers of new fiction in America today are film producers, an indication of the trouble were in. -- E. L. Doctorow
I'm an eclectic and avid filmgoer. I try to see everything from romantic comedies to blockbusters to art house films, world cinema and documentaries. -- Pamela Yates
I've always been an avid reader. Everyone in my family read a lot. Considering we were from a little town, we were pretty literate. -- John Malkovich
My parents were avid readers. Both had ambitions to write that had been abandoned early in life in order to get on with life. -- Rodman Philbrick
...no matter how avid they themselves may be for praise and appreciation, people are often niggardly in giving it to others, however merited it is. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
I not only work online through my various projects, but I am an avid user of online technologies to connect and engage with friends as well. -- Rachel Sklar
If you are a middle manager avid to begin a quality initiative in a company ruled by an executive from the old school, look elsewhere for a job. -- Mary Walton
February was always the cruelest month for Hunter S. Thompson. An avid NFL fan, Hunter traditionally embraced the Super Bowl in January as the high-water mark of his year. -- Douglas Brinkley
The love of Jesus is at once avid and generous. All that He has, all that He is, He gives; all that we are, all that we have, He takes. -- John of Ruysbroeck
Your ego is an avid interpreter. It is so quick to interpret events as 'bad' or 'good,' 'wrong' or 'right.' It never fails to see 'the little picture. -- Robert Holden
I've always loved J.R.R. Tolkein and recently, Christine Feehan and J.K.Rowling. There are many as I'm an avid reader, but those three come to the fore. -- Franny Armstrong
First, the avid student must be aware that when the world was young it knew only seven things: water, life and death, salt, night, birds and the length of an hour. -- Catherynne M. Valente
Let us not forget that group of self-taught, outsider artists who never stepped foot in any classroom and cared less about even exhibiting, and yet ended up with an audience of avid admirers. -- Scott Kahn
I love scuba diving. I'm an avid diver. And, there's this beautiful world that's more incredible than any CGI film we could ever make, that we're destroying, for what? It's heartbreaking to me. -- Blake Lively
I'm an avid hockey fan and I've been playing for about 17 years, and somebody recently told me that the first organized hockey teams in Canada were all black. Telling those stories would be cool. -- Cuba Gooding, Jr.
Well, user feedback was excellent. Even when the software didn't work at all, there were few people who were avid users, and there were people who were just sending excellent feedback and excellent ideas. -- Shawn Fanning

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