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By the time I was a teenager, I had developed skills as a writer, and my father encouraged me to think about a career in journalism. I began keeping a diary, which I maintain to this day. I used to fill whole notebooks with my writings.

- Nicole Kidman

I`ve been writing in notebooks for 40 years or so.

- Frank McCourt

I spend a lot of time preparing. I think a lot about what I want to do. I have prep books, little notebooks in which I write everything down before a sitting. Otherwise I would forget my ideas.

- Helmut Newton

Actually, for some time now I have given some thought to opening a film school. But if I did start one up you would only be allowed to fill out an application form after you have walked alone on foot, let`s say from Madrid to Kiev, a distance of about five thousand kilometres. While walking, write. Write about your experiences and give me your notebooks. I would be able to tell who had really walked the distance and who had not. While you are walking you would learn much more about filmmaking and what it truly involves than you ever would sitting in a classroom. During your voyage you will learn more about what your future holds than in five years at film school. Your experiences would be the very opposite of academic knowledge, for academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion.

- Werner Herzog

I wanted to be that guy when I was younger. I had pictures of him everywhere -- on my walls, in my notebooks. Everything he did, I wanted to do. He was my favorite skater, by far.

- Chris Cole

All these names are bigger-than-life names, ... When you see their actual letters and their notebooks, it puts a real stamp of humanity on these people.

- Anthony Farrisi

There`s more to Intel than notebooks. China and India are seeing stronger-than-normal demand for desktops,

- Atiyyah Henderson

Notebook (computer) sales were less than 300,000 in 2003. In 2006, we expect to sell 1.5 million notebooks in Russia.

- Barbara Fleming