Gary Oldman Quotes
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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
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I really tend to write in retrospect.
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In fact, I don't read newspapers any longer.
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I never read about photography.
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I tend to be really competitive when it comes to Scattergories.
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My mother taught me to read.
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I tend to name albums after one of the songs.
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I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.
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My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write.
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When I'm in the U.K. – and I'm here more than people would think – I tend to keep a very low profile.
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I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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I read Carver. Julio Cortazar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like me.
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Men tend to be selfish.
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I love to read, and I love Martina Cole.
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I am always surprised people are surprised that people haven't read things.
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I would read all day if I could.
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When I was 17 or 18 I wanted to become a wine expert, and my parents wouldn't let me drink. So I was devastated. All I could do was read, and I read and I read. And I'd read something like, you know, 'Subtle hints of cassis.'
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You can't believe everything you read. I am only six foot three, by the way.
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I remember reading an interview with a writer who said that in nonfiction if you have one lie it sort of messes it up. But in fiction the real details give you so much more credibility, because people do so much research just to write fiction. In fiction you're trying to recreate something lifelike.
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It's important to take time for your spouse and nurture the relationship.
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At the English Revolution, when William of Orange came to the throne, the introduction of French wines into the country was prohibited, and this gave a great impetus to the manufacture of cyder and care in the production of cyder of the best description.
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To be vulnerable, to be raw, to virtually expose your guts, I like doing that.
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I tend to read non-fiction.
