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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But if I didn't read, I'd think, and thinking, when you come down to it, is the most painful thing of all, and the most monopolizing.
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She knew herself, how she had slowly, over years, become a cat, a wolf, a snake, anything but a girl. How she had wrung out her girlhood like death.
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I think everybody has a hard time connecting, but as you get older and you want more and you expect more and you know more, it's just different. If you start wanting too much from it without it naturally unfolding, then that makes it bad. If you start not wanting anything, then you are not serious. I mean it's just this conundrum of issues.
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The moral and intellectual character of the Africans is widely different in different nations.
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Taking away from someone else will never make you any better.
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I tend to read non-fiction.
