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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The difference between people who can read and write and those who can't is just absolutely astronomical.
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I don't want to read about the fabricated version of someone's life. I want to know what haunts you, what are you ashamed of, what embarrasses you, what do you wish was different?
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People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book.
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Every time I come home, and every time before I leave, I invite all my friends and I get hummus from this little shack in Tel Aviv called Baadunas.
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I just want to redeem myself and show the world that... it wasn't a fluke that I won at nationals. I can compete on the international stage as well.
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I tend to read non-fiction.
