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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After the Dance was my first attempt at nonfiction. I'd never really participated in carnival, and I really wanted to go. It sounded like a wonderfully fun thing to do. And I wanted to write something happy about Haiti, something celebratory. And going to carnival gave me a chance to do that, because it is one of the instances in Haiti when people shed their class separation and come together.
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I learned a lot from playing those late-night, 1-to-4 A.M. gigs with my band, and playing when no one was listening.
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We must ever keep in mind that collectivized socialism is part of the communist strategy. Communism is fundamentally socialism. We will never win our fight against communism by making concessions to socialism.
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I saw A Hard Day's Night 12 or 13 times.
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I tend to read non-fiction.
