Anna Leonowens Quotes
The fact is remarkable, that though education in its higher degrees is popularly neglected in Siam, there is scarcely a man or woman in the empire who cannot read and write.
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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
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I never read about photography.
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I write romance because I love to read romance.
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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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I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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But you know the thing that I thing oftentimes gets ignored and neglected is there was 10 or 12 years of life before I met Amy and before she met me, where you know, whatever happened was probably going to happen some day.
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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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Don't classify me, read me.
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I often don't read reviews.
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I don't read a lot of books.
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People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
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I read Spider-Man, and that's how I knew about Wilson Fisk.
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If I could read it, I could play it.
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We have for a long time neglected our children. They are our richest treasure. We must give them time, attention and the love of our pure, unselfish hearts.
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I learned to interpret the ancient pictograph codices and read Nahuatl, the Aztec language.
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I like a new clean book, freshly bound, particularly when I am the first to read it. I like dirty books - where other people have been before me, slipping fried eggs between the pages as markers - rather less.
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I had the impression in art school that cartooning was thought of as a lesser art than painting because cartoons are reproduced, so the "work" is not the single thing like a painting, but instead is the reproduced image.
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I did say, at Chicago, in my speech there, that I do wish to see the spread of slavery arrested and to see it placed where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction.
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The fact is remarkable, that though education in its higher degrees is popularly neglected in Siam, there is scarcely a man or woman in the empire who cannot read and write.
