eL Seed Quotes
Sometimes the reading is related to something I do, sometimes it's not. I feel like every time I read something, there's a quote or something that comes into the work later. There's nothing that happens by coincidence. It's fate, I would say.
Quotes to Explore
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When I found out about the audition, I knew that I was going in for 'From Dusk Till Dawn,' but I actually didn't know that I was going to be reading with Robert Rodriguez.
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I tend to think of stories and books as being for everyone, just with an 'entry reading age' rather than an age range.
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My dad was a football player - a soccer player - for Manchester United, and I loved playing football, but I also happened to be the guy in class who was pretty good at sight reading. My teacher gave me scripts, and I was very comfortable.
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People have told me that they cannot put down 'If I Stay' after reading it, and readers have become very invested in the love story between Adam and Mia.
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I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portraits.
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I wasn't that bothered with school; I was too mad into horses. But I liked reading and was good enough at English and always liked music.
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Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else's shoes for a while.
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When you read a novel, your own imagery is the most important. It's what makes reading such a wonderful thing.
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All sense of reality had gone out of her life; she had abandoned herself to fate, and awaited the consequences with indifference.
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A very remarkable people the Zulus: they defeat our generals, they convert our bishops, they have settled the fate of a great European dynasty.
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The most beautiful fate of a physical theory is to point the way to the establishment of a more inclusive theory, in which it lives on as a limiting case.
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If our minds were originally formed by nature in a sound and useful manner, then they pass on all the forces of fate, which imposes on us from outside in a relatively unobjectionable and more acceptable way.
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Reading is as much a part of life as any part, and it's life itself. And it allows us to live other lives that we might not have lived if we hadn't picked up those books.
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Now that I'm taking some time off from school, I've been reading a lot to make sure I don't forget everything. It's mostly classics and nonfiction accounts from actors, directors and writers from the '40s and '50s.
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Sometimes I'll be reading something online and just get so frustrated because of what people are saying.
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It's kind of sad, the way we've turned the entertainment of reading into a kind of psychic broccoli - something to feel guilty about if you don't force it on your face-making children while dutifully consuming a few token florets yourself.
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I learnt to love reading. And then I started scribbling stories, and I liked that even more.
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You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about by yourself.
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You can't be a change-maker by reading a book.
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If a scientist is reading a paper online and clicks through to purchase material, there's value there. It might be a business model; it might be enough to defray the cost of open access. I just want to create the infrastructure that makes movement and sharing easier.
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The Sistine Chapel is an extraordinary work of education - it lays out all the early books of the Bible.
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I was very clear that I wanted to keep 'Thor' out of the rest of the Marvel universe for no less than the first six issues. And the success of the book, I think, speaks well to that decision.
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Sometimes the reading is related to something I do, sometimes it's not. I feel like every time I read something, there's a quote or something that comes into the work later. There's nothing that happens by coincidence. It's fate, I would say.
