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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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There was no demonstration of love I could read as a little boy.
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We are meaning-making creatures who read other people’s subtle clues just as they read ours.
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I like to read, and I like dance. I don't dance, but I like to see other people dance.
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I always believe leaders are readers, so you've got to read 30 minutes a day of something that's going to inspire you.
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I read Mitch Daniels's book, 'Keeping the Republic,' several times.
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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
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My thing has always been, sit down with me for an hour and base your judgments off that. That's all I ask. Don't go by what you read in the paper or hear in the streets.
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In my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk when you would like to read.
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.
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We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it.
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I don't necessarily read everything. I read what I need to read to inspire the book I'm trying to finish.
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A map says to you. Read me carefully, follow me closely, doubt me not... I am the earth in the palm of your hand.
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You know how children are, sometimes they love you by cuddling you, other times by trying to remake you from the start, reinvent you, as if they thought you were badly brought up and they had to teach you how to get on in the world, what music to listen to, what books to read, what films to see, the words you should use and those you shouldn’t because they’re old now, no one says that anymore.
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The more I read, the more I learn, the more I discover that I know nothing.
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Attention spans are changing. It's very noticeable. I am very aware that the kind of books I read in my childhood kids now won't be able to read. I was reading Kipling and PG Wodehouse and Shakespeare at the age of 11. The kind of description and detail I read I would not put in my books. I don't know how much you can fight that because you want children to read. So I pack in excitement and plot and illustrations and have a cliffhanger every chapter. Charles Dickens was doing cliffhangers way back when. But even with all the excitement you have to make children care about the characters.
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What a joy it is to read a book that shocks one into remembering just how high one's literary standards should be.... a tour de force by one of England's best novelists.... Atonement is a spectacular book; as good a novel - and more satisfying... - than anything McEwan has written....sublimely written narrative.... The Dunkirk passage is a stupendous piece of writing, a set piece that could easily stand on its own.
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Let us read thoughtfully; this is a great secret in the right use of books.
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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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I used to read a lot of Steinbeck, and I admired Roger Miller and Bob Dylan.
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Don Quixote — I read that every year, as some do the Bible.
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You are what you read.
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It would be a wonderful experience to stand there in those enchanted surroundings and hear Shakespeare and Milton and Bunyan read from their noble works. And it might be that they would like to hear me read some of my things. No, it could never be; they would not care for me. They would not know me, they would not understand me, and they would say they had an engagement. But if I could only be there, and walk about and look, and listen, I should be satisfied and not make a noise. My life is fading to its close, and someday I shall know.
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I came across the script 42, and I read it, and I said, "I really want to do this." And when I had my agent call, they said, ah, you know, it's not what they're looking for. So, OK. And then I let it go for a while, and then it just kept gnawing at me, so I kept pushing.
