Reading Quotes
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So, I subscribe to the following reading: Star Wars is an essentially Christian tale.
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People turn off the news, stop reading in-depth magazine articles - especially young people. Look at the increasing reluctance of young people to vote. I think a lot of that is directly - you can lay it at the feet of these negative campaigns and relentless attack ads.
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Trust not my reading, nor my observations, Which with experimental seal do warrant The tenor of my book.
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When I travel, I can leave everything at home apart from books. I curate my holiday reading rigorously and would be devastated if I found I'd left one at home.
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I have been reading the press more regularly than others over 50 years and it seems to me that there are things that have changed in the press that have changed its character.
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If your memory was OK you could descend upon on a bookshop – a big enough one so that the staff wouldn’t hassle a browser – and steal the contents of books by reading them. I drank down 1984 while loitering in the 'O' section of the giant Heffers store in Cambridge. When I was full I carried the slopping vessel of my attention carefully out of the shop.
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Focusing on the way I look makes me uncomfortable. I try to focus on the way I feel - I know what makes me feel better about myself. Reading my child a story makes me feel great, doing my hair nicely doesn't.
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Knowledge of the Bible never comes by intuition. It can only be obtained by diligent, regular, daily, attentive reading.
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Essayists, like poets, are born and not made, and for one worth remembering, the world is confronted with a hundred not worth reading. Your true essayist is, in a literary sense, the friend of everybody.
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It is essential that anyone reading this book know at the outset that the author is apolitical. I was convinced in 1927 that humanity's most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics.
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I just enjoyed telling stories. I enjoyed watching films and reading and becoming someone else. I spent a lot of time on my own when I was younger; I enjoyed my own company and still do, so it was a source of escapism.
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I am reading Henry James...and feel myself as one entombed in a block of smooth amber.
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I do remember reading the script of 'The Nightmare Fair' and looking forward to doing it.
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To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.
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If children are reading well by the 3rd or 4th grade then everything else works.
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What I am best at is reading a book and then writing a critical essay.
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Sometimes when I'm reading a script, I can't quite believe that this is going on television alongside cereal commercials.
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In antiquity and the Middle Ages reading was necessarily reading aloud. (p. 94)
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IF YOU ARE ACCUSTOMED to reading works of speculative fiction and enjoy puzzling things out on your own, skip this Note. Otherwise, know that the scene in which this book is set is not Earth, but a planet called Arbre that is similar to Earth in many ways.
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You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York.
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Back when I went to Louisiana State University a million years ago, we got the Baton Rouge paper. But if you wanted to read 'The New York Times' or 'The Wall Street Journal,' you had to go to the reading room of the student union, and you got the edition several days after it had been published, and you had to read it on a wooden stick.
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I grew up reading 'British Vogue' - I am so honoured and humbled to be taking up the mantle of editor.
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My family was absolutely supportive. I did have a fear of cold reads because of my dyslexia, but my family's support and reading classes really helped me overcome my fear!
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Getting out any weekly magazine requires many hours of reading, choosing, discarding, and thinking beyond the obvious.
