Reading Quotes
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What makes me put pen to paper? You know, that's the million-dollar question. I've been writing since I've been reading. It's not a question I think that's even meant to be answered, but it's something you always seek to discover the answer to. And the process of filmmaking is one of discovery, and self-discovery at that. Pleasure... it's not exactly what I would call fun, but it's absorbing.
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Turn the page, continue reading, and let the next story begin.
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The spiritual traditions of all the religions have certain similarities that are unmistakable. They share many of the same basic practices like sacred reading, spiritual guidance, moderation in eating, drinking and sexual expression, and above all, trying to be aware of the presence of God in other people and in everyday life.
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I've always believed that everything that is said from authority is either the authority of one's own heart, one's own brain, one's own reading, one's own trust, but not the authority of someone who claims it because they're speaking for God and they know the truth because it's written in a book. That, essentially, is where I come from. In a sense, tolerance is my religion. Reason is my religion.
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Reading was very important; the proper exercise and development of one's mind was a paramount duty.
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Reading allows you to go into a space that nothing else can take you to.
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I'm about to start reading it again, because what good is a story you only want to read once?
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I get so excited about reading a new script.
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I'll tell you what I think. I think you need to stay indoors reading more books!
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We might mean different things. How can you tell? Only by reading each of us carefully and seeing what each of us has to say—not by pretending that we are both saying the same thing. We’re often saying very different things.
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..holding a book but reading the empty spaces.
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Remarkably, [Sen. Dianne] Feinstein was reading her statement. So her mare's-nest of inapposite words and unclear thoughts cannot be excused as symptoms of Biden's Disease, that form of logorrhea that causes victims, such as Sen. Joe Biden, to become lost on the syntactical back roads of their extemporaneous rhetoric.
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Writing is an expression of the writer's own peculiar personality, could not help being so. Yet in reading great works one feels that the finished piece transcends the personal. All writers great and small must sometimes have felt that they have become part of what they wrote even more than it still remains a part of them.
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There's a limit that you will not be able to go past if you don't understand the importance of reading.
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People are reading news for free on the web, that's got to change.
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I stopped reading reviews about my own movies. I read stuff about other people's movies.
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But it is impossible, I find, to tidy books without ending by sitting on the floor in the middle of a great untidiness and reading.
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Spiritual reading is a regular, essential part of the life of prayer, and particularly is it the support of adoring prayer.
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I think the term "interbeing" has cropped up in a lot of places. It's in the atmosphere, because it's just so true, and the time for that truth to be revealed to mass society is here. It's like in those French bakeries where they don't need to add yeast to the dough, because the yeast is so ambient in the air that the dough gets quickened whether or not you add yeast to it. Many people, even without doing a whole lot of study and reading, are coming to the same kinds of conclusions and perceptions about the world as I am.
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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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In your reading, find books to improve your color sense, your sense of shape and size in the world.
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With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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A man of letters, merely by reading a phrase, can estimate exactly the literary merit of its author.
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Algebra looked like Chinese characters to me, and I could never get into reading Shakespeare. I just did not get it.
