You really get a feeling, when you're reading scripts, pretty quickly. Within 20 or 25 pages, you can get a sense of… — Molly Shannon Copy Share Image
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I guess I'm interested in the behind-the-surface feelings of the human condition, in my own way. I was always struck by the… — Signe Baumane Copy Share Image
I did not even go to kindergarten; I just started first grade when I was five and started reading right away. I… — Joan Ganz Cooney Copy Share Image
I carried on buying paintings, works of art, and Yves Saint Laurent, if I may say so, had a right of inspection.… — Pierre Berge Copy Share Image
The six and one-fourth hours' television watching (the American average per day) which non-reading children do is what is called alpha-level learning.… — Carol Bly Copy Share Image
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If you're reading a book that I've written in the first person, without named characters, you will periodically perhaps as a reader… — Douglas A. Martin Copy Share Image
Kids not only need to read a lot but they need lots of books they can read right at their fingertips.They also… — Richard Allington Copy Share Image
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A university is a reading and discussion club. If students knew how to use the library, they wouldn't need the rest of… — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
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I think that the most important thing for me is, how is the character that I would be reading for? Is it… — Julia Garner Copy Share Image
Do we really need school? I don't mean education, just forced schooling: six classes a day, five days a week, nine months… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
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“[E]very man hath liberty to write, but few ability. Heretofore learning was graced by judicious scholars, but now noble sciences are vilified… — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
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It was reading Hamlet that ruined the concept of authenticity for me, not because Hamlet lacked existentialist credentials himself - indeed, as… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
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I never look at fashion magazines. I find them incredibly boring. To me, reading a fashion magazine is the last thing I… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
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It's definitely a thing to be sitting there, getting a pedicure, and you look over and someone is reading an article about… — Anne Hathaway Copy Share Image
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![“I have this very moment finished reading a novel called The Vicar of Wakefield [by Oliver Goldsmith]… It appears to me, to be impossible any person could read this book through with a dry eye and yet, I don't much like it… There is but very little story, the plot is thin, the incidents very rare…” quote by Fanny Burney](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/ecd/fanny-burney-7403_book_i-have-this-very-moment-finished-reading_1786082.jpg)
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