Filipinos are not a reading people, and despite the compulsory course on the life and works of Rizal today, from the elementary… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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I suppose that it was inevitable that my word-base broadened. I could now for the first time pick up a book and… — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
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A good book deserves an active reading. The activity of reading does not stop with the work of understanding what a book… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I was a kid and my parents started talking about politics, I'd run to my room and put on the Rolling… — Alice Cooper Copy Share Image
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I went to the big Picasso retrospective at the Tate in the sixties, and I think I went to an Andy Warhol… — Marianne Faithfull Copy Share Image
I remember reading scripts when I started in the business, and [Latino roles] were either nonexistent or written as the maid or… — Eva Mendes Copy Share Image
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