I Read Quotes
1362 I Read quotes by 1094 unique authors
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Fifty percent of all meaningful education takes place in the home. What do you share with your child? You share your interests. I was a…
— Walter Dean Myers
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I admired the work ethic of the cowboys I read about. The idea of these young people taking on this much responsibility was impressive. I…
— Walter Dean Myers
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I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.
— V.S. Naipaul
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I've loved 'Vanity Fair' since I was 16 years old. You know, we're all colonial hangovers in India, steeped in English literature. It is one…
— Mira Nair
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I did, although I didn't read from page 1 to page 187 but I read chunks of it. I did a little bit of science…
— Liam Neeson
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I love food. I mean, I really love food. I take pictures of my finest, funniest and most fascinating dishes, post them on Twitter, and…
— Rachel Nichols
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I read a lot of scripts and so many are clearly a knockoff of one familiar genre or another.
— Edward Norton
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I read five books on the Constitution. My favorite was 'Plain, Honest Men' by Richard Beeman. I went on a science jag in the same…
— Denis O'Hare
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I read good. I was an English major.
— P.J. O'Rourke
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I don't read for amusement, I read for enlightenment. I do a lot of reviewing, so I have a steady assignment of reading. I'm also…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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Sometimes I read reviews, and without exception I will read critical essays that are sent to me. The critical essays are interesting on their own…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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The books I read I do enjoy, very much; otherwise I wouldn't read them. Most of them are for review, for the New York Review…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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I kind of go in waves with reading. Sometimes I read all the time, and sometimes I can't get settled enough to focus.
— Conor Oberst
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez is one of my all-time favorite writers. I feel spiritual when reading his words, even though they're translated. I wish desperately that…
— Conor Oberst
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I worked privately, and sometimes I feel that might be better for poets than the kind of social workshop gathering. My school was the great…
— Mary Oliver
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Isn't it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like,…
— Joel Osteen
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I didn't care for most of the books I was being asked to read in school. I started reading like crazy right after high school…
— James Patterson
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You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories.…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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I never read detective novels. I started out in graduate school writing a more serious book. Right around that time I read 'The Day of…
— James Patterson
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I read all of Ayn Rand's novels when I was 17.
— Rand Paul
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I read an article that said one in five Americans thinks Elvis is alive. I want to find those morons and get them registered to…
— Pat Paulsen
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I don't read many business books. I read good fiction. Business is about people, so my favorite business books are anything by Dickens.
— Tom Peters
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After my first record came out, I read everything. I was so amazed that I was in the press.
— Liz Phair
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There are 50 new tabloids every year, and I'm in them, and I read them, and I do stupid things.
— Unknown Author
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Whenever I read stories of people doing huge pranks on set, all I think is, 'These people have too much time on their hands.' Besides,…
— Amy Poehler
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