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What this White House really needs is a chief of staff who can read Machiavelli in the original Italian. — Mack McLarty
When I read the script, I liked the script very much and I thought it was a marvelous part for her, because I think it… — Albert Finney
But other vampire stories? Well, no, I really haven't read too many, and I can't say I'm crazy about romantic vampires anyway - to me… — Brian Lumley
But most of all, what really attracted me to her was her manner. She laughed a lot, and it's easy to fall for someone who… — Nicholas Sparks
Sappho survives, because we sing her songs; And Eschylus, because we read his plays! — Robert Browning
I have read somewhere or other,-in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think,-that history is philosophy teaching by examples. — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
I am still on stage. If you read Press...you would believe that I should be gone. But here I am doing it and DOING IT… — Rudolf Nureyev
One was a book I read by Mahatma Gandhi. In it was a passage where he said that religion, the pursuing of the inner journey,… — Satish Kumar
The average American child sees 20,000 murders in TV before reaching age 18. This is considered normal. Every community has video rental stores filled with… — Rob Brezsny
As a child, I wanted only two things - to be left alone to read my library books, and to get away from my provincial… — Julie Burchill
Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds… — Simon Raven
I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing, but at least I'm alone and I'm an individual. I can stop… — Jack Vance
I never had any lessons. When I first started playing I used to read music. I was very interested in music. But when I started… — John Bonham
Taking the time to read to children is not only a worthwhile investment but also a wonderful experience. I have visited 119 schools in Maine,… — Susan Collins
The first really important book I read about filmmaking was The Film Technique by Pudovkin. This was some time before I had ever touched a… — Stanley Kubrick
Some people demand a five-line capsule summary. Something you'd read in a magazine. They want you to say, 'This is the story of the duality… — Stanley Kubrick
Since it is impossible to know what's really happening, we Peruvians lie, invent, dream and take refuge in illusion. Because of these strange circumstances, Peruvian… — Mario Vargas Llosa
The things young women read nowadays and profess to enjoy positively frighten me. — Agatha Christie
To read of a detective's daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy. — Rex Stout
I was broken in body, soul, and spirit. My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark that… — Frederick Douglass

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