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9540 Read quotes by 5006 unique authors
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I'd read Up in the Old Hotel, and I wanted to do something with Mitchell's stuff for a long time.
— Stanley Tucci
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Old age is when you resent the swimsuit issue of Sports Illustrated because there are fewer articles to read.
— George Burns
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I devoured Gibbon. I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all. I scribbled all my opinions on the margins of…
— Winston Churchill
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One similarity I see between peers and some of the people who read my books is that comics were definitely an outlet for us.
— Brian Michael Bendis
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I have many creative outlets. I sing, I like music, I like art, I paint, I draw. I like buying art. I read a lot,…
— Evan Ross
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There is very little difference between one who cannot read and one who will not read.
— Jim Rohn
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I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book.
— Anne Rice
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You read a lot about movies with budgets of $25 to 30 million. Hell, if a studio can piss away that kind of money, why…
— Roy Scheider
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I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer.
— Robert Cormier
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We learned in the university to consider Wordsworth and Keats as Romantics. They were only a generation apart, but Wordsworth didn't even read Keats's book…
— Thom Gunn
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I was a little nervous backstage. But I had this book, Gandhi. I just read his quotes, closed my eyes and focused my thoughts. Presently,…
— Nafisa Joseph
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In early life I had felt a strong desire to devote myself to the experimental study of nature; and, happening to see a glass containing…
— John William Draper
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But to the particular species of excellence men are directed, not by an ascendant planet or predominating humour, but by the first book which they…
— Samuel Johnson
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I love to read. And right now I'm on my last hundred pages of 'The Corrections' by Jonathan Franzen, and I really enjoyed it. His…
— Candice Accola
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Two kinds of reading can be distinguished. I call them reading like a reader and reading like a writer ... when you read like a…
— Frank Smith
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Reading and writing don't inevitably go together. You can read without learning a thing about writing, grammar, or spelling, although, you certainly can't learn anything…
— Frank Smith
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If you can't count, they can cheat you. If you can't read, they can beat you.
— Toni Morrison
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Some people act as if it were demeaning to their manhood to wish to be well-read but you can no more be a healthy person…
— Earl Nightingale
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Kids not only need to read a lot but they need lots of books they can read right at their fingertips.They also need access to…
— Richard Allington
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Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for…
— John Foster
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I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed.
— Jack Vance
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Once in a while you start having second thoughts, then you read a letter from someone that lifts your spirits so much - it really…
— Corbin Bleu
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I have been reading Stephen King since CARRIE and hope to read him for many years to come.
— Dean Koontz
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I'd already made the decision before I'd even read it-just because it was John Sayles. Then when I read it, the themes were actually themes…
— Mary Steenburgen
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I love mysteries, and I read them every night before I go to bed.
— David Herbert Donald
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