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All the people who fought for freedom were my heroes. I mean, that was the sort of story I liked reading... freedom struggles and so on.
I think what has happened to our basketball team, we've been badly distracted. They're not reading too many positive things in the paper.
Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
You can look in a book of wrong and learn more right. If you're reading a book that has all wrong in it , you're learning what not to do.
When you educate a woman, you set her free. Had I not had books and education in Mississippi, I would have believed that's all there was.
Chicago is an exciting place which renews itself. The workshop system encourages close reading and frank discussions of papers and ideas.
I never really took a proper art class in college. I just started reading art magazines and going to galleries. I was really drawn to it.
Seven actors have played Batman on the big screen, and if you can name all seven without reading any further, your youth has been wasted.
If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer
I'm obsessed with TV. How wrong our parents were when they said we should only watch an hour a day. Stop wasting your time reading books.
If you are lying in a tent in the Congo jungle, you don't want to be reading about rainforest biology. You want to be in a distant world.
The great thing about reading for Quentin [Tarantino] is you're not reading for him, he's reading with you. So he sits right next to you.
I am a person who dreads any kind of public exposure and any kind of public event. I spend all day, if I have to do a reading, preparing.
You may have tangible wealth untold: Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you can never be I had a Mother who read to me.
If every head of state and every government official spent an hour a day reading poetry we'd live in a much more humane and decent world.
Millions of students now, in all the schools of America, are reading science fiction and especially, thank God, 'The Martian Chronicles.'
My most fertile reading time is when I have just finished a project and haven't started another. I binge-read and surf around bookstores.
After the first few readings in comedy venues I did begin to write for laughs. There's something so gratifying about stimulating laughter.
Reading a newspaper is as important to me as reading a script. Sitting in a cafe and drinking coffee is as important as going for a shoot.
Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.
None of [the books are] worth reading. There are no fairy tales, no faerie tails, no sword-swinging princesses or lightning-throwing gods.
It's too easy to unconsciously echo another novelist's voice while reading fiction, a habit of mimicry I probably picked up as a musician.
Literature has done great work for feminism - writing and reading are a practice of empathy - and great literature will continue to do so.
Instinct taught me 20 years ago to pace a song or a concert performance. That translates into pacing a story, pleasing a reading audience.
And honestly, if anyone thinks they can get an accurate picture of anyplace on the planet by reading news reports, they're sadly mistaken.
No amount of reading or memorizing will make you successful in life. It is the understanding and application of wise thought which counts.
The reading eye must do the work to make them live, and so it did, again and again, never the same life twice, as the artist had intended.
Jane Austen easily used half a page describing someone else's eyes; she would not appreciate summarizing her reading tastes in ten titles.
It's better not to know authors personally, because the real person never corresponds to the image you form of him from reading his books.
To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.
Never let a day pass without looking at some perfect work of art, hearing some great piece of music and reading, in part, some great book.
If we were in the habit of reading poets their obscurity would not matter; and, once we are out of the habit, their clarity does not help.
Grade school ruined reading for me by demanding book reports for such snore-a-thons as Benjamin Franklin's biography written for children.
The only question I'd be interested in is what books other celebrities have read recently, which is part of my campaign to promote reading.
Half the time I read Hayek's The Sensory Order with amazement at the extent of his reading and comprehension. He is right most of the time.
In a school community, someone who reads a book for some secretive purpose, other than discussing it, is strange. What was she reading for?
In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern boxes.
Our legal and political culture has created a bias in the law that borders on censorship against reading, displaying, or quoting the Bible.
All the general propositions favouring freedom I had .. imbibed at my father's knee or acquired by candle-end reading of Burke and Hayek...
When my reading ability is sharp, I can dodge bullets, baby! I have no problem folding super-strong hands and that saves me a ton of chips.
All I want is a modest place in Mr X's Good Reading, Miss Y's Good Writing, and that new edition of One Thousand Best Bits of Recent Prose.
As soon as my brain starts working on reading a book, my dreams get a little more exciting, and music comes a little more naturally for me.
It cannot be that the people should grow in grace unless they give themselves to reading. A reading people will always be a knowing people.
I've always wrestled with the difference between plot and structure, and after re-reading a lot of writing books I realized I wasn't alone.
After my mother died, I lived with relatives. Reading was a means of escaping into other worlds, as photography, much later, was to become.
Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.
It's a new day: Full of promise and love. The only thing that can take away that great feeling is - reading the news or speaking to people.
People are like almanacs, Bonnie - you never can find the information you're looking for, but the casual reading is well worth the trouble.
It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.
I started reading the big histories and the small histories, the memoirs and so forth. At some point, I found the diary of William E. Dodd.