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I read everything and anything. I love books.
Gail Porter

Love, Everything, Books

I read in the paper that I'd slashed my wrists. But I didn't.
Gail Porter

The more I read about feeding times, sleep times and waking-up times, the more inadequate and miserable I felt.
Gail Porter

Sleep, Times, Miserable

I wish I had read more and majored in literature rather than theatre. I think I would have been a better artist for it. I am trying to play catch-up now.
Idina Menzel

Trying, Play, Wish

I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
Beverly Cleary

Great, Library, Tried

We didn't have television in those days, and many people didn't even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening.
Beverly Cleary

Mother, Father, Evening

With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own.
Beverly Cleary

Down, Chance, Until

I read my books aloud before they were published.
Beverly Cleary

Before, Books, Aloud

People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don't really read children's books.
Beverly Cleary

Children, Books, Hear

I rarely read children's books.
Beverly Cleary

Children, Books, Rarely

When I was in the first grade I was afraid of the teacher and had a miserable time in the reading circle, a difficulty that was overcome by the loving patience of my second grade teacher. Even though I could read, I refused to do so.
Beverly Cleary

Time, Patience, Teacher

That's why I wrote this book: to show how these people can imbue us with hope. I read somewhere that when a person takes part in community action, his health improves. Something happens to him or to her biologically. It's like a tonic.
Studs Terkel

Health, Hope, Book

Our country, if you read the 'Federalist Papers,' is about disagreement. It's about pitting faction against faction, divided government, checks and balances. The hero in American political tradition is the man who stands up to the mob - not the mob itself.
Jonah Goldberg

Government, Political, Hero

I think that different pleasures work for different readers - a friend of mine won't read anything that's not a cardiovascular sort of page-turner. I tend to care less about plot, but I'm a sucker for humor and strangeness.
Karen Russell

Work, Humor, Care

When I was younger I used to lock myself in the bathroom and read in the dry tub.
Karen Russell

Used, Younger, Bathroom

Now I'll read anytime, anywhere. I love reading in front of the space heater. Isn't that a sad confession? But it's like my substitute for the roaring fireplace of yore.
Karen Russell

Love, Sad, Reading

I took a fiction-writing workshop my sophomore year at Northwestern, and I hadn't yet read Junot Diaz or George Saunders, Flannery O'Connor. There was something so attractive about those voices.
Karen Russell

Year, Took, Attractive

Two people have been really liberating in my mind; one is Wittgenstein and the other is Burke. I read Burke before he was a secular saint, before everyone was reading him.
Clifford Geertz

I try my hardest not to read reviews.
Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Try, Hardest, Reviews

Ellis Peters's historical detail is very accurate and very minute, and therefore is not only interesting to read but good for an actor to acquire a sense of the period. And the other thing I think is that an actor lives in the land of imagination.
Derek Jacobi

Good, Sense, Lives

I didn't want to play a rancher. I didn't want to have a cowboy hat on; I wanted to get away from that in the things I do. But I read the script and fell in love with it. As hard as I tried to say no, I couldn't.
Tim McGraw

Love, Hard, Play

'Hamlet' is the best description of grief I've read because it dramatizes grief rather than merely describing it.
Meghan O'Rourke

Best, Rather, Grief

My whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek understanding in knowledge of history, of cultures.
Meghan O'Rourke

Life, History, Knowledge

A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.
E. L. Doctorow

Work, Someone, May

I read while the kids play. I can see them from the kitchen window. And I'm a fast reader.
Reese Witherspoon

Play, Kids, While

To be honest, I wasn't a sci-fi geek at all. But I do love a good sci-fi film, especially one that can really take you away. And I read some reality-bending novels growing up, like stuff by Vonngeut, so I already had one part my brain open to the unnatural and unusual, and it's generally fun to venture into that world and film in it.
Olivia Thirlby

Love, Good, Fun

And I started as a journalism major at Ohio State, ended up in theater and I love to read.
Patricia Heaton

Love, State, Started

NFL Films has had one continuous, creative vision for 47 years. These are timeless things; timeless stories that we capture just like people go back and read Greek mythology.
Steve Sabol

Creative, Vision, Films

I just got my phone back yesterday. My mom had it for two days. I was supposed to read a book and I really wanted to play Call Of Duty.
Chloe Moretz

I think that's not a question that one can answer accurately. I read a whole range of books, quite a lot of history at the time, and still do read a lot. I read very widely.
John Hume

Time, History, Whole

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