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Like everybody at that age, I read an awful lot of pulp fiction. But at the same time, I also read quite a bit of history and read that as much for pleasure as part of a curriculum.
John Hume

Age, Time, History

I just can't read music.
Kate Smith

I'd read the book and liked the book, but it made me really uncomfortable trying to picture myself in this part. Here's this guy who seems to be the embodiment of every single perfect guy.
Robert Pattinson

Single, Book, Trying

I love to read, and I like the fact that there's some silence in my life.
Giancarlo Esposito

Life, Love, Silence

There are people who have tremendously important things to say, but they say it so poorly that nobody would ever want to read it.
Theodore Sturgeon

Important, Nobody, Poorly

And I haven't read a lot of blogs but if someone writes about what they care about I'm sure it's interesting.
Uma Thurman

Care, Someone, Sure

I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.' I think I'd like them to remember me by saying, 'She opened government to everyone.'
Ann Richards

Government, Saying, Remember

I prefer to imagine that my wife, a few friends, and occasionally my mom are the only ones who read what I do, though I realize that this is somewhat unrealistic.
Chris Ware

Mom, Wife, Friends

Cartoons are not real drawings, because they are drawings intended to be read.
Chris Ware

Real, Cartoons, Drawings

There seems to be such a laziness in - and I hate to use this phrase - the modern world. Everything is pumped out so quickly so that you can read it while passing by, like billboards or those flashcards before movie shows.
Chris Ware

Hate, Everything, Before

There seems to be a peculiar kind of clamor for comics. And I'm not sure how much a part of reality that is. I think partly it's based on some idea that comics are what everybody wants to read - and I don't think that's the case.
Chris Ware

Reality, Idea, Sure

Poetry always runs away from you - it's very difficult to grasp it, and every time you read it, depending on your conditions, you will have a different grasp of it. Whereas with a novel, once you have read it, you have grasped it.
Abbas Kiarostami

Time, Poetry, Different

I'd read so much right-wing crime fiction where they find the evidence and shoot the bad guy - I thought there must be another approach.
Denise Mina

Bad, Thought, Find

None of us know what is going to sell or what people want to read.
Denise Mina

Most of the people who write to me are really clever, really engaged. They just want to say that they have read my book and liked it.
Denise Mina

Book, Write, Clever

So often, I read scripts and am like, 'This would never happen in real life. It's not trying to be funny. It's trying to be serious.'
Shailene Woodley

Life, Funny, Real

When I read a script or I see a character, I don't necessarily see the arc of her, that by the end she is this person, she's different from she was in the beginning. I guess it's more a subconscious understanding of that arc.
Shailene Woodley

Character, End, Person

I'll read, and then I'll take naps. When I feel sleep coming on, I give in and don't fight it.
Jacques Barzun

Sleep, Fight, Give

I never read Playboy before I started working there and stopped reading it the day I quit.
Harold Ramis

Before, Working, Reading

I'd read Up in the Old Hotel, and I wanted to do something with Mitchell's stuff for a long time.
Stanley Tucci

Time, Long, Old

So, whenever I'm writing, I'm writing in the presence of all the other books I've read and I think we all are.
Justin Cronin

Writing, Books, Whenever

That literary-popular distinction is, in my view, vastly overstated. At the far poles there are clearly books that are purely commercial and purely literary, written for audiences that want to see the same thing enacted over and over and over again. But the middle is where most people read and most people write.
Justin Cronin

Same, Again, Far

In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them.
John Selden

May, Others, Books

I'm a bit of a magpie: whatever I see or hear or read feeds into the songs.
Laura Marling

Whatever, Hear, Songs

I don't read that many novels, I'm more of a nonfiction fan.
Cory Monteith

Fan, Novels, Nonfiction

I read the Life magazine articles about free love and free dope in California. At age 20 I drove to Los Angeles.
Glenn Frey

Life, Love, Age

I read a lot; fiction and non-fiction are the mediums I find most edifying and inspiring. I watch movies and listen to music and take lots and lots of walks. Nature is a nice reset button for me, it's how I get a lot of thinking done.
Carrie Brownstein

Music, Nature, Movies

I want to make it so that so many things happen... that you didn't expect would happen in this series, that you realize that you have to read every one of them.
Kevin J. Anderson

Happen, Realize, Expect

Dune is the bestselling science fiction book of all time. It's something you really need to read in your lifetime. If you're going to read The Lord of the Rings, which everyone should, then you have to read Dune, too.
Kevin J. Anderson

Time, Science, Book

I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments.
Kevin J. Anderson

Good, Job, Everything

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