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There are two types of encryption: one that will prevent your sister from reading your diary and one that will prevent your government.
Bruce Schneier

Government, Two, Sister

I'm not that into reading. If I'm gonna read, I'm gonna read some cool sci-fi book or something, not some stupid self-help book.
Jon Heder

Cool, Stupid, Book

Yeah, that came out of a reading. It was great. It's such a fun crew to be with, and we all went out the night before and that really encouraged us to go out and get drunk.
John Leguizamo

Great, Fun, Drunk

My strangest auditioning experience was when I was reading for a TV show, and right when I started the audition, the casting director left the room and yelled at me from the hallway to keep reading.
Danny Strong

Experience, Keep, Show

I have such thin skin, so I make a concerted effort to avoid reading anything about myself.
Justin Long

Effort, Avoid, Skin

It took me about three years to write About Grace. I wasn't teaching two of those years, so I was working eight-hour days, five days a week. And it would include research and reading - it wasn't just a blank page, laying down words.
Anthony Doerr

Words, Down, Two

I started reading the Bible. All of a sudden the words jumped off the page and became real.
Austin Peck

Real, Words, Off

The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable.
Anatole Broyard

Book, Makes, Read

I don't think anyone wants a reader to be completely lost - certainly not to the point of giving up - but there's something to be said for a book that isn't instantly disposable, that rewards a second reading.
John M. Ford

Book, Lost, Giving

Whether you've done anything wrong or not people will write whatever they want, so it's just a matter of not reading it, not buying into it, and hopefully the people that do read it realise that it's just fictional stories for entertainment.
Holly Valance

Done, Wrong, Matter

Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about who am I reading this, and who else other people may be, and all that, it's so grimly brutal!
Robert Creeley

Writing, May, Else

The awful thing, as a kid reading, was that you came to the end of the story, and that was it. I mean, it would be heartbreaking that there was no more of it.
Robert Creeley

End, Mean, Story

In Ski Party we are reading up on how to have fun without sex. That was the theme of every AIP picture!
Dwayne Hickman

Fun, Sex, Picture

I really enjoy acting. At home I can't even finish a sentence, and here I am reading these wonderful lines. I think it must be every housewife's dream, to be an actress part-time.
Meg Tilly

Home, Enjoy, Acting

Now that I'm taking some time off from school, I've been reading a lot to make sure I don't forget everything. It's mostly classics and nonfiction accounts from actors, directors and writers from the '40s and '50s.
Fred Savage

Time, School, Forget

Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading.
Gilbert Murray

Great, Easy, Few

I've always been that way. I'm not very good at reading music but I'm pretty quick at picking things up.
Roy Wood

Music, Good, Pretty

I was lucky enough not to face any required summer reading lists until I went to college. So I still think of summer as the best time to read for fun.
Margaret Haddix

Time, Best, Fun

I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.
Margaret Haddix

Learned, Books, General

Let me just say something that I forgot, I also hoped and this was very true in the beginning - that this would also be a place that people would be able to walk in to the fountain and use it in a nice way of reading and examining the quotations on the blocks.
Lawrence Halprin

Nice, True, Place

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.
Sarah Orne Jewett

Mind, After, Tact

I fell in love with reading when I was allowed to choose whatever books I wanted to check out of the library. I was around nine years old when I began choosing my own books in earnest.
Adriana Trigiani

Love, Old, Around

I loved to read, still do, and it seemed that the writing was a result of the love of books and reading and libraries.
Adriana Trigiani

Love, Writing, Loved

There are no taboos. Every topic is open, however shocking. It is the way that the topics are handled that's important, and that applies whether it is a 15-year-old who is reading your book or someone who is 55.
Robert Cormier

Important, Someone, Book

A lot of our assumptions of the world are fairly cynical, fairly negative, and assume the worst. What our reading tastes show - in this rush to fantasy, romance, whatever - is that we actually still want to believe in a world of possibility, in a world of mystery.
Deborah Harkness

Negative, Whatever, Show

I teach 18- to 21-year-olds - the 'Harry Potter' generation. They grew up as voracious readers, reading books in this exploding genre. But at some point, I would love for them to give Umberto Eco or A.S. Byatt a try. I hope 'A Discovery of Witches' will serve as a kind of stepping-stone.
Deborah Harkness

Love, Hope, Give

I realised that today we are very much interested in reading about subjects that would have also interested people in the 1500s: ghosts, demons and things that go bump in the night.
Deborah Harkness

Today, Night, Interested

Really important books to me are the classics. I try very hard to read them well - you know, especially once I got serious about writing. So, reading Tolstoy several times - 'War and Peace,' 'The Kreutzer Sonata' - all those were really important to me.
Karl Marlantes

Peace, War, Important

My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust.
Jane Birkin

Mother, Nothing, Start

If the weather's nice, I like to be outside exercising, but when it's colder, I'm a real homebody and I catch up on my reading.
Jeremy Sumpter

Nice, Real, Weather

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