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The first time I got onstage was when I was about 5 years old. It was at a church social, and I had a poem to recite.
Willie Nelson

Time, Old, Social

Jews have deep respect for the Queen and the royal family. We say a prayer for them every Sabbath in synagogue. We recite a special blessing on seeing the Queen.
Jonathan Sacks

Family, Respect, Deep

I think being self-referential is really narcissistic. Who's to say anybody's even thinking of you that much? But some of these movies that I've done, people still recite lines to me, even 20 years later.
John Cusack

Movies, Thinking, Done

When I meet thousands of fans of the comic - when I realize every one of them can recite the Lantern Corps oath ('In Brightest Day, in blackest night...') - I know how important this is to people.
Ryan Reynolds

Important, Night, Realize

I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite.
Carol Ann Duffy

Short, Write, Almost

If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after.
Shmuel Y. Agnon

Food, Before, After

I can recite poetry, but I cannot write it.
Irrfan Khan

Poetry, Cannot, Write

When I was little I used to dance and model and that was fun. But I was always the person that was goofing off and I would memorize every line in every movie that I saw. And at recess that's what I would do, I would talk to my friends and recite movies.
Ashley Benson

Movies, Fun, Person

When you're on TV, you're looking at a half-page of material, trying to memorize it really quickly. By the time it's on TV, I've already forgotten what I said, but I can still recite my whole role from Shakespeare in the Park. It works a different set of muscles.
Jesse Tyler Ferguson

Time, Different, Trying

During my last year of college I wrote the same ten pages over and over again. Those ten pages became the first few pages of my first novel. I can still recite the opening paragraph from memory - only now I cringe when I do it because they are - surprise! - a classic example of 'overwriting,' in addition to being a more than a little pretentious.
Patricia Briggs

Same, Again, College

I watched 'A Chorus Line' over and over when I was growing up, to the point that I was able to recite the entire movie.
Sharni Vinson

Able, Point, Growing

My mother's father taught English literature. When I was about ten or eleven, I could recite Macaulay's 'Lays of Ancient Rome.' While other kids were playing pedestrian war games, I'd be Horatius keeping the bridge.
Bernie Taupin

War, Mother, Father

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