Reading Quotes - Page 30

• I hope that, reading 'Rosa,' people will remember their own family and friends and talk about what they did and did not do.

  Nikki Giovanni

  People, Family And Friends, Remember

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• ... when I finish reading People, I always feel that I have just spent four days in Los Angeles. Women's Wear Daily at least makes me feel dirty; People makes me feel that I haven't read or learned or seen anything at all.

  Nora Ephron

  Dirty, People, Four

  Nora Ephron (1978). “Scribble Scribble Notes on the Media”

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• I've stopped reading the comments below news articles and on gossip blogs because those are the ones that'll ruin your day in a second.

  Taylor Swift

  Gossip, News, Ruins

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• My role is to promote the authors image and their new books. I'm also brought on board when the author is "between books" to keep the name in front of the reading public. That's a challenging time for an author.

  Tom Robinson

  Book, Names, Challenges

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• The second volume of Reiner Stach's epic biography of Franz Kafka . . . [is] a tangle of counter-grained and often under-sourced life stories, but reading Stach's magnificent narrative (wonderfully translated by Shelley Frisch) straight through brings death, not life, to the forefront. Stach is a compulsively readable writer. . . . [A]s in the previous volume, the prose in The Years of Insight is supple and very appealingly complex--all of which, once again, is perfectly rendered by Frisch.

  Steve Donoghue

  Epic, Years, Stories

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• A person can do a lot of reading and research as I have done. I went to Spain and spent a whole summer there with my family, immersing myself in the culture. But all that isn't really necessary to experience the music.

  Maya Beiser

  Summer, Spain, Culture

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• She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a fine swimmer to water. The only difficulty was that after finishing the last sentence she was left with a feeling at once hollow and uncomfortably full. Exactly like indigestion.

  Jean Rhys

  Book, Giving, Water

  Jean Rhys (1985). “Tales of the wide Caribbean”, Heinemann Educational Publishers

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• I am personally not a lover of audiobooks in general, and I am indeed one of those people who don't count listening to a book being read by someone else as actually having read that book. It simply is not reading.

  Emilie Autumn

  Book, People, Listening

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• Some actors might just do one thing, and another actor does another thing. I do an awful lot of preparation with the script, really. What I do is repeat the script, over and over and over again. Through that, it's almost like it seeps into my enamel. I'm reading all the characters, as well as my own. That is where the bulk of my preparation goes into.

  Michael Fassbender

  Character, Preparation, Awful

  "Michael Fassbender Talks Haywire, Twelve Years a Slave, Prometheus, and X-men: First Class Sequel". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. January 17, 2012.

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• If you're a history buff, you know about J. Edgar Hoover. He was likely the most powerful man in the US. If you start reading about him, the books contradict each other constantly. I was often left with very little sense of the man personally. I had a sense of what he did and didn't do and what people disagreed about whether he did this or didn't do this or that, but I was like, "Why? Why was he doing all of this?" That was my big question.

  Dustin Lance Black

  Powerful, Book, Men

  Source: collider.com

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• Reading is a heady thing. You can be into the action of someone's thoughts and take a whole trip down someone's ruminations while seconds tick by in the world that they're in, but you can't really do that in film. Some films can, but not too much.

  Alan Tudyk

  Rumination, World, Too Much

  Source: collider.com

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• I prefer reading e-books on a high resolution LCD screen - like the iPod Touch's - although the pixel density could and should be much higher.

  Nicholson Baker

  Book, Ipods, Density

  "Ask The Author Live: Nicholson Baker On The Kindle". Q&As, www.newyorker.com. July 24, 2009.

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• I'm not too concerned what happens to my books after I'm dead. But I am very concerned by what's going on with the culture of reading and writing nowadays.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Book, Writing, Culture

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• A lot of times, you're not necessarily off the page because you haven't been able to take the time to prepare a character. It's very easy to find even great actors reading it more like a reading. Things aren't really coming alive yet, even though you know they will.

  Gus Van Sant

  Character, Actors, Alive

  Source: collider.com

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• I used to be very disciplined about only buying three books ahead of what I was reading, but my husband corrupted me, and now I'm dozens ahead of myself!

  Gretchen Rubin

  Husband, Book, Three

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• Writing has always allowed me to escape. I was a very lonely child. Because I was very socially awkward, I would always have trouble making friends. And so reading and writing allowed me to have friends and to have an active imaginary life that really sort of kept me sane.

  Roxane Gay

  Lonely, Children, Writing

  "Roxane Gay Will Make You Proud to Be a Bad Feminist". Interview with Hannah Levintova, www.motherjones.com. July 24, 2014.

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• I had literary interests my whole life. I decided at the age of five I was going to be a writer. So I had done a great deal of reading. I suppose I was more at home in Greenwich Village than, say, any of classmates from Warsaw High School. But in any case, it was an overwhelming experience for me. It took me some time to begin to assimilate it.

  Tom Robbins

  School, Home, Age

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• Ban poetry. And make sure that anyone caught reading it is expelled from school. Then it will acquire the glamour.

  Clive James

  School, Glamour, Bans

  "Clive James on turning his ‘last time on earth’ into a writing wellspring". Interview with Ellen Rolfes, December 3, 2013.

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• As opposed to being on the Internet, there's something really nice about reading a book or talking to authors.

  Hans Zimmer

  Nice, Book, Talking

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• As actors you have this trait to imitate very easily. I don't want to imitate anything or limit myself of finding this creature, this woman because I'm looking at magazines and I'm reading comics, and I'm asking people that are avid readers of The Guardians.

  Zoe Saldana

  Avid, People, Actors

  "Zoe Saldana Talks Being Green for Four Months, Avoiding the Comics, and More on the Set of GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. July 8, 2014.

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• I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television. My mother insisted that her children read. To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Mother, Children, Hate

  Interview with Tom Corcoran, bookpage.com. June 1998.

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• Sometimes to write you need to do more than just appear at your desk-you need to take care of the part of you that dreams and imagines and creates. Reading can usually do this for writers, but sometimes you also need to watch films, listen to music, go to an art museum, or see a play. Or just sit outside and soak up the sky.

  Barbara Abercrombie

  Dream, Art, Writing

  Barbara Abercrombie (2012). “A Year of Writing Dangerously: 365 Days of Inspiration and Encouragement”, p.185, New World Library

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• When I was young, I didn't like to read. I would have much rather been outside doing something than been inside reading about it.

  Tony Dungy

  Young

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• At 42,000' in approximately level flight, a third cylinder was turned on. Acceleration was rapid and speed increased to .98 Mach. The needle of the machmeter fluctuated at this reading momentarily, then passed off the scale. Assuming that the off-scale reading remained linear, it is estimated that 1.05 Mach was attained at this time.

  Chuck Yeager

  Cylinders, Levels, Aviation

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• Whoever writes a bad review, I put their name on a list, and they're going to get taken care of one day down the road. Otherwise, I don't let it bother me. The truth is, these are review-proof movies. The audiences are going to see it. My audience, our audience, isn't reading Esquire magazine to see if my movie is good or not. They just want to laugh, to be entertained, and lose themselves.

  Brett Ratner

  Taken, Writing, Names

  "Chris Tucker and Brett Ratner". Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. August 7, 2007.

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