“As we were negotiating, I didn't have a script. Once the deal is closed, they let you read the script. So, I got the script and was reading it like, "Oh, please be good!," because I'd already signed on the dotted line. And I read it and just went, "Okay, I'm going to be okay. Thank god!" It was a really funny, moving story.” StoriesMovingReadingLinesDealsPleaseOkayScriptsBe GoodThank GodNegotiating Author:James Badge Dale
“And Mandelstam says a poet - you go down to the shore and you see an unlikely looking from a bottle from the past, you open it. Mandelstam says, "It's okay to do so. I'm not reading someone else's mail. It was addressed to whoever found it. I found it, therefore it's addressed to me."” PastReadingFoundPoetOkayBottlesShoreMailUnlikely Author:Edward Hirsch
“I like reading for things. I've shown up for jobs before where I haven't read for them, and there's something kind of intimidating about that - where the first words they'll hear from me are when they call "action." There's something about actually going in and earning a part and going, like, "Okay, they really liked what I did, and so I'm on the right track."” FirstsKindActionJobsReadingHavensOkayTrackEarningIntimidatingRight Track Author:Luke Grimes
“I was the type of person who was the question-asker. And not just genuine questions, I would ask a question so the author would know how much I knew about them. Once I went to a Tobias Wolff reading. I knew he was teaching at Syracuse at that time. And so, I remember asking him how he liked Syracuse. People do that to me now and it's okay. There is rarely a time when I just have had enough.” PeopleEnoughRememberReadingTeachingOkayTobias Author:David Sedaris
“Some people claim that it is okay to read trashy novels because sometimes you can find something valuable in them. You can also find a crust of bread in a garbage can, if you search long enough, but there is a better way.” PeopleIfsWayLongBookSometimesEnoughReadingLiteratureNovelOkayClaimsEntrepreneurValuableBreadReading BooksTrashGarbageBetter WaysGarbage Cans Author:Jim Rohn
“It was an emergency!" Seth blurted. "Read my lips - emergency reading - not some demented idea of fun. If I was starving, I would eat asparagus. If somebody held a gun to my head, I would watch a soap opera. And to save Fablehaven, I would read a book, okay, are you happy?" You had best be careful, Seth," Grandma warned. "The love of reading can be contagious." I just lost my appetite," he declared.” IfsBookIdeasReadingLostFunWatchesGunOkayLipsCarefulAppetiteBe CarefulOperaEmergenciesStarvingSoapGrandmaContagiousSoap OperasLove Of ReadingDementedAsparagus Author:Brandon Mull
“Okay. how about that time when you smoked all that weed that you thought was laced with something? You fell into the tub, but you refused to get out because you were convinced that the back of your head was going to fall off? "That third story happened to a guy named Jace in my dorm. Me and Sam and another guy in our hall took turns reading "Paradise Lost" through the locked door. I think it made him more paranoid, though." "That's not true," he says. "Well, he *seemed* more paranoid to me," I say. "And he still gets a little weired out when any one mentions angels.” ThinkingWellsLittlesMadeStillsStoriesGuyTurnsFallReadingLostHappenedDoorsAngelOkayThirdsConvincedParadiseHallsWeedLockedJaceParanoidTubsDormsLocked Doors Author:Holly Black
“OKAY. So I was going to the library every Saturday. So what? So what? It's not like I was reading books or anything.” BookReadingOkayLibraryReading BooksSaturday Book:Okay for Now Source: Okay for Now