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“Robert De Niro taught me how to listen, and how to be part of the conversation. It's not just about reading your lines and saying what's in the script; you have to understand your character, along with the other characters so that you can always respond.”

Character Reading Lines Taught Conversation Scripts De Niro

Author:Cathy Moriarty

“Normally, what I do for fun is just nothing. I try to just relax. Normally, it involves just relaxing and reading and maybe going out and meeting up with a friend. I live a very simple existence. I would much rather just sit around and listen to a couple of records and read the paper.”

Trying Reading Fun Simple Existence Records Couple Paper Meetings Relax Going Out

Author:Colin Hanks

“Caring. And reading the Bible, learning about God, Jesus, love. He said, 'Bring on the children', 'Imitate the children', 'Be like the children' and 'Take care of others.' Take care of old people. And we were raised with those values. Those are very important values and my family and I we were raised with those values and they continue strong in us today.”

People Children Said Important Care Today Values Reading Jesus Strong My Family Raised Caring Take Care Old People Jesus Love Reading The Bible Important Values

Author:Michael Jackson

“The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.”

Writing Littles Book Stories Reading Black Reader Mark Woods Writers And Writing Writing By Writers Pulp Story Writing Writing Stories Creativity And Writing Story Writers Unread Books

Book:Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places

Source: Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places

“I'm a strong nonbeliever in the Christmas letter where you don't really read it because it's just full of kind of meaningless information. It doesn't really resonate to the person reading it, but it means so much to the person that wrote it.”

Kind Mean Persons Reading Strong Information Letters Meaningless

Author:B. D. Wong

“Theres always an anxiety about playing literary characters because one of the great joys of reading books is that you can create your own vision of things.”

Book Character Joy Reading Vision Anxiety Reading Books Great Joy Joy Of Reading Literary Characters

Author:Stephen Mangan

“My father was a tyrant about reading, and that put me off books when I was little.”

Littles Book Reading Father Tyrants

Author:Honeysuckle Weeks

“My first two books, Letters to a Young Brother and Letters to a Young Sister, were... distributed pretty widely. Judges in juvenile justice facilities started citing the book as required reading.”

Firsts Two Book Young Reading Justice Brother Judging Letters Facility Juvenile Citing Young Brother Juvenile Justice

Author:Hill Harper

“I can't see how I'd learn to be a better actor from reading reviews.”

I Can Reading Actors Reviews

Author:Ebon Moss-Bachrach

“I always loved reading. I always was the spelling bee champion. I always loved words. I always wanted to know what they meant, why you used them, who first said them. I was always interested in that.”

Knows Firsts Said Wanted Used Reading Champion Bees Spelling

Author:Brenda Lee

“To Kill A Mockingbird is one of my favourite novels, my mum brought me up reading it, and it never fails to move me.”

Moving Reading Novel Failing Favourite Mum Mockingbird Kill A Mockingbird

Author:Jessica Marais

“Kids think books are cool, especially when they see that people they think books are cool are reading.”

People Thinking Book Kids Reading

Author:Tyler Hilton

“The trouble with education is that we always read everything when we're too young to know what it means. And the trouble with life is that we're always too busy to re-read it later.”

Knows Mean Young Life Is Reading Trouble Busy Too Busy

Author:Margaret Ayer Barnes

“The best friend a man can have is reading and writing, and the bad ones to avoid are Go and chess and flute and pipe.”

Men Writing Reading Friendship Chess Pipe Reading And Writing Flutes

Author:Hojo Soun

“If a book is worth reading at all, it is worth reading more than once. Suspense is the lowest of excitants, designed to take your breath away when the brain and heart crave to linger in nobler enjoyment. Suspense drags you on; appreciation causes you to linger.”

Ifs Heart Book Reading Causes Brain Breaths Appreciation Suspense Enjoyment Drag Lowest Crave Books And Reading Worth Reading Heart And Brain Reading More

Author:William Gerhardie

“The six and one-fourth hours' television watching (the American average per day) which non-reading children do is what is called alpha-level learning. The mind needn't make any pictures since the pictures are provided, so the mind cuts current as low as it can.”

Mind Children Reading Hours Levels Cutting Television Six Lows Average Currents Fourth Alphas Television Watching

Book:The passionate, accurate story: making your heart's truth into literature

Source: The passionate, accurate story: making your heart's truth into literature

“[On reading:] It is almost the only inexhaustible pleasure.”

Reading Pleasure

Author:Annie French Hector

“Cooking and gardening involve so many disciplines: math, chemistry, reading, history.”

Reading Discipline Cooking Math Chemistry Gardening Reading History

Author:David Chang

“I'm always reading plays, and when I find something that I really want to do, then I'll make the time to do it.”

Want Play Reading

Author:Stephen Lang

“When I found out about the audition, I knew that I was going in for 'From Dusk Till Dawn,' but I actually didnt know that I was going to be reading with Robert Rodriguez.”

Knows Reading Found Dawn Auditions Dusk Dawn And Dusk

Author:Madison Davenport

“When I was nine I spent a lot of my time reading books about the history of comedy, or listening to the Goons or Hancock, humour from previous generations.”

Book Reading Comedy Generations Humour Listening Nine My Time Reading Books Previous Generations Goons

Author:Paul Merton

“Most of the time, I get auditions for deaf characters where the scene has them communicating in really convoluted ways, like reading lips from across the room when the other persons back is turned or having other people parrot what they say.”

People Way Persons Character Reading Rooms Scene Lips Communicate Auditions Deaf Parrots Convoluted

Author:Shoshannah Stern

“We want our teachers to be trained so they can meet the obligations, their obligations as teachers. We want them to know how to teach the science of reading. In order to make sure there's not this kind of federal-federal cufflink.”

Knows Want Kind Humor Political Order Reading Teach Know How Teacher Obligation Political Humor

Author:George W. Bush

“Teachers, parents and school administrators: Today's teachers can create a Planet of Peace. The communication process you will learn by reading Nonviolent Communication is the cornerstone.”

Today School Reading Process Parent Teacher Planets Communication Nonviolent Communication Cornerstones Administrators

Author:Robert Muller

“Speak Peace sums up decades of healing and peacework. It would be hard to list all the kinds of people who can benefit from reading this book, because it's really any and all of us.”

People Kind Book Hard Would Be Reading Speak Healing Communication Benefits Decades Lists Nonviolent Communication

Author:Michael N. Nagler

“I highly recommend reading this book, and applying the NVC process it teaches. It is a significant first step towards changing our communication and creating a compassionate world.”

World Firsts Book Reading Process Steps Teach Communication Creating Significant Compassionate First Steps Nonviolent Communication

Author:Arun Manilal Gandhi

“As far as nonviolence and Spiritual Activism, Marshall Rosenberg is it! Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life, is essential reading for anyone who wants to improve their communication skills. Applying the concepts within the book will help guide the reader towards a more loving, compassionate, and nonviolent way of understanding and functioning with others, and foster more compassion in the world. I highly recommend this book.”

“Successful tape reading is a study of Force; it requires ability to judge which side has the greatest pulling power and one must have the courage to go with that side.”

Reading Force Sides Ability Study Successful Judging Investing Tape Pulling

Book:Studies in Tape Reading

Source: Studies in Tape Reading

“I boast of being the only man in London who has been bombed off a lavatory seat while reading Jane Austen. She went into the bath; I went through the door.”

Men World Has Beens War Reading Doors London War Of The Worlds Seats Boast Jane Baths World War 2 Austen

Book:Critic's London diary: from the New statesman, 1931-1956

Source: Critic's London diary: from the New statesman, 1931-1956

“Reading becomes the fuel for development.”

Reading Education Development India Fuel

Author:Narendra Modi

“I remember once reading that it is still not understood how the giraffe manages to pump an adequate blood supply all the way up to its head; but it is hard to imagine that anyone would conclude tht giraffes do not have long necks. At least not anyone who had ever been to a zoo”

Way Long Stills Hard Remember Reading Imagine Blood Understood Manage Necks Imagine That Economist Adequate Zoos Pumps Giraffe

Author:Robert Solow

“In Kamby Bolongo Mean River damage and delusion walk hand in hand, and everything we think we know is gradually called into question. Reading like a cross between Samuel Beckett's 'The Calmative' and Gordon Lish's Dear Mr. Capote, Robert Lopez's new novel gets under your skin and latches on.”

Thinking Knows Mean Hands Reading Walks Novel Rivers Crosses Skins Dear Damage Delusion Hand In Hand Beckett Latches

Author:Brian Evenson

“I try not to think too much about an audience when Im writing the first draft of a book - at that stage, the prospect of anyone reading what Ive written would be enough to scare me into setting my laptop on fire.”

Thinking Writing Trying Firsts Book Enough Would Be Reading Audience Fire Too Much Written Stage Setting Settings Scare Laptops

Author:Robin Wasserman

“I got into reading a lot of noir and a lot of thrillers as well, and I really admired the plotting about those and the way that they can surprise you. And obviously to surprise people and to have twists in the tale, you have to plan quite carefully.”

People Way Wells Reading Plans Surprise Tales Twists Thrillers Noir

Author:Joe Abercrombie

“WHEN reading my present treatise, bear in mind that by "faith" we do not understand merely that which is uttered with the lips, but also that which is apprehended by the soul, the conviction that the object [of belief] is exactly as it is apprehended. If, as regards real or supposed truths, you content yourself with giving utterance to them in words, without apprehending them or believing in them, especially if you do not seek real truth, you have a very easy task as, in fact, you will find many ignorant people professing articles of faith without connecting any idea with them.”

Source: The Guide for the Perplexed

“I read Nietzsche when I was a teenager and then I went back to reading him when I was in my thirties, and his voice spoke directly to me. Nietzsche is such a superb literary artist.”

Artist Reading Voice Teenager Spokes Superb

Author:John Banville

“I've given up reading the papers. Since the world's so obviously bent on killing itself, I decided months ago to sit back and let it.”

World Reading Given Months Paper Decided Killing Bent Papers Given Up

Book:The Night Watch

Source: The Night Watch

“Well, I would hardly say I do write as yet. But I write because I like words. I suppose if I liked stone I might carve. I like words. I like reading. I notice particular words. That sets me off.”

Ifs Writing Wells Might Reading Particular Stones

Author:A. S. Byatt

“You have to have really wide reading habits and pay attention to the news and just everything that's going on in the world: you need to. If you get this right, then the writing is a piece of cake.”

Ifs World Needs Writing Reading Pay Attention Pieces Habit News Wide Pay Attention Cake Reading Habits

Author:Terry Pratchett

“I am very interested in human-interest stories emerging from modern India. I get my inspiration and daily dose by reading the Hindustan Times.”

Humans Stories Inspiration Reading Interest Modern India Emerging Dose Modern India

Author:Vikas Swarup

“I do not write for the reader to come, but for him who is here, short of reading the text on my shoulder.”

Writing Reading Reader Shoulders

Author:Mario Benedetti

“My platform has been to reach reluctant readers. And one of the best ways I found to motivate them is to connect them with reading that interests them, to expand the definition of reading to include humor, science fiction/fantasy, nonfiction, graphic novels, wordless books, audio books and comic books.”

“Just looking at pictures used to be considered cheating. No longer. The graphic novel is booming. Comics, heavily illustrated texts, books with no words are now accepted as reading.”

Book Used Reading Novel Accepted Used To Be Cheating Graphic Graphic Novels

Author:Jon Scieszka

“I think every parent knows that, like, boys and girls are different. And we just dont take that into account in schools on those things like required reading lists. Cause that was my experience, say, with my son, who had to read Little House on the Prairie when he was in third grade.”

Thinking Knows Littles Different School Girl Reading House Causes Parent Boys Son Thirds Accounts Lists Grades My Son Boy And Girl Prairie Third Grade Like A Boy Little House On The Prairie

Author:Jon Scieszka

“It used to take me forever to read and comprehend stuff, so I decided not to make the 'Captain Underpants' books too challenging. Don't get me wrong - the humor and ideas are often sophisticated - but the books aren't hard to read. I wanted kids who hate reading to find these books irresistible.”

Book Ideas Hard Kids Wanted Used Hate Reading Stuff Challenges Forever Decided Take Me Sophisticated Captains Irresistible Underpants

Author:Dav Pilkey

“What I like most: Reading well-written sources that take me to another world for hours at a time - and being able to call that work! Also, of course, finding a gem of information that is either exactly what I was looking for, or else fits perfectly into the story in some way.”

World Way Wells Stories Able Courses Reading Hours Written Information Source Fit Findings Take Me Another World Gems Well Written

Author:Linda Sue Park

“I often have trouble falling asleep at night, so when I'm lying in bed I think up stories. That's where I do a lot of my thinking. I also get a lot of ideas while I'm reading - sometimes reading someone else's stories will make me think of one of my own.”

Thinking Ideas Sometimes Stories Lying Night Fall Reading My Own Trouble Bed Falling Asleep

Author:Linda Sue Park

“Also, I've spent an entire week without reading any books or talking about them too loudly. I'm learning to work my apparat's screen, the colourful pulsating mosaic of it, the fact that it knows every last stinking detail about the world, whereas my books only know the minds of their authors.”

Knows World Mind Book Facts Lasts Reading Talking Week Details Screens Mosaics Colourful

Author:Gary Shteyngart

“I have enjoyed most particularly reading the correspondence between Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss. The genuine friendship, competitiveness and support that thread through their communications are life lessons for us all.”

Reading Support Communication Lessons Genuine Enjoyed Life Lesson Thread Correspondence Competitiveness Mahler Genuine Friendship

Author:Jessye Norman

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