"Cheryl Cole, if you're reading this, I may not be as prety as you but at least I write my own songs."
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"I love reading fiction about people who are connecting intellectually. I find that exhilarating."
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"Anthropology is separated from mass reading, and that is something that bothered Margaret Mead. She always said that she wrote everything for her grandmother, in a way that her grandmother could understand what she was saying."
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"Reading wasn't my religion - it was my oxygen."
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"I grew up reading SF in the 70s and 80s, and I like fast, thought-provoking plots that take you places in fully realized worlds."
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"reading is the soul's salvation"
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"it is very well worthwhile to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it."
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"Besides one should not believe that the people only want reading that is easy to absorb."
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"Before we go, I gotta know: If mind-reading abilities are real, there's something else I wondered if fiction got right about vampires-" "Ask me if I sparkle and I'll kill you where you stand," Bones cut him off with utmost seriousness."
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"You know, in addition to your mind-reading abilities, I may have absorbed some sluttiness from your blood."
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"Paranormal fiction offers authors - and readers - the chance to answer the question, what if? All the different ways that question can be answered make for extremely entertaining reading."
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"I never studied acting, yet the first time I auditioned and did a cold reading, I surprised everyone for my honesty and limpidity. They told me I could play any role because I have no walls, I don’t put anything between me and the character I have to play."
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"You can't ever let yourself be thrown by a camera. That's never good for an actor. When you're reading the script, you want to work with someone you trust so there's nothing to worry about."
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"I speak Mandarin and can read and write a little. I took a few classes at Harvard to get better in my reading and writing skills."
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"I was very happy and honored to create the Professor Garfield Foundation with Ball State to make reading fun."
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"To get to where you want to be in the next 5 years, you are either reading the right books or you're not"
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"I like reading, I like boring things, and yet I think people for ages had this image of me that I was on the tube with a chainsaw looking for any likely candidate."
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"Never let a day pass without looking at some perfect work of art, hearing some great piece of music and reading, in part, some great book."
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"The ground that a good man treads is hallowed."
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"The truth is that neither then nor at any former time, since I had attained my maturity in Age, Reading and reflection had I imbibed any general Prejudice against Kings, or in favour of them. It appeared to me then as it has done ever since, that there is a State of Society in which a Republican Government is the best, and in America the only one."
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