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My mum was never too keen on TV, so we kids all went to the library and got books out. Right from the start, I loved the works of Mark Twain. Every time I read about Tom Sawyer, I'd go out and do something low-level naughty, just like him.

Most professional players are their own biggest critics. Some of the things you read in the papers that strike you as bang out of order will already have been thought by the players themselves.

If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams.

I don't want to know about my biggest idols. I don't want to read their autobiographies, I don't want to find out what they're really like.

The reactions haven't differed; the concerns have been different. When I read for a predominantly Indian audience, there are more questions that are based on issues of identity and representation.

Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.

Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about 'Wind in the Willows' and read it and I thought this is weird, Rat, Mole, Toad and my first ever Bolshie thought - you know about 'The Wind in the Willows.'

Thoroughly read all your contracts. I really mean thoroughly.

I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever.

There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read A, B, C may read our natures.

When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as "Catch-22" I'm tempted to reply, "Who has?"

Read a ton. Take a workshop course so you learn to give and get criticism.

I didn't look at any of the newspapers, I look at the pictures sometimes, but apart from that I don't read them.

There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them.

It is preposterous that the current members of the United States Senate and all of their predecessors for more than 200 years haven't been able to read the Constitution and do what it says.

You can read a dozen different textbooks or how-to manuals that will tell you the basic rules of what makes a story - a beginning, a middle, and an end.

Sometimes, when you see the newspaper and you read something I said, you say, 'Oh, I can't believe he said that.'

My writing improved the more I wrote - and the more I read good writing, from Shakespeare on down.

I loved to read, and I think any child who loves to read will read anything, including the back of the cereal box, which I did every morning.

I must be honest. I can only read so many paragraphs of a New York Times story before I puke.

On a single day, I read articles where I was described as being alternately 'lanky,' 'pudgy,' 'doughy,' 'balding,' 'utterly forgettable,' and 'constantly irritating.'

I read books more than I go out. As a matter of fact, I get a little concerned about some of my anti-social habits. I will choose a night with Somerset Maugham or Russell Banks over a crowded bar any day.

I never read the tabloids.

A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer.

I was a pretentious child. I grew up without a television. I read a lot of books and I loved Shakespeare. Still do.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

Why would anyone want to read what I have to say?

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

I'm very perverse. If someone tells me I have to read a book, I'm instantly disinclined to do so.

No, I've never wanted kids. But I do read about parenting a lot.