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I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.

I don't read my reviews, but I have a bunch of them and I will when I'm 80.

We sometimes received - and I would read - 200 manuscripts a week. Some of them were wonderful, some were terrible; most were mediocre. It was like the gifts of the good and bad fairies.

I want to be an advocate for the people who don't have time to read the newspaper... or the money to make a political contribution.

It's very difficult to read a book on your computer.

Then I read Little Women, and of course, like a lot of really young girls, I was very taken with Jo - Jo being the writer and the misfit.

I'll read a script maybe twice, but I'll think about the role more than I'll rehearse lines.

I'm kind of ashamed to be a celebrity. I don't understand wanting to read about other people's dirty laundry. I think celebrity is the biggest red herring society has ever pulled on itself.

I grew up in Ohio, and I was a musicologist since I was little; it is all that I would ever read.

I got to read some writings by serial killers, and they got inside my head. They were quite disturbing. I read disturbing stuff about that very detached way of manipulating people to do things.

Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats.

If I want to be alone, some place I can write, I can read, I can pray, I can cry, I can do whatever I want - I go to the bathroom.

Agents are essential, because publishers will not read unsolicited manuscripts.

Macbeth was the first play I ever read.

I think that some books are more successful than others to certain readers. People who read my books for the humor, they're going to love one book. People who read my books for the mystery, they might not like that book quite as much.

I grew up in a very religious family. I could read the Qu'ran easily at the age of five.

I don't think there's anything wrong with someone having to read a poem twice. Or even a book.

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.

Now, whenever you read any historical document, you always evaluate it in light of the historical context.

I deliberately never read about films before I see them.

We had literary references, so we knew what we were talking about. We could quote things, talk about books we'd read; you can say something, you don't have to explain it.

Ellis Peters's historical detail is very accurate and very minute, and therefore is not only interesting to read but good for an actor to acquire a sense of the period. And the other thing I think is that an actor lives in the land of imagination.

Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can.

I like it when you read a script and there's the part that you show to the other characters and then there's the part that only the audience knows.

When you read any great mystery, recorded in holy Writ, you are to prostrate your Reason to Divine Revelation.

We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans.

But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.

I just know so many people who have six or seven foreign languages and have read everything and have musical training and they are still dorks.

I have resolved to pick one novel and just read it over and over again for the rest of my life, because I cannot remember anything anymore.

I'm very comfortable with myself and my sexuality, but it doesn't define me. I also read books believe it or not.