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I don't like to read novels where the novelist tells me what to think about the situation and the characters. I prefer to discover for myself.

Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.

My parents read me fairy tales every night and I used to believe I was a fairytale princess, like every young girl. I had all the Disney dressing-up costumes and would play every character.

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.

I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.

Read much, but not many books.

When I was turning 40, I felt that there were no books out there that hit the spot in terms of what I wanted to read.

And really, the basis, I think, of achieving some success in what I want to do today comes from my mother's push to get me to read and to make something of myself from the standpoint of an education.

It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.

It is not Kafka's fault that his wonderful writings have lately turned into a fad, and are read by people who have neither the ability nor the desire to absorb literature.

The charms of women were never more powerful never inspired such achievements, as in those immortal periods, when they could neither read nor write.

I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of it saying I hadn't learned a thing I didn't know before about morals and what is right or wrong in human conduct.

Agents will read unpublished work because they might make money, and that's their job. It isn't mine.

Obviously people read the books in order to be entertained.

You can read about it all you want, but there is no substitute for just doing it.

I like to be with my friends and my family, listen to music and read books. Things like that relax me.

Art, a book, a painting, a song, can definitely inspire change, whether it's a small change or a big change but you know there's novels I've read or a scene in a film that I've seen where I definitely inspired something and made a change or addressed an issue in my life or done something cliche like make a phone call.

When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.

Whatever came to mind, whatever came to hand, I would read.

All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science.

I loved the material when I first read it, and the experience of making the film was a great one. So when we came around to complete the trilogy, I just signed on board without even reading the scripts because the experience of the first film was so good.

Some actors actually think about what they're going to talk about during the interview - they read up and meditate and plan quotes and get all inspired. It's very smart, but it's so planned. I never think to do that.

Ideas seem to come from everywhere - my life, everything I see, hear, and read, and most of all, from my imagination. I have a lot of imagination.

So it's the kind of business where you can't wait to get up in the morning and read the papers, or listen to what's on the news, and you know, how the world's going to change.

When I read the script for Will & Grace in 1998, I knew I was the only guy for the part.

To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.

You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false.

I believe there's too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on television.

I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff.