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I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, and two years in a row, I won first prize - out of like 5,000 kids! The judges were like, 'Very interesting interpretation!' I thought I was playing it right.

I've always loved to read. But sometimes I go for a year without reading, because I forget to.

I used to read five psalms every day - that teaches me how to get along with God. Then I read a chapter of Proverbs every day and that teaches me how to get along with my fellow man.

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

What's the challenge in writing a novel that few people will read? I'm more than happy writing what I do and have no plans to change that.

To be amused at what you read - that is the great spring of quotation.

It is with pain that I read of the dire effects of my book upon the minds of young girls.

I used to take five or six books away and bring five or six books back. Nobody gave me direction or advice and I read much in the way that a boy might watch television.

I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.

I just read that 81 percent of Americans are ready to vote for a woman. So it sounds like America is ready.

Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what we wanted to read. It was a feeling of having a book be mine entirely.

I grew up without a television. It meant that I read lots of books and entertained myself.

You read a script and its based on 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Pulp Fiction', and it goes right in the bin.

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.'