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Numbers of the old people cannot read. Those who can seldom do.

If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.

When I read the script, I liked the script very much and I thought it was a marvelous part for her, because I think it is a change of pace. I mean, we know how wonderful she is in romantic comedy.

I rarely read or buy a book because of a review.

I would really hate it if I could call up Kafka or Hemingway or Salinger and any question I could throw at them they would have an answer. That's the magic when you read or hear something wonderful - there's no one that has all the answers.

It has never been necessary for me to learn how to read music.

I think I've got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn't read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.

The caricature of what George Osborne is doing on the fiscal side is absurd. If you read some of the commentary, particularly from the left, you would think he was turning the clock back to the 1930s.

To be honest, I wasn't a sci-fi geek at all. But I do love a good sci-fi film, especially one that can really take you away. And I read some reality-bending novels growing up, like stuff by Vonngeut, so I already had one part my brain open to the unnatural and unusual, and it's generally fun to venture into that world and film in it.

A magazine is simply a device to induce people to read advertising.

It is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicator's skill. For whereas the writer is concerned with what he puts into his writings, the communicator is concerned with what the reader gets out of it. He therefore becomes a student of how people read or listen.

My favorite part is the preparation because you read on the page, you get this character.

Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

'Macbeth' was the first play I ever read. In fact, I remember my brother Tom, who is six years older than me, coming home from school and telling me about it. He was the one that really got me going.

People don't want to read subtitles.

I play with my grandchildren. I tend to my garden, which I love. Of course, I love to read, and family is really what it's all about.

One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've forgotten what happened.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.

Honestly, I think we should be delighted people still want to read, be it on a Kindle or a Nook or whatever the latest device is.

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.

I'm against people reading statements. When you read statement, I automatically take it as though you can't talk, and it's not real.

Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.

I read a lot, but I read about the areas that I'm interested in.

Well, first of all, you read the script a million times. Because what the script gives you are given circumstances. Given circumstances are all the facts of your character.

When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.

Forgive me, Spirit of my spirit, for this, that I have found it easier to read the mystery told in tears and understood Thee better in sorrow than in joy.

In the book, I write about children in first grade who were taught to read by reading want ads. They learned to write by writing job applications. Imagine what would happen if anyone tried to do that to children in a predominantly white suburban school.

I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I'm in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times.

I just read an 800-page history of the Scottish Enlightenment and, honestly, I may as well just start it again now, because I cannot remember a single thing. I can barely remember where Scotland is.