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- Page 51I read cover to cover every jazz publication that I could and in the New York Times, every single day reading their jazz reviews even though I didn't put them in the films. I wanted to know what is going on.
Ken Burns
In my youth, I found that I was quite often inspired and pushed forward by what I read.
Peter Davison
When I read commentary about suggestions for where C should go, I often think back and give thanks that it wasn't developed under the advice of a worldwide crowd.
Dennis Ritchie
I read all the time. I was reading a book I admire very much by Alice McDermot called Charming Billy.
John McGahern
Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.
Jim Rohn
You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you.
Stan Getz
I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.
Randall Jarrell
I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me.
Jonathan Lethem
It is a common temptation of Satan to make us give up the reading of the Word and prayer when our enjoyment is gone; as if it were of no use to read the Scriptures when we do not enjoy them, and as if it were no use to pray when we have no spirit of prayer.
George Muller
Now, forty years after his passing, Winston Churchill is still quoted, read, revered, and referred to as much, if not more, than when he was alive.
Mac Thornberry
I have people that I'm close to that give me things to read throughout the season, and in particular in the playoffs and the postseason.
Derek Fisher
Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually read all, or almost all, the guaranteed Hundred Best Books. God save us from reading nothing but the best.
Robertson Davies
The more I read about feeding times, sleep times and waking-up times, the more inadequate and miserable I felt.
Gail Porter
Tim sends me a fairly ambitious workup in notebook form noting the passages we're going to cover and the chronology of the biblical events, and his commentaries on those things he's read and written.
Jerry B. Jenkins
I'm a person that just likes to speak the truth, and I don't understand why in America it's such a big deal that we won't read the Koran and we won't look at history.
Pat Robertson
Because people have read those things in the newspapers, they think it is true. Ten years ago all these things I have just mentioned would have upset me.
Ruud van Nistelrooy
If people choose to live their life in a way that does not confront the more troubling aspects of their experience, that's fine, if it works for them. But it will probably make them uncomfortable if they come up against somebody like me. So they just shouldn't! They shouldn't read my work!
Joyce Maynard
What's become of "yes we can?" That's easy. Finally people are starting to read the bills.
Tom C. Korologos
Poe was such a tragic and brilliant figure; he's somebody whom I've been somewhat obsessed with my whole life. I first read 'The Tell-Tale Heart' at age four.
Rose McGowan
I did not come into contact with any Muslim before I embraced Islam. I read the Qur'an first and realized no person is perfect, Islam is perfect, and if we imitate the conduct of the Holy Prophet... we will be successful.
Cat Stevens
If there was no Bible, it would be no matter whether you could read or not. Reading other books would do you no good.
Jupiter Hammon