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This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them

Free Country Folks Send
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I am naive enough to read incessantly because I cannot, on my own, get to know enough people profoundly enough.

Naive Read Incessantly People
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In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read.
Critics Cry Finest Full
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Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.

About Always Attached Craving
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The simplest way to make sure that we raise literate children is to teach them to read, and to show them that reading is a pleasurable activity.

Activity Children Literate Make
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They pay little attention to what we say and prefer to read tea leaves.

Attention Leaves Little Little Attention
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Confidence, as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I loved cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved.

Be Happy Because Cats Confidence
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I like to read books. I like to listen to music.
Books Like Listen Music
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I practice reading all the time. I read everything and having so many scripts to read, which really helps out as well.

Everything Having Helps Many
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My big break was becoming the spokesperson for Texas Instruments. Casting directors really started giving me a chance to read for projects.

Becoming Big BigBreak Break
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“When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one!”

Fairy-tales Happened Fancied Middle
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It's rare for me to read any fiction. I almost only read nonfiction. I don't believe in guilty pleasures, I only believe in pleasures. People who call reading detective fiction or eating dessert a guilty pleasure make me want to puke.

Almost Any Believe Call
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I try to read the game as well as I can.
Game I Can Read Try
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My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have.
Attitudes Books Changed Find
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I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.

Dull Found Lately Read
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In my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk when you would like to read

Position Read Write Talk
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Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

About Detest Except Make
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It is more raw and unfettered and I'm more likely going into something you could call extreme cartooning. There's a lot of that in the course of 'Holy Terror.' There are interludes where there are pictures - cartoon pictures - of modern figures and they are all wordless. It's up to readers to put the words in.

Call Cartoon Cartooning Could
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Well, there's so much to read, and I'm so far behind.
Well Much Read Behind
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To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
Every Fire Learn Light
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To read too many books is harmful.

Read Books Many Harmful
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The stars had only one task: they taught me how to read. They taught me I had a language in heaven and another language on earth.
Stars Task Taught Read
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To read a book, to think it over, and to write out notes is a useful exercise; a book which will not repay some hard thought is not worth publishing.

Book Exercise Hard Notes
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I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.

Because Fiction Like More
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I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn't getting the same kind of excitement from them that I was from going out clubbing. I wanted to get the same kind of feel.

Always Books Clubbing Excitement
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I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just write the book that I would want to read. And I put on the blinders, and I really - it is, for me, that simple.

Simple Blinders Read Book
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I don't really think about genre. I like to write books that I'd love to read myself.

Books Genre Like Love
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There are so many books I want to read. Difficult books. That's what I intend to do and what I'm longing for.

Books Difficult Intend Longing
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The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.

Did Give Good Good Writing
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I would have studied English, but I really don't like to read.

English Like Read Really
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But I have a list of books that I want to read before I die, and whenever I get time to read something that isn't a script, I'll read something from that.

Books Read Die
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I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was always financial strife.

Always Childhood Financial Great
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I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a career.

About Always Career Come
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I get newspapers from Britain and other countries twice a week and read them almost page to page. Sometimes I find I'm reading things I don't even need to read, because my mind is still hungry.

Almost Because Britain Countries
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I won a Marshall scholarship to read philosophy at Oxford, and what I most wanted to do was strengthen public intellectual culture - I'd write books and essays to help us figure out who we wanted to be.

Books Culture Essays Figure
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When I'm doing work online or on the computer, it's one thing. When I want to read, I want to go elsewhere, and I want to be away from the screen.

Away Computer Doing Elsewhere
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Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory

Braille Damn Develop Ear
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It's hard for children's authors to be accepted when they try to write adult books. J.K. Rowling is the exception because people are so eager to read anything by her, but it took Judy Blume three or four tries before she had a success.

Accepted Adult Anything Authors
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I don't want to sound pretentious, but I love art, I like to go to museums, and I like to read books.
Art Books Go Like
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I read everywhere. I read every day. I read on the couch with my dog in the afternoon and at night. I try to read at least two to three hours a day. I read only fiction.

Afternoon Couch Day Dog
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I loved to read, but I always thought that the dream was too far away. The person who had written the book was a god, it wasn't a person.

Always Away Book Dream
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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.

Asking Book Choose Entirely
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In order to enjoy the Word, we ought to continue to read it, and the way to obtain a spirit of prayer, is, to continue praying; for the less we read the Word of God, the less we desire to read it, and the less we pray, the less we desire to pray.

Enjoy Word Continue Read
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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

Lose it Never loved Breathing
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The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think.
The books Read Thinks Makes
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One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.

Anything Asleep Conduct His
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I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group.

Group Jazz Liked Lyrics
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The most bizarre thing I've ever read about myself is that I was dead. That was kind of weird to read that I'm dead - mostly because I was reading it.

About Because Bizarre Dead
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I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I'm not in a hurry, I will lie on the floor on a rug, look through some books and magazines, and maybe listen to music and try to do stretching exercises to tune up.

Books Exercises Floor Get
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I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book.

Because Book Dictionary Else
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