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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.
Bella Thorne
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Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write.


Jack Vance
Imagine that everything you are typing is being read by the person you are applying to for your first job. Imagine that it's all going to be seen by your parents and your grandparents and your grandchildren as well.
Tim Berners-Lee
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I read everything and anything. I love books.


Gail Porter
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I tell my agent that I want to read everything.


Jena Malone
I can't do comedy that is cutting and vicious. If I knew I'd said something that was going to make someone feel bad, well, that supersedes everything.
Eugene Levy
If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well viewed.
Lily Tomlin
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.


Kareena Kapoor Khan
If you don't read it, you don't know. I mean, that's why I have a PR team. They read it and tell me if there's something, and that keeps you focused. I know my family and me well enough; why do I need to read about myself? I'm not going to change, I'm very stubborn in this way. I am what I am.
Anne Wojcicki
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If you read a lot of books, you're considered well-read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well-viewed.
Lily Tomlin
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I'm not as well read as I was when I was younger - I just devoured books.


Pete Wentz
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My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.


Kristy Swanson
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I don't think you can read poetry while you're watching television very well.


Edward Hirsch
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Conflict drives fiction; no one wants to read a four-hundred-page novel in which everything rolls along smoothly.
Nancy Kress
During the Gulf War, I remember two little third grade girls saying to me - after I read them some poems by writers in Iraq - 'You know, we never thought about there being children in Iraq before.' And I thought, 'Well those poems did their job, because now they'll think about everything a little bit differently.'
Naomi Shihab Nye
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Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling - I can so well remember it. There was always something more - behind and beyond everything - to me, the golden spectacles were very, very big.
Kate Greenaway
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Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.


Donald Knuth
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Well, I'm a consumer as well. I go to the movies with my popcorn and believe everything I see.


Kelly Lynch
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In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.


Paul Valery
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I read Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Reader's Digest... I read some responsible journalism, and from that, I form my own opinions. I also happen to be intelligent, and I question everything.
Gary Coleman
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