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  • John Burroughs I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
    John Burroughs
    American writer (1837 - 1921)
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  • Antoine Fuqua I take them seriously but I try not to read them. I take them personally, that's why I don't read them. I think people are lying when they say they don't care, that's not true. I take them personally.
    Antoine Fuqua
    American film director and producer (1966 - )
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  • Anita Diamant I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after getting rejection letters. And only write what you love.
    Anita Diamant
    American author (1951 - )
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  • Adam Sandler I think the reason I don't read is because, when I'm reading, I feel like I'm missing out on something else. You know, What are my friends doing? Where's my girlfriend?.
    Adam Sandler
    American actor, comedian, and filmmaker (1966 - )
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  • John McGahern I think there's a great difference in consciousness in that same way in that when we're young we read books for the story, for the excitement of the story - and there comes a time when you realise that all stories are more or less the same story.
    John McGahern
    Irish writer and novelist (1934 - 2006)
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  • Woody Allen I took a speed reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Woody Allen I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Bruce Robinson I wake up most days with a vague feeling of doom - 'Dear God. Here I am again.' Then, when I read about politicians in the newspaper, the vengefulness starts. By mid-morning, the anxiety is kicking in.
    Bruce Robinson
    English actor, director and novelist (1946 - )
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  • Bruce Greenwood I was thinking about doing another film at the same time, which was the sequel to Basic Instinct and I just had a feeling that wasn't going to happen. You know, I just kind of read the writing on the wall.
    Bruce Greenwood
    Canadian actor and producer (1956 - )
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  • Seneca I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Anthony Hope I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.
    Anthony Hope
    English writer (1863 - 1933)
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  • Anne Tyler I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them - without a thought about publication - and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • William Somerset Maugham I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Toni Morrison I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Barbara Kruger I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning news shows on TV and felt strongly about issues of power, control, sexuality and race.
    Barbara Kruger
    American artist (1945 - )
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  • Bellamy Young I'd love to go back and do theater. There's nothing like that instant response and the connection to a live audience.
    Bellamy Young
    American actress and singer (1970 - )
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  • Barbara Bush I'm a great believer that the most important years are the sort of early years but the preschool years and then into the first and second grades. If you get a good base in the first and second grade and you can read, you can do anything.
    Barbara Bush
    American First Lady (1925 - 2018)
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  • B. D. Wong I'm a strong nonbeliever in the Christmas letter where you don't really read it because it's just full of kind of meaningless information. It doesn't really resonate to the person reading it, but it means so much to the person that wrote it.
    B. D. Wong
    American actor (1960 - )
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  • Bruno Tonioli I'm a sucker for turquoise sea, white beaches and palm trees. I've been to the tropics every year since I could afford it. It's the perfect place to unwind. I can chill out, read, do a bit of yoga.
    Bruno Tonioli
    Italian choreographer and dancer (1955 - )
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  • Burton Hillis I'm not convinced that the world is in any worse shape than it ever was. It is just in this age of almost instantaneous communication, we bear the weight of problems our forefathers only read about after they were solved.
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