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  • B. Wayne Hughes Have you read 'The Grapes of Wrath?' That was my family. My dad was a sharecropper in western Oklahoma. When the dust storms came and everything got wiped out, they came to California. The guys with the mattresses on the tops of their cars in the movie? That was the way it was.
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  • Brad Feld Having read my share of tell-alls over the year, including some that were passed off as autobiographies, I mostly feel sad - sometimes for the writer and sometimes for all the people in his way. I hope that the process of writing the tell-all gives some release and closure on what clearly was an unpleasant and unfulfilling life experience.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Brent Spiner Having spent so much time in a fictional world, I prefer to read about the real world.
    Brent Spiner
    American actor, comedian and singer (1949 - )
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  • John Aubrey He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.
    John Aubrey
    English antiquary, natural philosopher and writer (1626 - 1697)
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  • John Milton Heaven is as the book of God before us set, wherein to read his wondrous works.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Caroline Wozniacki Honestly, I don't really read about myself. I look at the pictures sometimes. Sometimes I'm looking at them, and I'm thinking, 'They could choose some better ones.' But I don't spend time reading about myself because I know what I'm up to. I prefer to read about other people.
    Caroline Wozniacki
    Danish tennis player (1990 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Ben Gibbard How I wish you could see the potential
    The potential of you and me
    It's like a book elegantly bound, but
    In a language that you can't read just yet You got to spend some time, love
    You got to spend some time with me
    And I know that you'll find love
    I will possess your heart
    Source: Narrow Stairs I Will Possess Your Heart
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Buddha However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Dhammapada However many holy words you read, however many you speak, What good will they do you if you do not act upon them?
    Dhammapada
    collection of sayings of the Buddha in verse form
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  • Allen Klein Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.
    Allen Klein
    American businessman, music publisher (1931 - 2009)
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  • James Thurber I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Joan Didion I always want everything read in one sitting. If they can't read it in one sitting, you're going to lose the rhythm of it. You're going to lose the shape of it.
    Source:  (2006)
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Bill Hybels I can write about prayer, you can read about prayer...but sooner or later you have to fall to your knees and just plain pray. Then, and only then, will you begin to operate in the vein of God's miracle-working ways.
    Source: Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Ace Frehley I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke.
    Ace Frehley
    American musician and songwriter (1951 - )
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  • Antonia Fraser I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting.
    Antonia Fraser
    British author of history, novels, biographies and detective (1932 - )
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  • Bryan Cogman I couldn't enjoy 'A Dance With Dragons,' unfortunately. Of course, I enjoyed it, but it was the first of the books I read as a writer on 'Game of Thrones,' so all I could do is think, 'We're going to have to shift that,' 'We won't be able to afford that,' or 'That's a great scene.'
    Bryan Cogman
    American writer and producer (1979 - )
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  • Steven Spielberg I didn't read reviews earlier in my career, but I read them now as I'm older. I read them all.
    Steven Spielberg
    American director, producer, and screenwriter (1946 - )
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  • Anne Stevenson I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art.
    Anne Stevenson
    American-British poet and writer (1933 - 2020)
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  • William Lyon Phelps I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.
    William Lyon Phelps
    American author, critic and scholar (1865 - 1943)
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