Quotes 121 till 140 of 533.
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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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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.
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Having spent so much time in a fictional world, I prefer to read about the real world.
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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.
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Heaven is as the book of God before us set, wherein to read his wondrous works.
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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.
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How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?
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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 heartNarrow Stairs I Will Possess Your Heart -
However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
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However many holy words you read, however many you speak, What good will they do you if you do not act upon them?
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Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.
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I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.
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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.
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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.
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I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke.
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I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting.
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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.'
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I didn't read reviews earlier in my career, but I read them now as I'm older. I read them all.
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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.
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I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.
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