Quotes with speed-reading

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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ben Schnetzer It certainly isn't like I'm reading scripts thinking I need to do something really different. But you want to stretch yourself and challenge yourself; that's really the major turnon when you're going into work.
    Ben Schnetzer
    American actor (1990 - )
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  • Woody Allen It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson It takes hard writing to make easy reading.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Anthony Doerr It took me about three years to write About Grace. I wasn't teaching two of those years, so I was working eight-hour days, five days a week. And it would include research and reading - it wasn't just a blank page, laying down words.
    Anthony Doerr
    American author (1973 - )
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  • Bertie Carvel It's an odd experience reading interviews with yourself. Interesting, though. Of course, you know that the journalist will have edited, rephrased or even rewritten what you actually said, but you can't help feeling that there's a special kind of truth in the way someone else paints you, however subjective they might be.
    Bertie Carvel
    English stage and screen actor (1977 - )
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  • Breckin Meyer It's just I hate reading the description 'offbeat' about a character in a script, because I, along with Seth Green, Jamie Kennedy and a few others, have cornered the market on 'offbeat.'
    Breckin Meyer
    American actor, writer, producer, and drummer (1974 - )
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  • Bokeem Woodbine It's not in my nature to chop people's heads off, per se, or rob a bank or any crazy thing I've done on screen. I'm just comfortable reading a book or spending time with my wife and my daughter or watching the fight on TV with the fellas.
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  • David Mitchell It's true, reading too many novels makes you go blind.
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    David Mitchell
    English novelist and screenwriter (1969 - )
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  • Charles M. Schultz Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
    Charles M. Schultz
    American cartoonist (1922 - 2000)
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  • Lord Acton Learn as much by writing as by reading.
    Lord Acton
    British historian (1834 - 1902)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Bob Ney Louis Braille created the code of raised dots for reading and writing that bears his name and brings literacy, independence, and productivity to the blind.
    Bob Ney
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • John Morley Maxims and aphorisms, let us remember that wisdom is the true salt of literature, and the books that are most nourishing are richly stored with it, and that is the main object to seek in reading books.
    John Morley
    British journalist, statesman (1838 - 1923)
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  • Aleister Crowley Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely and swept away every mystery from sex; and this means the acquisition of a profound philosophical theory based on wide reading of anthropology and enlightened practice.
    Aleister Crowley
    British occultist, writer, and mountaineer (1875 - 1947)
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  • Alain de Botton Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.
    Alain de Botton
    Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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  • William Penn Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.
    William Penn
    English religious leader, founder of Pennsylvania (1644 - 1718)
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  • Malcolm X My alma mater was books, a good library. I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Thomas Hardy My argument is that war makes rattling good history; but peace is poor reading.
    Thomas Hardy
    British writer and poet (1840 - 1928)
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  • Edward Gibbon My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.
    Edward Gibbon
    British historian (1737 - 1794)
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