Quotes 1061 till 1080 of 1813.
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Read, read, read. Read good books. You will strengthen your understanding of story. Your vocabulary will be the richer for it.
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Read. Read. Read. Read many genres. Read good writing. Read bad writing and figure out the difference. Learn the craft of writing.
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Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave. I never get over being thankful for that - for the courage of my readers.
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Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.
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Reading furnishes the mind only with material for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
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Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.
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Remember what John Adams said about Ben Franklin, He does not hesitate at our boldest Measures but rather seems to think us too irresolute.
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Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.
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Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will.
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Restaurants stress the protein. People read menu items left to right, with the protein first. I read descriptions right to left.
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Resume: a written exaggeration of only the good things a person has done in the past, as well as a wish list of the qualities a person would like to have.
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Right before 'Brian's Song' there was a period when I was very despondent, broke, depressed; my first marriage was on the rocks. The role of Gale Sayers had been cast with Lou Gossett, and then he hurt himself playing basketball. I was called in to read for the role. I was their last choice, and I knew it.
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Right now I'm doing four shows at a time, trying to read four outlines every week, four scripts every week, and watching four rough cuts; it's a lot of good work. It's fun to do it, but it does wear you out.
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Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
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Roll down the window and let the wind blow back your hair.
Well the night's busting open, these two lanes will take us anywhere.
We've got one last chance to make it real, to trade in these wings on some wheels.
Climb in back, heaven's waiting down on the tracks.Source: Born To Run (1975) Thunder Road -
Rolling Stones, Beatles, we gave them all the break they were looking for. All they needed was a good opening act, and we went out there and performed as well as we could... over 15,000 kids chanting.
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Sadly I don't work well under restrictions. I need to forget the world and its rules and laws in order to enter the dreamlike flow of the fictional world. So I may be in some bad trouble.
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Sadly, I do my homework. I've a soft spot for the boring minutiae. I read the Charter of the United Nations before meeting with Kofi Annan. I read the Meltzer report, and then I'll read C. Fred Bergsten's defense of institutions like the World Bank and the I.M.F. It's embarrassing to admit.
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