Quotes with well-read

Quotes 1661 till 1680 of 1813.

  • Bobby Vinton When I owned the theater, I had the Glen Miller Orchestra. I had 20 girls singing and dancing. I had a cast of characters. It was a big group production, as well as ushers, ticket takers.
    Bobby Vinton
    American singer and songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Butch Trucks When I play, I stare at the left hand of whoever is playing lead. And I get to know what people are playing well enough that when they start going somewhere, once they arrive, I'm already there.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • William Somerset Maugham When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Bill Skarsgard When I read a script and have my first interaction with this character, do I feel like there's something I'm gonna' learn here? If I feel like it's something I've done before, then what's the incentive for me to do it?
    Bill Skarsgard
    Swedish actor (1990 - )
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  • Betsy Brandt When I read both pilots for 'Breaking Bad' and the 'Michael J. Fox Show,' I turned to my husband in real life, and I'm like, 'That is an amazing script.'
    Betsy Brandt
    American actress (1973 - )
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  • Bennet Omalu When I read Mike Webster's file before I began his autopsy, I knew he was more than a 50-year-old heart attack victim. His file and the television reports of the death of the former Pittsburgh Steelers center described a long, steep fall into bizarre behavior. I suspected he suffered from some sort of brain disorder.
    Bennet Omalu
    Nigerian-American physician and neuropathologist (1968 - )
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  • Becki Newton When I read the 'Ugly Betty' pilot, I thought, 'Oh, this part's funny.' I said to my husband, 'I'm going to get it!' But based on what? All my exquisite comedic work in a Nike commercial?
    Becki Newton
    American actress (1978 - )
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  • Anne Tyler When I read, I'm purely a reader.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Bob Monkhouse When I said I was going to become a comedian, they all laughed. Well, they're not laughing now, are they?
    Second obituary on BBC news website
    Bob Monkhouse
    English entertainer and comedian (1928 - 2003)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli When I want to read a book, I write one
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Ben Horowitz When I was a CEO, the books on management that I read weren't very much help after the first few months on the job. They were all designed to give you directions on how not to screw up your company.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Bruce Coville When I was a kid, I read books that made me laugh but also made me shiver in terror. I wanted to make books that made other people feel the same way.
    Bruce Coville
    American author (1950 - )
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  • George Washington Carver When I was young, I said to God, god, tell me the mystery of the universe. But God answered, that knowledge is for me alone. So I said, god, tell me the mystery of the peanut. Then God said, well, George, that's more nearly your size.
    George Washington Carver
    American botanist and inventor (1864 - 1943)
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  • Bonnie Tyler When I was young, I used to wear a lot of wigs, and I was running on stage at a gig and tripped over and it fell off. It was in the 1970s, and Swansea were doing really well in the league, and most of the team were there. I almost died, but I picked it up, put it back on my head and carried on.
    Bonnie Tyler
    Welsh singer (1951 - )
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  • Baltasar Kormakur When I write and develop things myself, I might work for a while on a script from a book, and then I go back and read the book and go back into it to see if I lost something: is there something there?
    Baltasar Kormakur
    Icelandic actor, theater and film director (1966 - )
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  • Carl Hiaasen When I'm deciding to read a book, I never open to the first chapter, because that's been revised and worked over 88 times. I'll just turn to the middle of the book, to the middle of a chapter, and just read a random page and I'll know right away whether this is the real deal or not.
    Carl Hiaasen
    American writer, author and journalist (1953 - )
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  • Bryan Greenberg When I'm working on a movie, I'm in my trailer playing guitar. And then on the road, I read scripts and think of... it just keeps both fires burning. I kind of need both.
    Bryan Greenberg
    American actor and singer (1978 - )
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  • Carl Hiaasen When I'm working on a novel of my own, I try to read mostly nonfiction, although sometimes I break down and peek at something else.
    Carl Hiaasen
    American writer, author and journalist (1953 - )
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  • Anne Tyler When I'm working on something, I proceed as if no one else will ever read it.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Bernie S. Siegel When one teenager dying of cystic fibrosis asked me, 'Why am I different?' I answered, 'Tony, because it makes you beautiful.' He loved my answer because he knew full well how much he had done for the world and that he would be immortal through his love and the fund raising of those who knew him hoping to find a cure for cystic fibrosis.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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