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[T]he only luxury he allows himself is buying books, paperback books, mostly novels, American novels, British novels, foreign novels in translation, but in the end books are not luxuries so much as necessities, and reading is an addiction he has no wish to be cured of Picture Quote #1

Instead of reading a paper, we now read the news online. Instead of buying books at a store, we buy them on-line. What’s so revolutionary? The Internet has mainly affected our leisure life Picture Quote #1

Calvin and Hobbes are the only two characters from my childhood reading that I return to with any regularity, and they have grown with me, yielding newer and deeper meaning Picture Quote #1

Reading words puts them in your mind. You never forget. Even when you don’t get a chance to dwell on the music, you can hear it in your head Picture Quote #1

I kind of go in waves with reading. Sometimes I read all the time, and sometimes I can’t get settled enough to focus Picture Quote #1

Canada has always been a great place for literature. It’s strong and growing stronger, and there will always be reading, and there will always be great writers Picture Quote #1

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I read a lot of The Canterbury Tales on my phone, because I was cycling between three different editions, and I needed to have a middle-of-the-night edition for the insomniac reading Picture Quote #1

Dad always explained the car engine when he repaired it, and he had many technical books, so I was making electromagnets by age eight as well as reading my mother’s medical and nursing books. I suspect I was born with a boundless curiosity, and this was encouraged through my childhood Picture Quote #1

Thanks to my friends for their care in my breeding, Who taught me betimes to love working and reading Picture Quote #1

When my kids were growing up, I wanted their teachers to teach them science, reading, math and history. I also wanted them to care about my kids. But I did not want my children’s public school teachers teaching them religion. That was my job as a parent and the job of our church, Sunday school, and youth group Picture Quote #1

By reading the characteristic features of any man’s castles in the air you can make a shrewd guess as to his underlying desires which are frustrated Picture Quote #1

It was the books I started reading. It was the music I started listening to. It was the television I started watching. I found myself thinking again. I tried to stop because it was only causing pain. I couldn’t. Wen all this is in your head it has to come out into your life. If it doesn’t, you get crushed. I’m not going to get crushed Picture Quote #1

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If we’re reading a first-person account, we know that each and every one of us, myself included, have a great desire to be seen in a certain way, or to be perceived in a certain way. It’s unavoidable Picture Quote #1

First, there was Confucius. Then, the sayings of Chairman Mao. And now the pithy, ironic, and humorous insights of Ai Weiwei. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this collection, which reflects a well-developed philosophy as well as a keen understanding of the Chinese Communist system. This is China made easy and interesting Picture Quote #1

If you’re in your life, chance. Viewed from the outside, like a book you’re reading, it’s fate all the way Picture Quote #1

I think children love reading, and they will make time for it if we put the right books into their hands. And I hope I get the chance to keep being one of the people that writes them Picture Quote #1

I had a very insightful friend who warned me back when I stopped reading scripts, ‘It’s easier to change directions while you’re still moving.’ If you stop, it’s harder to get started again. I still don’t think I made the wrong decision, but he was right Picture Quote #1

Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued Picture Quote #1

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It’s definitely a thing to be sitting there, getting a pedicure, and you look over and someone is reading an article about an aspect of your life that you know is not true. It’s weird, it’s uncomfortable, but I don’t see it changing anytime soon, so I should figure a way to laugh through it Picture Quote #1

I have to entertain, because if I don’t entertain you, you’re not going to continue reading. But if I’m not out to enlighten, or change your mind about something, or change your behavior, then I really don’t want to take the journey Picture Quote #1

When you’re young, you keep reading new writers and you keep changing your mind about how you ought to sound Picture Quote #1

There is no question in my mind: reading Gandhi’s autobiography changed my life Picture Quote #1

I highly recommend reading this book, and applying the NVC process it teaches. It is a significant first step towards changing our communication and creating a compassionate world Picture Quote #1

I’m getting ready to write a piece now, and it’s been six months thinking about it, changing the instrumentation, changing the name, doing more reading Picture Quote #1

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As far as superhero stories, what’s appealing is of course that aspect of wish fulfillment. I mean, you start out reading them as a kid, and a couple things jump out at you - there are heroes out there, and you wish you could run into a phone booth and change your life, or be like Peter Parker and put on a mask and become a hero Picture Quote #1

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.’ Picture Quote #1

There’s always an anxiety about playing literary characters because one of the great joys of reading books is that you can create your own vision of things Picture Quote #1

In order to have a charismatic leader, you have to have a charismatic program. Because if you have a charismatic program, then if you can read you can lead. When the leader gets killed while you’re reading from page 13 of your charismatic program, you can bury the man with honors, then continue the plan by reading from page 14. Let’s keep on Picture Quote #1

I made ‘Prozac Nation’ necessary reading because I write necessarily. I tell my story because it is about everyone else: in 1993, people took pills to relieve the pain just like they do now, but it scared them; it doesn’t any more, because talk is not cheap at all - it is tender Picture Quote #1

She liked to sit on the front porch in the afternoons and read books she’d checked out from the library. Aside from coffee, reading was her only indulgence Picture Quote #1

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[T]he only luxury he allows himself is buying books, paperback books, mostly novels, American novels, British novels, foreign novels in translation, but in the end books are not luxuries so much as necessities, and reading is an addiction he has no wish to be cured of. (Reading Quotes) Instead of reading a paper, we now read the news online. Instead of buying books at a store, we buy them on-line. What’s so revolutionary? The Internet has mainly affected our leisure life. (Reading Quotes) Calvin and Hobbes are the only two characters from my childhood reading that I return to with any regularity, and they have grown with me, yielding newer and deeper meaning. (Reading Quotes) Reading words puts them in your mind. You never forget. Even when you don’t get a chance to dwell on the music, you can hear it in your head. (Reading Quotes) I kind of go in waves with reading. Sometimes I read all the time, and sometimes I can’t get settled enough to focus. (Reading Quotes) Canada has always been a great place for literature. It’s strong and growing stronger, and there will always be reading, and there will always be great writers. (Reading Quotes) I read a lot of The Canterbury Tales on my phone, because I was cycling between three different editions, and I needed to have a middle-of-the-night edition for the insomniac reading. (Reading Quotes) Dad always explained the car engine when he repaired it, and he had many technical books, so I was making electromagnets by age eight as well as reading my mother’s medical and nursing books. I suspect I was born with a boundless curiosity, and this was encouraged through my childhood. (Reading Quotes) Thanks to my friends for their care in my breeding, Who taught me betimes to love working and reading. (Reading Quotes) When my kids were growing up, I wanted their teachers to teach them science, reading, math and history. I also wanted them to care about my kids. But I did not want my children’s public school teachers teaching them religion. That was my job as a parent and the job of our church, Sunday school, and youth group. (Reading Quotes) By reading the characteristic features of any man’s castles in the air you can make a shrewd guess as to his underlying desires which are frustrated. (Reading Quotes) It was the books I started reading. It was the music I started listening to. It was the television I started watching. I found myself thinking again. I tried to stop because it was only causing pain. I couldn’t. Wen all this is in your head it has to come out into your life. If it doesn’t, you get crushed. I’m not going to get crushed. (Reading Quotes) If we’re reading a first-person account, we know that each and every one of us, myself included, have a great desire to be seen in a certain way, or to be perceived in a certain way. It’s unavoidable. (Reading Quotes) First, there was Confucius. Then, the sayings of Chairman Mao. And now the pithy, ironic, and humorous insights of Ai Weiwei. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this collection, which reflects a well-developed philosophy as well as a keen understanding of the Chinese Communist system. This is China made easy and interesting. (Reading Quotes) If you’re in your life, chance. Viewed from the outside, like a book you’re reading, it’s fate all the way. (Reading Quotes) I think children love reading, and they will make time for it if we put the right books into their hands. And I hope I get the chance to keep being one of the people that writes them. (Reading Quotes) I had a very insightful friend who warned me back when I stopped reading scripts, ‘It’s easier to change directions while you’re still moving.’ If you stop, it’s harder to get started again. I still don’t think I made the wrong decision, but he was right. (Reading Quotes) Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued. (Reading Quotes) It’s definitely a thing to be sitting there, getting a pedicure, and you look over and someone is reading an article about an aspect of your life that you know is not true. It’s weird, it’s uncomfortable, but I don’t see it changing anytime soon, so I should figure a way to laugh through it. (Reading Quotes) I have to entertain, because if I don’t entertain you, you’re not going to continue reading. But if I’m not out to enlighten, or change your mind about something, or change your behavior, then I really don’t want to take the journey. (Reading Quotes) When you’re young, you keep reading new writers and you keep changing your mind about how you ought to sound. (Reading Quotes) There is no question in my mind: reading Gandhi’s autobiography changed my life (Reading Quotes) I highly recommend reading this book, and applying the NVC process it teaches. It is a significant first step towards changing our communication and creating a compassionate world. (Reading Quotes) I’m getting ready to write a piece now, and it’s been six months thinking about it, changing the instrumentation, changing the name, doing more reading. (Reading Quotes) As far as superhero stories, what’s appealing is of course that aspect of wish fulfillment. I mean, you start out reading them as a kid, and a couple things jump out at you - there are heroes out there, and you wish you could run into a phone booth and change your life, or be like Peter Parker and put on a mask and become a hero. (Reading Quotes) 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.’ (Reading Quotes) There’s always an anxiety about playing literary characters because one of the great joys of reading books is that you can create your own vision of things. (Reading Quotes) In order to have a charismatic leader, you have to have a charismatic program. Because if you have a charismatic program, then if you can read you can lead. When the leader gets killed while you’re reading from page 13 of your charismatic program, you can bury the man with honors, then continue the plan by reading from page 14. Let’s keep on. (Reading Quotes) I made ‘Prozac Nation’ necessary reading because I write necessarily. I tell my story because it is about everyone else: in 1993, people took pills to relieve the pain just like they do now, but it scared them; it doesn’t any more, because talk is not cheap at all - it is tender. (Reading Quotes) She liked to sit on the front porch in the afternoons and read books she’d checked out from the library. Aside from coffee, reading was her only indulgence. (Reading Quotes)

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