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I was lucky enough not to face any required summer reading lists until I went to college. So I still think of summer as the best time to read for fun.

Margaret Haddix

Time Best Fun College Reading Face

Reading is how I became an actor because I didn't grow up in a house where there was an awareness of film or theater. I also grew up in a house full of teachers, so reading was big in our world.

Mary Steenburgen

World Reading Grow House Actor Big

I didn't learn to read until I was almost 14 years old. Reading out loud for me was a nightmare because I would mispronounce words or reconstruct things that weren't even there. That's when one of my teachers discovered I had a learning disability called dyslexia. Once I got help, I read very well!

Patricia Polacco

Learning Words Me Reading Help Out

I get caught up in my bubble of reading, writing, or music.

Antonio Banderas

Music Writing Reading Bubble Up Get

I love watching old movies, reading and having some good meals. I have a very close group of friends and family. I try to spend time with the ones that I love and work as hard as possible.

Work Family Love Good Time Reading

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.

Truth Experience Yourself Reading

One of the coolest things about touring around, actually, is getting to meet people, and getting to pick up on things that other people like. So many times, people come up to me after a reading and say, 'You must have read this,' or 'You must have seen this,' or 'Do you listen to this?' Usually I haven't.

People Me Reading You Say Meet

I love watching the Bond movies obviously and I grew up reading the books as a kid. I've always loved them because of that.

Love Bond Reading Loved Movies Kid

My mom would keep all kinds of materials in her classroom for children for reading. She kept comic books, newspapers, sports magazines, and books of all kinds.

Children Sports Mom Reading She Her

I teach for the Book Trust, which promotes reading and writing with children.

Children Trust Writing Book Reading

I was once again looking for a book idea, and I remembered Holmes, but I specifically remembered that there was this World's Fair thing in the background. I thought, 'I'll read about the fair.' I had nothing better to do. I'd dismissed about a dozen ideas, and I was getting sort of antsy. I started reading, and that's where I got hooked.

Ideas World Looking Book Reading

Before I was reading science fiction, I read Hemingway. Farewell to Arms was my first adult novel that said not everything ends well. It was one of those times where reading has meant a great deal to me, in terms of my development - an insight came from that book.

Science Great Me Book Reading Said

Sometimes people who sell books are seen as corporate salesmen, and people who sell reading are seen as literacy advocates, but you can't really separate the two.

People Reading You Sometimes Two

Although I could read before I went to school, and I won the school reading prize at five years old, my early children's stories came from the radio and watching films at a cinema on Saturday mornings in Australia. It wasn't until I was nine years old on a ship returning from Australia that I was introduced to children's books.

Michelle Magorian

Children School Reading Ship Early

Jeremiah is a most melancholy prophet. He wails from beginning to end; he is often childish, is rarely indecent, and although it may be blasphemy to say so, he and his 'Lamentations' are really not worth reading.

Beginning Reading End Worth Say May

What I didn't tell her was that I distinctly remember walking out of my junior year English class reading, 'Amandla Stenberg comes out as queer.' She unknowingly set a precedent in my life, a gold standard of how to be proud and exist in the intersectionality of multiple identities that were one thought of as being conflicting.

Life Gold Proud Reading Thought

Surfing and trail running chill me out. I like reading, too. And playing my guitar - I wish I were better.

Alex O'Loughlin

Me Reading Chill Guitar Better Wish

It usually helps me write by reading - somehow the reading gear in your head turns the writing gear.

Me Writing Reading Write Head Your

I think sometimes parents and teachers can push children away from reading by telling them it's something they must do, the same way they must eat their greens and must pass their exams in school. Poppycock! Read or don't read - that's your call.

Children School Parents Reading Push

I was reading a magazine when I was a little kid, probably about twelve years old, and an ad said that if you sell so many jars of Noxzema skin cream, we'll sell you a ukulele. So I went out and banged on doors in the snow in Quincy, Massachusetts, where I was raised, and I sold the skin cream.

Snow Reading Doors You Skin Said

I was reading a book... 'the history of glue' - I couldn't put it down.

History Book Reading Down Glue Put

English should be our official language. Reading and speaking English are requirements to become a citizen.

Reading Language Citizen Become Our

The HoLee model was the first term structure model. I remember reading their paper soon after it was published and as it was fairly different from many of the other papers that I had read, I had to read it quite a few times. I realized that it was a really important paper.

Reading Remember Important First

The celebrity aspect is nothing short of ridiculous, and auditioning is brutal and dehumanizing. Every time I see a pretty young girl on the subway reading sides for an audition, my only thought is, 'Man, am I glad I'm not doing that anymore.' I never feel nostalgia, just relief.

Girl Time Man Reading Thought Short

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