I usually doze off between 7:30 and 9 p.m. while putting my baby to sleep. Then I suddenly wake up remembering I'm an adult with no bedtime. I spend the next four hours catching up on reading, e-mails, and other adult pursuits until I collapse for good until sunrise.
Padma Lakshmi
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On some level, I think we want our reading self to represent our best self.
Gabrielle Zevin
BestReadingThinkSelfWantLevel
I'm quite nosy. Somebody will be reading a book on a train, and I'll go: 'How is it? Is it any good?' and they'll be like, 'Yeah, now let me read it.'
Ophelia Lovibond
GoodMeBookReadingTrainGo
It's funny that I got to do 'On the Road' because the thing that had the biggest impact on me growing up was reading books. I was very inspired by the book and this spirit of Dean Moriarty and how envious we all are of somebody who can be that carefree.
Garrett Hedlund
FunnyMeGrowing UpRoadReadingUp
I never have time to read now. I did all my reading before I was twenty.
O. Henry
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I'd been reading Eastern philosophy since I was a kid. And I meditated. I did it on a daily basis. It's the one thing I do with any consistency. Meditation gives you a different kind of mindset. It's very powerful.
Forest Whitaker
DailyConsistencyReadingMindset
I'm not really one for reading books. I have a very poor attention span. I'd rather listen to music, play games or watch films on my iPad.
Olly Murs
MusicReadingAttentionPlayPoor
All writers want to know that someone is reading their work, taking them seriously. It provides a kind of moral support.
Felice Picano
WorkSupportReadingSomeoneMoral
I auditioned for 'The Office,' and I don't know if it was a role I could do, but I liked the character. You do one take, and you're reading with a person who's just sitting in a chair and not really... you're not playing off someone, which is what I like to do. I like to play around and find the moment.
Nathan Fielder
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The journey that 'In Praise of Slowness' has made since publication shows how far this message resonates. The book has been translated into more than 30 languages. It appears on reading lists from business schools to yoga retreats. Rabbis, priests and imams have quoted from it in their sermons.
Carl Honore
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I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday.
Naguib Mahfouz
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I think when I was 12, I started reading Evelyn Waugh, and I loved Evelyn Waugh so much, and I thought: 'This is how the world really is. If I could be Evelyn Waugh, then I would be happy.'
Candace Bushnell
HappyBe HappyWorldReadingThink
When you watch a film, a huge part of it is the music and the coloring and everything that comes together to create such a unique film. So, reading the script, I had no idea what it was gonna be.
Maika Monroe
MusicTogetherReadingYouUnique
I've been on this kick reading about the beginning of forensic science: autopsies, fingerprinting, psychological profiling. I've been reading a lot of books about forensic anthropology.
Caitlin Kittredge
ScienceBeginningReadingForensic
If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.
Malcolm Gladwell
ListeningGiftReadingYouCreate
One of the great joys in life is reading, yet it's the main thing people say they don't have time to do.
Dana Perino
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What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.
Malorie Blackman
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Reading about Queen Victoria has been a passion of mine since, as a child, I came across Laurence Housman's play 'Happy and Glorious,' with its Ernest Shepard illustrations.
A. N. Wilson
PassionQueenHappyChildReading
I've just finished reading 'The Second Plane,' and I think it's some of the best non-fiction I've ever read.
M. J. Hyland
BestReadingThinkJustFinished
When I recorded my solo album, 'Keep It Hid,' in 2008, I'd gotten more interested in songwriting, inspired by reading Charles Bukowski and connecting with unfancy, interesting language.
Dan Auerbach
ReadingLanguageInterestingMore
Reading is my greatest luxury.
Louise Brown
ReadingLuxuryGreatest
Suddenly, I was reading these comics. I was looking at those bubbles, those dialogue bubbles, and suddenly there were words... recognizable words.
Philip Schultz
WordsLookingReadingBubblesComics
Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers.
James Earl Jones
ReadingYesOutThingsBigStick
If the weather's nice, I like to be outside exercising, but when it's colder, I'm a real homebody and I catch up on my reading.
Jeremy Sumpter
WeatherReadingNiceOutsideReal
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