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But at the same time, never having final cut before, I really learned an interesting thing for any studio executive who is reading this: that if a director has final cut, it's actually easier and more interesting to listen to notes.

Time Reading Interesting More Never

While I was thinking about the next film to do, I was also reading this book by Diane Ackerman called 'The Natural History of the Senses' - an anthropological and sociological look at the senses. But it also has this great sense of enthusiasm.

History Great Book Reading Thinking

I was lonely as a kid. Since I had no siblings, I spent a lot of time by myself and a lot of time reading.

Time Myself Reading Lonely Kid Had

While their competition is asleep, world-class leaders are up - and they're not watching the news or reading the paper. They are thinking, planning and practicing.

Robin S. Sharma

Competition Reading Planning Thinking

When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.

W. E. B. Du Bois

Words Reading You Numbers Will More

Sarah Palin - now don't laugh - is writing a book. Not just reading a book, writing a book. Actually, in the word of the publisher, she's 'collaborating' on a book. What an embarrassment! It's one of these 'I told you,' books that jocks do.

Writing Book Reading Laugh You Now

For we can affirm with a good conscience that we have, after reading the Holy Scripture, applied ourselves and yet daily apply ourselves to the extent that the grace of the Lord permits to inquiry into and investigation of the consensus of the true and purer antiquity.

Martin Chemnitz

Good Daily Grace Reading True Lord

Cooking and gardening involve so many disciplines: math, chemistry, reading, history.

History Cooking Gardening Reading

Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for some special reason, read an inferior book, at the very time you might be reading one of the highest order?

Time Book Reading You Special Why

I was reading William Shawcross's biography of the Queen Mother, dressed in my witch outfit! And you know what? It was a really good mix; it was a therapeutic mix.

Helena Bonham Carter

Good Mother Queen Reading You Know

I don't read for amusement, I read for enlightenment. I do a lot of reviewing, so I have a steady assignment of reading. I'm also a judge for the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, which gives awards to literature and nonfiction.

Joyce Carol Oates

Book Reading Judge Enlightenment

Our singer, Matt, was reading Stephen Hawking and other physics-related books, and I was reading entrepreneurial books, and we all started discussing the new technologies that were taking over the world, from 3-D printing to space travel. These conversations starting leading us to think of how we could portray these things in a musical way.

Travel Space World Reading Think

I hope to be with you as a writer for a very long time, and I hope that you will enjoy reading my work, because readers are the highest form of life on this planet.

Life Work Hope Time Reading Enjoy

We live in a moment and a culture when reading is really endangered. There's simply no way to write well, though, if you're not reading well.

Live Moment Culture Reading You Way

My favorite books are the ones that make me smile for hours after reading them. I want that for my readers, for the sweetness to linger. Sort of like chocolate, but without the calories.

Sarah Addison Allen

Smile Me Reading Chocolate Want

It frustrates me when my mind wanders and when I end up reading the same words again and again.

Words Mind Me Reading End Same

Seeing people who are actually reading your book and listening to the wide variety of reactions they have to it, is really special.

People Listening Book Reading Seeing

Mostly, I was only interested in television as a kid, and the majority of reading material I collected was an adjunct to that central concern, comic books and magazines included.

Reading Television Kid Majority Only

In 1969, we emigrated to Australia. It was a big change. The heat, the flies, and the completely different tinned meats. The shock was so great, I stopped reading books for nearly a year.

Morris Gleitzman

Change Great Reading Year Australia

I think readers are always patient. Look at the 'Harry Potter' series. Some have given up on this generation of kids as game and TV addicts, but lots of people spend lots of time patiently reading through hundreds of pages of dense prose. I think reading a comic by comparison is a lot more immediate.

Time People Game Reading Think Look

I want to seem completely bare. Especially when I'm reading for a role. I want to reveal myself in the audition room. That's where I'm happiest.

Myself Reading Want Room Seem Role

A classic is a book which with each rereading offers as much of a sense of discovery as the first reading.

Book Reading Discovery Classic First

By the time I was 12, I was reading my parents' books because there weren't teenage books then.

Time Parents Reading Because Books

Certainly with a book, people are going to be able to read it and give themselves permission to have that delicious feeling of being terrified because they're in a safe place while they're reading. That's what you can rely on as a writer, that people can let themselves be really frightened because they're really all right.

People Book Reading You Place Right

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