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Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else's shoes for a while.


Malorie Blackman
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.


R. Buckminster Fuller
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I don't need someone else's power. I'm obtaining my own.


Megan Fox
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Control your own destiny or someone else will.


Jack Welch
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I think a writer's job is to provoke questions. I like to think that if someone's read a book of mine, they've had - I don't know what - the literary equivalent of a shower. Something that would start them thinking in a slightly different way, perhaps. That's what I think writers are for.
Doris Lessing
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We often feel a twinge of guilt over our own fascination with presidential candidates' wives - as if we are secretly reading the 'Star' for our campaign information instead of the policy journals.
Naomi Wolf
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When I was little, I was a voracious reader, and that really led me to acting as well. I loved being transported into someone else's life, and that's what reading provided me. I also really love to entertain people.
Autumn Reeser
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It usually helps me write by reading - somehow the reading gear in your head turns the writing gear.


Steven Wright
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I keep waiting for someone to cast me as the angel or the witch or the immortal of some kind because so much of the reading I do for my own pleasure is fantasy, horror, or sci-fi.
Lorraine Toussaint
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I can enjoy what I'm engaged in and be fully present rather than planning my answers to questions while someone else is speaking or thinking about my next appointment while my current engagement is still in in progress.
Iman
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When reading, only read. When eating, only eat. When thinking, only think.


Seung Sahn
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Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that briefly makes us believe we're someone else, disrupting the delusion that we're permanent and at the center of the universe. Suddenly (we're saved!) other people are real again, and we're fond of them.
George Saunders
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I think its naive to think you can push yourself as hard as someone else can push you, but I work really hard on my own. I know my body.
Charlie Weber
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I've always got stuff in my head in case I meet somebody like Steven Spielberg or someone like that, where I can hopefully say something to them that nobody else has ever said and get a laugh out of them.
Drew Carey
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When I was small, I was always thinking about different worlds in my head.


Hideo Kojima
It's okay to work for someone else; not everyone is cut out to own a business, and even so, working for someone else is a chance to learn how to both be an employee and an employer.
Marcus Lemonis
The ability to absorb a book and make someone else's words and story your own was exactly was I was doing on stage.
Alan King
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Too afraid of plagiarising someone, so I stopped reading fiction in 1981.


Robert Rankin
You spend all this time reading or thinking or praying or searching or exploring.Maybe there's an Omega Point of love.
Sturgill Simpson
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I needed my own territory, and I didn't know how I was going to get it. And so I took my frustrations and plugged them into someone entirely different from me. I wanted to see if I could slip into someone else's skin.
Jane Hamilton
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