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My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant.


June Jordan
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My father assigned me to keep his scrapbooks. At first I was interested in reading only his rave notices, but I got interested in reading what the critics were saying about whether the play was good or not.
Dorothy Fields
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Accolades and lists may tell us about accomplishments, but life is meant to be experienced, not just accomplished. It's like the difference between reading books for the sake of reading and reading books just to get a good grade.
LZ Granderson
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I love music, and I once thought about doing a choral scholarship, but the people put me off.


Rory Kinnear
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So he said 'I'm going to chop off the bottom of one of your trouser legs and put it in a library.' I thought 'That's a turn-up for the books.'
Tommy Cooper
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Carrying those double tanks around all the time got to be a little rough on me. I had to put that damn wetsuit on and take it off, sometimes three or four times a day.
Lloyd Bridges
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I grew up reading comic books. Super hero comic books, Archie comic books, horror comic books, you name it.
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
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Let me tell you about the nap. It's absolutely fantastic. When I was a kid, my father was always trying to tell me how to be a man. And he said - I was maybe nine - he said, 'Philip, whenever you take a nap, take your clothes off and put a blanket over you, and you're going to sleep better.' Well, as with everything, he was right.
Philip Roth
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I'm always in search of those books where you don't want to stop reading, and 'Me Before You' is at the top of that list.
Lauren Weisberger
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You can always say that it was scarce dollars when Lewis and Clark wanted to go to the West Coast and explore the West. And people complained about it, I understand, from a reading of the history books.
John Glenn
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I'm constantly reading books on God or the absence of God and atheism.


Liam Neeson
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Everything my mother and father did was designed to put me where I am.


Henry Louis Gates
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Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.


Mark Haddon
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No adult in my family would ever tell me anything about who my father was. I knew from an older cousin - only four years older than I am - everything, or what little I could discover about him.
John Irving
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I can't consciously explain how people feel after reading my books. All is too personal.


Paulo Coelho
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The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.


Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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I like cups of tea and reading books and poetry and old people things.


Bindi Irwin
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I don't want little kids reading my comics.


Jhonen Vasquez
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There is a certain danger in thinking about diversity in its own little box, as something that is somehow separate from 'normal' comic books and comics creators.
G. Willow Wilson
Put Mickelson and Toms out there. You know, they had the morning off. They rested. Knowing them and the competitors that they are, they are probably a little angry that they weren't out there in the morning.
Hal Sutton
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