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I read a lot, but in comparison to my family, it's nothing. I keep telling them, 'I'm the illiterate of the family.' My grandfather used to read five books at a time.
Aditi Rao Hydari
Time
Family
Nothing
Books
Telling
Read
Lot
Five
Them
Grandfather
Used
Illiterate
Keep
Comparison
Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.
Adlai Stevenson I
Man
Strange
Animal
Back
Generally
He
Until
Read
His
Up
Wall
Handwriting
Cannot
Against
Notwithstanding my present incompetency, I am beginning to translate the New Testament, being extremely anxious to get some parts of Scripture, at least, into an intelligible shape, if for no other purpose than to read, as occasion offers, to the Burmans I meet with.
Adoniram Judson
Beginning
Other
Meet
Extremely
Some
Purpose
Shape
New
Occasion
Read
Parts
Am
Least
Testament
Than
Offers
Intelligible
Get
New Testament
Anxious
Being
Scripture
Translate
Notwithstanding
Present
I was thrilled to be able to read at three. I just thought everyone loved reading as much as I did.
Adora Svitak
Thought
Three
Reading
Everyone
Able
Thrilled
Read
Did
Just
Loved
Much
The idea there were kids out there who didn't love to read and write just as much as I did struck me. So I went around schools and tried to make other kids love to read and write.
Adora Svitak
Love
Me
Other
Other Kids
Kids
Out
Tried
Struck
Write
Idea
Schools
Make
Read
Around
Were
Did
Just
Just As Much
Much
Who
The first proper mystery novel that I read was 'Murder On the Orient Express' with a gaunt David Niven and a cherubic Peter Ustinov on the cover. 'Orient Express,' you'll recall, is the one where everyone did it, which delighted me no end, and I was immediately hooked.
Adrian McKinty
Me
You
First
Everyone
Immediately
Hooked
Proper
Delighted
Mystery
David
Read
Cover
End
Did
Where
Which
Orient
Peter
Novel
Express
Recall
Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative.
Adrian Mitchell
Best
First
See
More
Poetry
Written
Performance
Read
Provocative
Different
Then
Thing
'Peanuts' is a life-long influence, going back to before I could even read.
Adrian Tomine
Before
Back
Life-Long
Could
Read
Going
Influence
Even
Peanuts
I like to go to the movies or read.
Adriana Lima
Like
Read
Go
Movies
Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
Agnes Smedley
Imagination
Russia
Only
Read
Much
Desire
When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination.
Ahmet Zappa
Book
Imagination
Would
Had
No-One
Pick
Make
Read
Got
Praised
Up
Reports
Just
Turn
I do what I can, but I'll always give it a shot. You're not going to see me playing a Welsh character any time soon, not because I wouldn't love to. I went up to Wales once and read for a film with Rhys Ifans, and haven't been asked back since. We did have a nice time on the train on the way back.
Aidan Gillen
Love
Time
Character
Me
You
Nice
Back
Once
Way
See
Give
Soon
Since
Read
Because
Always
Welsh
Been
Up
Wales
Train
Did
Any
Going
Asked
Shot
Film
Playing
Some actors actually think about what they're going to talk about during the interview - they read up and meditate and plan quotes and get all inspired. It's very smart, but it's so planned. I never think to do that.
Aidan Quinn
Smart
Think
Interview
Some
About
Inspired
Never
Talk
Read
Up
Very
Get
Going
Quotes
Plan
Planned
Actor
Actually
Meditate
I don't speculate too much about the future. That's the thing about this job - it's so fickle. You take the jobs, you read the scripts and, if something interests you and you like the people who are working on it, you go for it.
Aidan Turner
Future
You
People
Too Much
Job
Fickle
Too
Jobs
About
Something
Take
Like
Read
Go
Go For It
Scripts
Much
Interests
Working
Who
Thing
Speculate
I did not grow up thinking that I wanted to be an engineer. I had read some articles about girls becoming increasingly scientifically illiterate and that girls lacked confidence in their capabilities when it came to quantitative skills. And I just thought that was kind of wrong.
Aileen Lee
Confidence
Engineer
Thought
Girl
Thinking
Increasingly
Kind
Some
About
Had
Wrong
Read
Quantitative
Becoming
Scientifically
Came
Up
Articles
Did
Just
Wanted
Capabilities
Skills
Illiterate
Grow
Grow Up
When you read Chekhov, everything has an even gray tone. When you read 'Family Life', everything has an even white tone. It is almost like when you paint on paper, and you can see the paper through the paint.
Akhil Sharma
Life
Family
You
White
Everything
Paper
See
Through
Almost
Like
Read
Chekhov
Family Life
Paint
Even
Tone
Gray
I grew up in a very religious family. I could read the Qu'ran easily at the age of five.
Akhmad Kadyrov
Family
Age
Easily
Religious
Could
Read
Up
Very
Five
Grew
My work is being destroyed almost as soon as it is printed. One day it is being read; the next day someone's wrapping fish in it.
Al Capp
Work
Day
One Day
Destroyed
Wrapping
Someone
Almost
Soon
Read
Printed
Fish
Being
Next
I've never seen the Osbournes, I've never seen Paris Hilton. I'd rather read than watch reality TV. I'd rather live life than watch somebody else living it.
Al Jourgensen
Life
Reality
Live Life
Somebody
Seen
Live
Living
Else
TV
Rather
Paris
Paris Hilton
Never
Hilton
Read
Than
Reality TV
Watch
Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions. And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
Al Pacino
You
Mind
First
Few
Stage
Back
Later
Francis
Directions
Days
Like
Read
Sort
Ford
Narrator
Go
Tape
Did
Listen
Movie
Cut
Then
Your
Show
Radio
Rough
Film
Coppola
Early
Plays
I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy.
Al Sharpton
Love
People
Philosophy
Kinds
Rarely
Some
About
Read
Very
Any
Fiction
Theology
Biographies
I find myself more and more behind these days. You have to be really diligent. I don't have kids, which helps. I'm always working on something, whether a book, or a law review article that no one will ever read, or teaching. It pretty much means I work a lot, but it's all stuff I love.
Alafair Burke
Work
Love
Myself
You
Book
Law
Will
Diligent
Kids
Find
Pretty
Something
More
More And More
No-One
Stuff
Days
Read
Always
Review
Lot
Article
Behind
Whether
Which
Much
Really
Working
Means
Teaching
Helps
Ever
When I am at a dinner table, I love to ask everybody, 'How long do you think our species might last?' I've read that the average age of a species, of any species, is about two million years. Is it possible we can have an average life span as a species? And do you picture us two million years more or a million and a half years, or 5,000?
Alan Alda
Life
Love
You
Age
Dinner
Long
Picture
Half
Think
Everybody
Our
Possible
Dinner Table
Table
About
More
Life Span
Half Years
Read
How
Am
Years
Any
Span
Might
Average
Ask
Us
Species
Million
Million Years
Last
Two
I used to read science fiction a lot, and I still like science fiction when it is a model of how we really are and to see ourselves from another perspective.
Alan Alda
Science
Perspective
Ourselves
See
Like
Read
Another
Science Fiction
How
Still
Lot
Model
Fiction
Really
Used
I read science, because to me, that's extremely exciting. It's like a great detective story, and it's happening right in front of us.
Alan Alda
Great
Me
Science
Extremely
Detective
Detective Story
Exciting
Like
Read
Because
Front
Happening
Story
Us
Right
When I go home, the last thing I want to do is read about the popular lore of vampires.
Alan Ball
Home
Vampires
About
Read
Lore
Go
Go Home
Want
Popular
Thing
Last
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