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My mother doesn't need much sleep. At any hour of the night, you'd wake up, and she'd be reading. She'd read five, six books a week. When we went on sailing trips, she'd bring a suitcaseful for the week. Even then, her office would have to send more.
David Grann
You
Mother
Wake Up
Reading
Books
Would
Trips
More
Week
Hour
She
Read
Sailing
Wake
Up
Five
Office
Send
Any
Six
Then
Much
Even
Her
Bring
Night
Need
Sleep
Reading history, one rarely gets the feeling of the true nature of scientific development, in which the element of farce is as great as the element of triumph.
David Gross
Great
Nature
History
Feeling
Reading
Rarely
Triumph
True
Development
True Nature
Scientific
Gets
Which
Farce
Element
I used to read comics as a kid, and now I'm reading them for research. It's great fun. It's not bad homework.
David Harewood
Great
Reading
Research
Homework
Kid
Great Fun
Bad
Read
Comics
Them
Used
Fun
Now
In terms of the way people see me, it breaks down into two very clear and distinct groups: those who think they know me from reading the papers and those who really know me by reading my books.
David Icke
Me
People
Reading
Down
Think
Books
Way
Distinct
Those
Papers
See
Clear
Know
Terms
Very
Breaks
Really
Who
Groups
Two
As a Jew reading about Jesus, I thought, 'He's a pretty good guy.' It's the same conclusion Monty Python drew in 'Life of Brian' - if people actually live what he did, it would be a pretty good world. But Jesus and Christianity have a tenuous relationship at best.
David Javerbaum
Life
Best
Good
Relationship
People
World
Thought
Reading
Live
Christianity
Monty
Monty Python
Would
Would-Be
Pretty
Pretty Good
About
Drew
Guy
He
Python
Conclusion
Did
Same
Brian
Actually
Jesus
Good Guy
Jew
Reading for me will be a combination of books, magazines, Tumblr and just kind of the Web in general on the iPad.
David Karp
Me
Will
Reading
Books
Kind
Magazines
Web
General
Combination
iPad
Just
Tumblr
Just Kind
When you're reading a book, you're always looking for the natural place to stop. With a movie, you can't really have that sense of it coming momentarily to a halt; there's pressure to keep the momentum up.
David Nicholls
You
Natural
Book
Pressure
Looking
Reading
Sense
Always
Halt
Coming
Up
Stop
Movie
Place
Really
Momentarily
Momentum
Keep
Deprived of the opportunity to judge one another by the cars we drive, New Yorkers, thrown together daily on mass transit, form silent opinions based on our choices of subway reading. Just by glimpsing the cover staring back at us, we can reach the pinnacle of carnal desire or the depths of hatred. Soul mate or mortal enemy.
David Rakoff
Daily
Soul
Together
Judge
Enemy
Opportunity
Car
Hatred
Drive
Reading
Back
Our
Carnal
Silent
Thrown
Mortal
Mass
New
Reach
Another
Soul Mate
Mate
Opinions
Cover
Pinnacle
Just
Form
New Yorkers
Subway
Transit
Deprived
Us
Depths
Choices
Based
Staring
Desire
I grew up reading comic books, pulp books, mystery and science fiction and fantasy. I'm a geek; I make no pretensions otherwise. It's the stuff that I love writing about. I like creating worlds.
David S. Goyer
Love
Science
Writing
Reading
Worlds
Otherwise
Books
Geek
About
Mystery
Stuff
Like
Make
Science Fiction
Comic
Comic Books
Up
Fiction
Grew
Fantasy
Creating
Pulp
Reading Bukowski and Burroughs and Henry Miller doesn't necessarily mean that a kid is going to try to emulate their debauchery to the point that Nic did, but he really was fascinated by it.
David Sheff
Try
Reading
Kid
Point
He
Emulate
Did
Going
Mean
Really
Nic
Fascinated
Henry
Miller
Necessarily
One of my clearest, happiest memories is of myself at fourteen, sitting up in bed, being handed a large glass of warm buttermilk by my mother because I had a sore throat, and she saying how envious she was that I was reading 'The Catcher in the Rye' for the first time.
David Shields
Saying
Time
Myself
Memories
Mother
First
Reading
Throat
Had
Envious
Glass
Catcher
Catcher In The Rye
Clearest
Sore
She
Because
First Time
Bed
How
Handed
Up
Sitting
Being
Happiest
Warm
Large
Fourteen
For those whose exclusive norm of constitutional judging is merely fair reading of language applied to facts objectively viewed, 'Brown' must either be flat-out wrong or a very mystifying decision.
David Souter
Decision
Language
Reading
Those
Must
Constitutional
Brown
Objectively
Facts
Wrong
Merely
Exclusive
Fair
Judging
Norm
Very
Either
Viewed
Whose
Applied
When you first read a script is the purest moment. That's when you can understand how an audience will ultimately receive it. The first reading of the script is so important because you're experiencing it all for the first time, and it's then that you really know if it's going to work or not.
David Tennant
Work
Time
You
Will
First
Important
Reading
Purest
Know
Read
Because
First Time
Understand
Audience
How
Ultimately
Going
Experiencing
Script
Then
Really
Moment
Receive
It wasn't a good idea to work on 'Naked' in the first months of a marriage. I was living apart from my wife in a flat overflowing with books I was reading for the part.
David Thewlis
Work
Good
Marriage
Wife
First
Naked
Reading
Living
Books
Months
Part
Idea
Overflowing
Flat
Apart
Good Idea
Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.
David Viscott
Life
Reading
Entertaining
Proper
Diversion
Empty
None
Up
Authors
Spaces
Useful
Fill
I have a sweet tooth for reading, so books migrate to my zip code en mass.
Dawn Olivieri
Reading
Sweet
Tooth
Books
Mass
Migrate
Sweet Tooth
Code
Zip
When it comes to writers, I'm a huge fan of Ian McEwan. I've never taken a writing course, but reading and deconstructing his novels has been as good a lesson as any.
Deborah Copaken Kogan
Good
Writing
Reading
Lesson
Has-Been
Writers
Never
Taken
Course
Been
His
Huge
Huge Fan
Any
Fan
Novels
A lot of our assumptions of the world are fairly cynical, fairly negative, and assume the worst. What our reading tastes show - in this rush to fantasy, romance, whatever - is that we actually still want to believe in a world of possibility, in a world of mystery.
Deborah Harkness
World
Negative
Reading
Whatever
Cynical
Believe
Assume
Assumptions
Our
Worst
Possibility
Rush
Mystery
Fairly
Still
Lot
Tastes
Romance
Want
Fantasy
Show
Actually
I realised that today we are very much interested in reading about subjects that would have also interested people in the 1500s: ghosts, demons and things that go bump in the night.
Deborah Harkness
Today
People
Reading
Ghosts
Would
About
Also
Demons
Go
Subjects
Bump
Very
Realised
Interested
Much
Things
Night
My most fertile reading time is when I have just finished a project and haven't started another. I binge-read and surf around bookstores.
Deborah Harkness
Time
Finished
Reading
Project
Bookstores
Most
Another
Around
Surf
Fertile
Just
Started
Festivals are where I see other peoples' films, where we talk, where I get to learn what was working about the film, I get to have a discussion with viewers... and people who enjoy reading films - I enjoy reading other peoples' films, and what discussions can come of that.
Debra Granik
People
Reading
Enjoy
Films
Other
See
About
Come
Talk
Learn
Festivals
Discussion
Discussions
Get
Where
Working
Viewers
Who
Film
Enjoy Reading
Court TV. I can't stop watching it. I am absolutely obsessed! If I'm not reading a book or spending time with my husband, my friends or my dog, I am watching Court TV.
Debra Messing
Time
Book
Dog
Husband
Reading
Spending
Spending Time
TV
Absolutely
Obsessed
Court
Am
Friends
Stop
Watching
I had a very insightful friend who warned me back when I stopped reading scripts, 'It's easier to change directions while you're still moving.' If you stop, it's harder to get started again. I still don't think I made the wrong decision, but he was right.
Debra Winger
Me
You
Change
Decision
Made
Reading
Think
Back
Easier
Insightful
Directions
Had
He
Wrong
Wrong Decision
Still
Friend
Very
Get
Stop
Stopped
While
Again
Scripts
Moving
Warned
Who
Harder
Right
Started
As I'm growing up, going into holding midfield, I'm watching Busquets quite a lot for Barcelona. The way he controls the game, his reading of it, technically, defensively - everything about him cuts him out above the rest. I'm really enjoying watching him.
Declan Rice
Game
Technically
Rest
Reading
Holding
Defensively
Everything
Way
Out
About
Above
He
Him
His
Lot
Up
Going
Quite
Controls
Quite A Lot
Midfield
Cuts
Barcelona
Really
Growing
Growing Up
Enjoying
Watching
You know how most kids have posters of sports heroes on their walls? They gave me reams of the old news copy, and I had those taped in my bedroom. And I would practice reading the news.
Delilah
News
Me
You
Sports
Walls
Old
Heroes
Practice
Reading
Gave
Those
Kids
Would
Posters
Had
Know
Most
How
Bedroom
Copy
I hate it when I'm reading a comic, and the dialogue looks like stickers stuck on top to explain what's going on. For me the best is when your eye goes in a certain point and moves through the composition and then springs out on the dialogue, or gets confused in the image and then goes to the dialogue for an explanation.
Denise Mina
Best
Me
Hate
Confused
Reading
Top
Eye
Out
Composition
Point
Through
Stuck
Like
Looks
Comic
Dialogue
Springs
Goes
Gets
Going
Moves
Explain
Explanation
Then
Certain
Your
Certain Point
Image
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