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I'm very comfortable with myself and my sexuality, but it doesn't define me. I also read books believe it or not.

Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true.

If you really hate George Bush, you don't want to read about his hobbies or that he's nice to his friends or that he's good company at dinner.

You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong.

The green-light meeting, when I first started at Paramount, would consist of maybe three or four of us in a room. Perhaps two or three of us would have read the script under discussion.

In high school, I discovered myself. I was interested in race relations and the legal profession. I read about Lincoln and that he believed the law to be the most difficult of professions.

When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life.

We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible.

I think I remember from the offset I said, 'I've visited this territory. This isn't for me.' And then I read the script and I said, 'You know, this is completely something different. This is a whole new life.'

I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.

I recently read some of the transcripts of Nixon's Watergate tapes, and they spent hours trying to figure out who was leaking and providing information to Carl and myself.

I started off like everyone else does, slogging but having a compulsion to put words on paper. I didn't write or read horror or fantasy, other than children's fantasy, until I was in my teens.

What's an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows, he doesn't know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn't admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn't really know how much.

So it was just funny to read a script that was just similar to what had been going on in my life.

I was encouraged to read aloud in class and vocalize.

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

My background is somewhat unusual, as I trained to be a ballet dancer. I worked in the theatre for eight or nine years as a contemporary dancer. But as an actor one does read Shakespeare and does try to learn the classics.

I think it's so important to feed your brain you know. Sometimes you've just got to read.

Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel.

What's funny about that is when I was writing Twilight just for myself and not thinking of it as a book, I was not thinking about publishing, and yet at the same time I was casting it in my head. Because when I read books, I see them very visually.

Script for an actor is like a bible. You carry it with you, you read it over and over, you go to your passages.

I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about.

Sometimes I have given my husband a manuscript to read that has turned out to have fantastic rave reviews and he'll tell me it is no good. Well, if I didn't know him as well as I know him I would be terribly depressed.

I sort of try to read the books when they come out impartially and not make up my mind, but the fact is when I was reading the sixth, 'Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince', there were bits in there where I was going, 'God, I would love to do that because it's so good'.

I don't usually read reviews.

I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I've read has taught me something.

I read to my kid, but I can't stand reading.

But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me.