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I remember I read this harsh review about my show, and one of my friends told me that this was the exact same stuff people said about Madonna. And it's like, she didn't care. Madonna just came out and was herself. I respect that a lot.

I think people have a tendency to read into more than there is.

Let me read you some of my poetry. My poetry just takes me to another level.

The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.

I don't read reviews because if they're bad I'm devastated and if they're good I get a big head.

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

I read 'Time', 'Newsweek' and 'The Economist'.

At first, it was hard to sit down and read the things that people were saying. A lot of people would've worked their way up to this position and would've gotten a thick skin over a few years' time. For me, though, all this happened in a few months.

I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.

When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as "Catch-22" I'm tempted to reply, "Who has?"

Read a ton. Take a workshop course so you learn to give and get criticism.

I didn't look at any of the newspapers, I look at the pictures sometimes, but apart from that I don't read them.

There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them.

It is preposterous that the current members of the United States Senate and all of their predecessors for more than 200 years haven't been able to read the Constitution and do what it says.

You can read a dozen different textbooks or how-to manuals that will tell you the basic rules of what makes a story - a beginning, a middle, and an end.

Sometimes, when you see the newspaper and you read something I said, you say, 'Oh, I can't believe he said that.'

My writing improved the more I wrote - and the more I read good writing, from Shakespeare on down.

I loved to read, and I think any child who loves to read will read anything, including the back of the cereal box, which I did every morning.

I must be honest. I can only read so many paragraphs of a New York Times story before I puke.

On a single day, I read articles where I was described as being alternately 'lanky,' 'pudgy,' 'doughy,' 'balding,' 'utterly forgettable,' and 'constantly irritating.'

I read books more than I go out. As a matter of fact, I get a little concerned about some of my anti-social habits. I will choose a night with Somerset Maugham or Russell Banks over a crowded bar any day.

I never read the tabloids.

A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer.

I was a pretentious child. I grew up without a television. I read a lot of books and I loved Shakespeare. Still do.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

Why would anyone want to read what I have to say?

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

I'm very perverse. If someone tells me I have to read a book, I'm instantly disinclined to do so.

No, I've never wanted kids. But I do read about parenting a lot.

A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.