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Those of you who can read I must beg you to read the Bible, and whenever you can get time, study the Bible, and if you can get no other time, spare some of your time from sleep, and learn what the mind and will of God is.
~ Jupiter Hammon
In order to have a charismatic leader, you have to have a charismatic program. Because if you have a charismatic program, then if you can read you can lead. When the leader gets killed while you're reading from page 13 of your charismatic program, you can bury the man with honors, then continue the plan by reading from page 14. Let's keep on.
~ John Henrik Clarke
I think the trouble with artists or chefs who whine about criticism is that if you love the good reviews, you have to at least read the bad ones.
~ Jim Harrison
In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
~ Ezra Pound
For some reason when I write in cursive, it's easier and flows better for me to read that when I print.
~ Ashley Scott
I would only read the novels that people classify as 'beach books' if I were being held prisoner and the only alternative was the 'Book of Mormon.'
~ Tom Robbins
It's funny, because '1600 Penn' was the first time I really started to read the reviews, because I am an executive producer and I wanted to see what people were enjoying and not enjoying as a means to an end, right?
~ Josh Gad
A producer friend of mine from film school had read some of my early screenplays - some experiments I had done to see how fast I could write something.
~ Nick Castle
There's editing, and scripts to read and edit, and casting, and all the elements of production that just sort of take up the normal downtime that you would have as an actor. So there's not a lot of that for me.
~ Richard Dean Anderson
The more I read about the rules the great orators used, the more I realised, of course, this is how you stir people's hearts, and you persuade and cajole and move people out of fixed positions. The techniques are quite menacingly easy.
~ Anthony McCarten
Librarians as a race tend to be tedious.
~ Peter Shaffer
The market groups and demographics said, 'Teenage guys don't read magazines.'
~ Spike Jonze
I'm definitely very interested in doing female narrators that aren't typically feminine or emotional or soft - especially teenage girls - because I have such a hard time relating to so many of them that I read. They feel psychologically cuter to me than I ever was.
~ Andrea Seigel
I was such a lazy teenager: I didn't read or play the piano beyond the bare minimum.
~ Stephen Hough
Even though I've been an avid consumer of contemporary music since my early teens, the world of rock music has always been at something of a distance - I listen to it, read about it, I talk about it, but I've had little or no contact with its denizens.
~ William Boyd
I never wore glasses except when I had to read a teleprompter at an awards show or drive, so I didn't notice much. I could exist in my head. It was kind of my escape from the world and my protection.
~ Nicole Kidman
If you love the language, the greatest thing you can do to ensure its survival is not to complain about bad usage but to pass your enthusiasm to a child. Find a child and read to it often the things you admire, not being afraid to read the classics.
~ Robert MacNeil
Although he had read that Pittsburgh was becoming an in-demand moviemaking town.
~ Lee Child
Literary art's sudden, startling truth and beauty make us feel, in the most solitary part of us, that we are not alone, and that there are meanings that cannot be bought, sold or traded, that do not decay and die. This socially and economically worthless experience is called transcendence, and you cannot assign a paper, or a grade, or an academic rank, on that. Literature is too sacred to be taught. It needs only to be read.
~ Lee Siegel
I shall not importune him with any opinion of my own as to why I, at bottom a contemplative soul asking nothing better than to live in peace and to be able to read and to write, have been condemned to lead such a stormy existence so fraught with upheavals.
~ Lion Feuchtwanger
Pope Joan was an excellent read.
~ Donna Woolfolk Cross
That's in the actual patent. Really! You can find the patent and read it for yourself. All you have to do is Google its official USPTA number, which is US10144532B2.
~ Douglas E. Richards
We are not products of these platforms so much as the labor force. We dutifully read, click, post, and retweet; we become enraged, scandalized, and indignant; and we go on to complain, attack, or cancel. That's work. The beneficiaries are the shareholders.
~ Douglas Rushkoff
To read of human depravity in the police reports is one thing, to see it fall like a black shadow across one's life is another.
~ William John Locke