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reading practice scripts
I practice reading all the time. I read everything and having so many scripts to read, which really helps out as well. Bella Thorne
reading writing thinking
Close reading of tough-minded writing is still the best, cheapest, and quickest method known for learning to think for yourself... Reading, and rigorous discussion of that reading in a way that obliges you to formulate a position and support it against objections, is an operational definition of education... reading, analysis, and discussion is the way we develop reliable judgment, the principle way we come to penetrate covert movements behind the facade of public appearances. John Taylor Gatto
reading writing different
Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act. Margaret Mahy
reading soul rendezvous
Reading is a rendezvous with your soul. Jeanette Winterson
reading writing trying
Writing is a way of life. I do it because it's a way of experiencing the world, and trying to come to terms with it and understand it and express it and engage with it. And to me it's a natural extension of reading. Emily Perkins
reading heart artist
Context is everything. Dress me up and see. I'm a carnival barker, an auctioneer, a downtown performance artist, a speaker in tongues, a senator drunk on filibuster. I've got Tourette's. My mouth won't quit, though mostly I whisper or subvocalize like I'm reading aloud, my Adam's apple bobbing, jaw muscle beating like a miniature heart under my cheek, the noise suppressed, the words escaping silently, mere ghosts of themselves, husks of empty breath and tone. Jonathan Lethem
reading boring
Oh my god... Kerry is boring even when Bush is reading him. Jon Stewart
reading secret underdog
The fact that fairy tales remain a literary underdog-undervalued and undermined-even as they shape so many popular stories, redoubles my certainty that it is time for contemporary fairy tales to be celebrated in a popular, literary collection. Fairy tales hold the secret to reading. Kate Bernheimer
reading reading-novels novel
Sylvie’s knowledge, like Izzie's, was random yet far-ranging, ‘The sign that one has acquired one’s learning from reading novels rather than an education… Kate Atkinson
writing needs gypsy
I need to keep traveling, being a gypsy, having experiences and writing about them. Delta Goodrem
writing publish
Write the unpublishable.. .and then publish it. Denis Johnson
writing challenges paper
Writing is very difficult. You have 120 pages of blank paper and it's like, "Go fill that up with some funny stuff," and that's challenging. Bobby Farrelly
writing best-person persons
The best person to write for is yourself—and what better place to start than in a journal. E. L. James
writing korea achievement
The Puerto Ricans forming the ranks of the gallant 65th Infantry on the battlefields of Korea … are writing a brilliant record of achievement in battle and I am proud indeed to have them in this command. I wish that we might have many more like them. Douglas MacArthur
writing kissing letters
The Germans and Austrians are very polite, the Swiss are very reserved and the Spanish usually kiss me. The Brits write me letters. Donna Leon
writing thinking demand
I know you shouldn't spit in your own soup but I think most crime writing is like TV and doesn't make enormous demands on one's intellect.
writing editors journalist
With the possible exception of God during the writing of the Bible, every writer in history has needed an editor. So do you. Donald Davis
writing chess pages
Seem to be telling this, but really telling that. Three-dimensional writing, like three-dimensional chess. Nabokov was the other master of that. You could learn something from Nabokov on every page he ever wrote. Donald E. Westlake
trying quality pieces
A bad investment is going for quantity over quality. If you're trying to be careful with your wallet, especially with the economy right now, you have to choose staple pieces. Christian Siriano
trying world levels
We are caught in a trap, a cycle, in which we keep trying to solve the world's problems at every level - except the level at which the problems exist. Neale Donald Walsch
trying progress work-in-progress
I'm a work in progress. I'm trying to be better. Nate Parker
trying humans
Are you trying to be as human as you can be? Morrie Schwartz
trying fuel saving
Nobody is trying to save energy. We're trying to shift our use of fuel. Forget saving energy; if we get the right kind of energy, there are endless amounts. Morgan Freeman
trying actors diligent
I try to be a good, diligent actor. Moon Bloodgood
trying ghost danger
He was trying to tell me something.' Derek snorted. 'Aren’t they all? Must be a rule in the ghost handbook—if in danger of evaporating, make sure you’re in the middle of a dire pronouncement. Kelley Armstrong
trying matter hard
There are some things you can't unsee, and there are some movies you can't get off IMDB no matter how hard you try. Kurt Fuller
trying way entertainment
I've never felt like - part of the entertainment industry. I still just feel like I'm trying to work my way in. And that's weird.