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reading script
I've been reading script after script after script, Jesse McCartney
reading since
I've been collecting, reading 'Peanuts' since I was five, James Sturm
reading differences people
Novels aren’t just happy escapes; they are slivers of people’s souls, nailed to the pages, dripping ink from veins of wood pulp. Reading the right one at the right time can make all the difference. Brandon Sanderson
reading airplane seeing
Seeing someone reading something I wrote on an airplane - things like that are pretty awesome. Ben Mezrich
reading book writing
I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written. Barbara Kingsolver
reading focus solitude
Reading takes solitude and it takes focus. Augusten Burroughs
reading reality order
We do not read in order to turn great works of fiction into simplistic replicas of our own realities, we read for the pure, sensual, and unadulterated pleasure of reading. And if we do so, our reward is the discovery of the many hidden layers within these works that do not merely reflect reality but reveal a spectrum of truths, thus intrinsically going against the grain of totalitarian mindsets. Azar Nafisi
reading people library
Is it advisable to spread out all the conveniences of culture before people to whom a few steps up a stair to a library is a sufficient deterrent from reading? Ayn Rand
reading years eight
Eight years ago, I was drawn into Keats's world by Andrew Motion's biography. Soon I was reading back and forth between Keats's letters and his poems. The letters were fresh, intimate and irreverent, as though he were present and speaking. The Keats spell went very deep for me. Jane Campion
small-numbers years common-sense
I am troubled by the lack of common sense regarding carbon dioxide emissions. Our greatest greenhouse gas is water. Atmospheric spectroscopy reveals why water has a 95 percent and CO2 a 3.6 percent contribution to the 'greenhouse effect.' Carbon dioxide emissions worldwide each year total 3.2 billion tons. That equals about 0.0168 percent of the atmosphere's CO2 concentration of about 19 trillion tons. This results in a 0.00064 percent increase in the absorption of the sun's radiation. This is an insignificantly small number. Michael Myers
small-numbers ideas variation
An aria in an opera - Handel's 'Ombra mai fu,' for example - gets along with an incredibly small number of words and ideas and a large amount of variation and repetition. That's the beauty of it. It's not taxing to the listener's intelligence because if you haven't heard it the first time round, it'll come around again. James Fenton
small-numbers years different
What does gene A do? What does gene B do? What does it do in different contexts? What's its importance? We know the answer to that for a very small number of genes, the ones that made themselves evident many years ago. David Baltimore
people prices scottish-writer stayed
Prices have stayed up because people in control of supply decided they could keep them up. John Wilson
people prior united
Prior to the United Nations even being formed, Palestine was a country. But the right of the Palestinian people were trampled, and unfortunately, international organizations contributed to those rights being trampled. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
people sent
People who have sent their delegates here want real progress, ... That's why here in Montreal, we have to get results. Stephane Dion
people vote
People who feel that things are going well will vote for Juan.
people
People who don't know me look at my world as something very hard-core, and I don't feel it that way. It's not what attracts me. Raf Simons
people
People used to look out for their brothers. I'm going to look out for James. Bobbi Brown
people sticking understand
People understand we're not deviating from our plan. We're sticking to it.
people robust role strong suggesting understand
People understand it's a robust role and they're comfortable with it. But we're not suggesting it (support for the mission) is so strong it can't be moved.
people unreliable
People treat citizens like they're some kind of unreliable source, but citizens are data. They are a data set. Josh Fox