Reading Quotes - Page 34

• It's very intuitive, the way that I approach my work. I only buy something that has a pulse. I may not know how I'm going to use it, but I know it has a pulse and it has multiple readings - if I shift it one way or another, it can be read this way or it can be read that way, but both readings are critical and very much ground the work.

  Nick Cave

  Pulse, Use, May

  "Nick Cave’s Object Permanence" by Alexandria Symonds, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 19, 2014.

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• I'm not a good reader. I had to take remedial reading in school. I was a slow reader and therefore it's tough for me to stay interested in things long enough, I've read, probably, since college maybe 10 books, which is disgusting.

  Bruce Dern

  Book, School, College

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I would not like to direct, I would be one of those terrible directors who can't help line reading the actors their lines, because I would just want to be doing their parts.

  Ruby Bentall

  Directors, Would Be, Actors

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Things maybe take longer usually when it comes to TV - especially network TV. There are usually multiple levels that you have to go through in terms of the casting director, the producers, the studio, the network, reading with other people.

  Andre Holland

  People, Directors, Levels

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I wish I had time to do more reading, but I just haven't had much time. But I still find time for writing. I've always preferred writing over reading, even though those things do go hand in hand. But when I do have time, even if it's not writing music, just writing in general - ideas and stories and things like that.

  Youth Lagoon

  Writing, Hands, Ideas

  "Youth Lagoon: Out Of The House, Into The Bughouse". Interview with Alexandria Symonds, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 5, 2013.

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• I barely read. I'm not a good reader at all. Rather than reading, I used to sit in front of the TV and watch black-and-white cowboy movies. I'm a painfully slow reader. It's really bad as an actor, because you have to read a lot of scripts. It takes me like an average of three hours to read a script, which is pretty poor.

  Will Poulter

  Black And White, Cowboy, Average

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The best scripts I read are usually pretty - they move really quickly, there's not a lot of exposition in between all of what's happening, so you can really just flow with the lines, and you're reading and it has a momentum and you understand it emotionally.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Moving, Momentum, Lines

  "Melancholia and the Inimitable, Skyping Kirsten Dunst". Interview with Craig Hubert, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 11, 2011.

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• I wish I was making shoes instead of reading or watching movies, which is what I do in my free time.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Shoes, Wish, Free Time

  Interview with Tim Blanks, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• I wanted to be a poet. I had a really romantic idea about what that would mean. My parents knew some poets, and I liked how they dressed and acted, but I didn't really acknowledge that I only liked reading some bits of poetry while I was peeing or something.

  Lena Dunham

  Mean, Ideas, Parent

  Interview with Claire Danes, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 1, 2012.

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• I was a Shakespearean actor, I had preconceived ideas, line readings - everything was a gesture, everything was conscious.

  Dennis Hopper

  Ideas, Actors, Lines

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• To travel best requires some time preparing for your visit to a particular location - that you don't travel anywhere without spending a few nights reading about the culture and history of the place you are visiting. This is what most of us don't do - we fling ourselves on an exotic destination hoping that someone will tell us what we are looking at, but by that time it's too late, and all the lectures and tour guides simply add to our confusion.

  Arthur Frommer

  Night, Confusion, Add

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• Being a writer is a solitary life. So the little part of me that's an actor still enjoys the theatrical part of reading and doing the voices and telling the story.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Solitary Life, Voice, Stories

  Interview with Juliette Lewis, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 24, 2011.

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• If you take text and image and you put them together, the multiple readings that are possible in either poetry or in something visual are reduced to one specific reading. By putting the two together, you limit the possibilities. Text and image don't always work together in the way music and song lyrics become part of each other.

  Richard Hell

  Song, Two, Working Together

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What I read: while I'm writing, I tend to go off reading fiction for relaxation - especially the challenging stuff. It's too much like the day job.

  Charles Stross

  Jobs, Writing, Challenges

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• I wanted an agent who would actually sell stuff. After two British agents failed comprehensively, I was reading Locus (the SF field's trade journal) and noticed a press release about an experienced editor leaving her job to join an agent in setting up a new agency. And I went "aha!" - because what you need is an agent who knows the industry but who doesn't have a huge list of famous clients whose needs will inevitably be put ahead of you. So I emailed her, and ... well, 11 years later I am the client listed at the top of her masthead!

  Charles Stross

  Jobs, Editors, Two

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 2, 2012.

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• Speech recognition is utterly crap for writing fiction. If you try reading a novel aloud you'll soon figure out why - written prose style is utterly unlike the spoken word.

  Charles Stross

  Writing, Style, Trying

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 02, 2012.

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• While writing a novel I almost completely stop reading books in the same sub-genre for the duration.

  Charles Stross

  Book, Writing, Duration

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• Well, I'm very much a literary person. And my fashion always tells a story somehow. I never look at fashion magazines. I find them incredibly boring. To me, reading a fashion magazine is the last thing I need to do. I've got books I need to read.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Fashion, Book, Stories

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was not a vampire or werewolf fan at all. I'd never even heard of the series. I auditioned for the role, and as soon as I got it, I started reading the books. I'm not a reader, but I really did get hooked on them.

  Taylor Lautner

  Book, Vampire, Roles

  Interview with Michael Martin, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 6, 2009.

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• When I'm reading for my own pleasure, I read things other than history or archival material. I read a lot of fiction. I'm very fond of mysteries.

  David McCullough

  Fiction, Mystery, Pleasure

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• Reading has made such a profound difference to my life. I'm sure I became a writer because of the power of literature in my own life.

  Katherine Paterson

  Differences, Profound, Literature

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• Teachers have almost stopped reading aloud to their classes because of the pressure of testing and tight curricula, but it is the books we read together and talk about together that bring us closer together.

  Katherine Paterson

  Teacher, Book, Class

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• I communicate much better with cats, usually. I know them and their body language - as my own cats know mine very well. Cats are adept at reading subtle signals.

  Marge Piercy

  Cat, Body, Language

  Source: margepiercy.com

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• The art of fiction is one of constant seduction. You must persuade the reader on page 1 to start reading - on page 50, or page 150 and yes, on page 850.

  Marge Piercy

  Art, Fiction, Pages

  Interview with Charlotte Templin, margepiercy.com. May 2004.

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• In the old days people had far fewer channels in which to place their imaginative time. There's definitely more competition for time . . . and yet people seem to be reading [books] as much.

  Douglas Coupland

  Book, People, Competition

  Source: feathertale.com

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