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What's an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows, he doesn't know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn't admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn't really know how much.
Malcolm Forbes
'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.
Mark Twain
How well he's read, to reason against reading!
William Shakespeare
When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.
Dorothy Allison
The media is too concentrated, too few people own too much. There's really five companies that control 90 percent of what we read, see and hear. It's not healthy.
Ted Turner
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Nearly everyone I met, worked with, or read about was my teacher, one way or another.
Loretta Young 
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People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I'll give you an example; I don't read what's handed to me. People say, 'Here, here's your speech, or here's an idea for a speech.' They're changed. Trust me.
George W. Bush 
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Ellis Peters's historical detail is very accurate and very minute, and therefore is not only interesting to read but good for an actor to acquire a sense of the period. And the other thing I think is that an actor lives in the land of imagination.
Derek Jacobi 
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The day of the great jazz improviser who doesn't know how to read music is over.
Maynard Ferguson 
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The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
Jackie Collins 
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There are people who must spend huge amounts of time composing these online diatribes against me, all about how disgusting and terrible I am and how no one should ever read my books, and it's not enough for them to hate me, they can't stand the fact that ANYONE likes me!
Poppy Z. Brite 
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But I read comic books. I read things like Richie Rich and Little Lulu.
Alison Bechdel 
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My ideal day would be to get a good work out in, listen to music, talk to my family and friends on the phone, read and go to a good movie.
Steve Nash 
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Many peoples' tombstones should read 'Died at 30, burried at 60.'
Nicholas M. Butler 
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