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Readings is to the mind what exercice is to the body. -- Richard Steele
Readings are more like weaving a tapestry. Possibly people are getting a cathartic release - but music is physical. Music pummels you. It's got a beat; it's loud. Whereas this is more cerebral. -- John Darnielle
To get overprotective about particular readings of the Bible is always in danger of idolatry. -- N. T. Wright
I've turned my guest house into this little studio, and we have actors come over and do readings. -- Jeff Goldblum
I worked probably 25 years by myself, just writing and working, not trying to publish much, not giving readings. -- Mary Oliver
I go to readings by fiction writers like Alice Walker, and I'm envious of the level of attention they generate. -- Derrick Bell
I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed. -- Umberto Eco
I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group. -- Leonard Cohen
It makes me believe in fate. In most cases, the readings where I've been really bad have usually been the ones where I got the part. -- Robin Wright
But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the media and the speed with which people travel the planet. -- Chaim Potok
If you actually do cold readings, it's very close to how people actually talk, because you're experiencing these thoughts anew every moment, and trying to make them come out coherently. -- Patton Oswalt
This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true. -- V. S. Naipaul
We met with the poet Frank O'Hara, who was a link between Upper and Lower Bohemia, and who worked at the Museum of Modern Art, where we had hoped to do the readings. -- David Amram
I have a publishing company of books by me and books of others. It drew people to poetry readings and photo exhibitions and painting exhibitions that I've been doing for years before that. -- Viggo Mortensen
Well, in The Chosen, Danny Saunders, from the heart of his religious reading of the world, encounters an element in the very heart of the secular readings of the world - Freudian psychoanalytic theory. -- Chaim Potok
They do not merely collect texts; they must also gather data about the context and the informant and, above all, write an analysis of the items based upon the course readings and lecture material on folklore theory and method. -- Alan Dundes
I get readings, I sometimes get five a week. You'll feel like a schizophrenic by the end of that week. I don't know who I am any more. You'll be in conversation with a friend and start spitting out dialogue. -- Josh Holloway
If, for example, all the codons are triplets, then in addition to the correct reading of the message, there are two incorrect readings which we shall obtain if we do not start the grouping into sets of three at the right place. -- Francis Crick
I don't like the word 'poetry,' and I don't like poetry readings, and I usually don't like poets. I would much prefer describing myself and what I do as: I'm kind of a curator, and I'm kind of a night-owl reporter. -- Tom Waits
I don't do as many readings as I used to. There was a time when I was on the road a lot more, at home in Ireland, in Britain, in Canada and the States, a time when I had more stamina and appetite for it. -- Seamus Heaney
I got to L.A., and they said I had to lose weight, let my hair grow and buy some dresses. I was nailing auditions with my readings, but they wouldn't hire me because I wasn't putting on the glam. It just didn't occur to me. -- Kim Cattrall
I was reading poetry to my girlfriends, and they were like, 'You're really good. You should go to some poetry readings or something.' And I eventually went and got a, you know, somewhat of a name for myself and a little bit of a following. -- Jill Scott
It's different in Scotland. People who come to readings are more interested in literature as such, but the readership in general is really quite diverse. It's a cliche, but it's said that people who read my books don't read any other books, and you do get that element. -- Irvine Welsh
Watching cold fusion is like watching water boil in slow motion. First, sufficient deuterium has to penetrate the palladium electrode. This can take a few weeks. Then, if excess heat is generated during the next month or two, accurate temperature readings require extreme precautions to exclude environmental effects. -- Charles Platt
Television and cable have become the new independent films, in a sense, for writers and actors to gravitate towards. That's why I like short films, too; I love doing readings, audio books, working with young filmmakers; anything that keeps you from getting blase about yourself or in a rut. -- Campbell Scott
Of course a poem is a two-way street. No poem is any good if it doesn't suggest to the reader things from his own mind and recollection that he will read into it, and will add to what the poet has suggested. But I do think poetry readings are very important. -- James Laughlin
The room-service Caesar salads with soggy croutons, the distant relatives who show up at readings pitching weird, far-fetched investment schemes, the fans who have you sign a book to 'Cathy' and then tell you, 'No, it's Kathy with a K' - it gets challenging after a while. It tests your stamina. -- Walter Kirn
I love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of voices inside whisper that I am a fraud, and that the jig is up. Surely someone will rise up from the audience and say out loud that not only am I not funny and helpful, but I'm annoying, and a phony. -- Anne Lamott
I do a lot of readings. -- Paul Muldoon
I do Q&As, not readings. -- Martha Grimes
It's gratifying that it does; I love to give readings. -- Ann Beattie
I've been doing Shakespeare readings with my friends for years. -- Joss Whedon
When I do book readings, I always incorporate music or singing. -- Vivek Shraya
This outfit called Los Angeles Theatre Works does readings of plays. -- Jeffrey Jones
I'm also doing constant book readings, movies. You name it, I'm doing it. -- Lynn Redgrave
With various readings stored his empty skull, Learn'd without sense, and venerably dull. -- Charles Churchill
We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings. -- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
I wouldn't mind my book being called an African novel if it didn't invite lazy readings. -- Taiye Selasi
I'm an active author: I travel to give readings and talks, although I know it's risky. -- Felice Picano
It's not a love of poetry readings that attracts those who do come to them but theater. -- A. R. Ammons
To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
Novelists are always resisting autobiographical readings of their work, because they know how false those can be. -- Jeffrey Eugenides
I've done a gazillion readings that have gone on to be movies that are made without me. -- Melanie Lynskey
I love doing readings. I could really give a crap about reviews. It's kind of about the readers. -- Jami Attenberg
I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher. -- Mark Ruffalo
If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all. -- Thomas Carlyle
The happiest moments for me, creatively, are doing readings of a play around a table where there's no audience. -- Jesse Eisenberg
I was a Shakespearean actor, I had preconceived ideas, line readings - everything was a gesture, everything was conscious. -- Dennis Hopper
Reading groups, readings, breakdowns of book sales all tell the same story: when women stop reading, the novel will be dead. -- Ian Mcewan
After the first few readings in comedy venues I did begin to write for laughs. There's something so gratifying about stimulating laughter. -- Aaron Belz
I love all the arts - so museums, theatre, music, walks near trees or by the ocean, time with people, psychological readings. -- Aimee Bender
We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests. -- Henry Miller
I am interested not in individual readings, but in constructing networks of images and meanings capable of reflecting the complexity of the subject. -- Wolfgang Tillmans
The schizophrenic is drowning in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight. Edgar Cayce made the same observation in his readings -- Joseph Campbell
All art is unstable. Its meaning is not necessarily that implied by the author. There is no authoritative voice. There are only multiple readings. -- David Bowie
There is no right or wrong reading of Naked Lunch, though some readings are more common, and thus Burroughs commercial is not the issue. -- Rick Moody
My father was a Social Gospel, far-left liberal, and to some degree a mystic. But we did not have Bible readings; we had prayers. -- Frank Moore Cross
I very much like doing voiceovers, and I also like doing readings. I do books on tape and stuff. I have fun with it. -- Anjelica Huston
But, yes, I learned everything working in theater. I learned the importance of community - I was constantly going to play readings, stand-up nights, improv. nights. -- Elizabeth Meriwether
Once I started first grade, I started going to Emmanuel Baptist Church regularly. I went to Sunday school. We had Bible readings and things like that. -- Wesley Clark
Better to remain silent and thought a fool, than to speak out and confirm that you didn't do the assigned readings before the strategic planning retreat. -- Abraham Lincoln
It makes me believe in fate. In most cases, the readings where I've been really bad have usually been the ones where I got the part -- Robin Wright
It's in being read that a book becomes a book, and in each of a million different readings a book become one of a million different books . . . -- Mohsin Hamid
So you need hardly spell me how every word will be bound over to carry three score and ten toptypsical readings throughout the book of Doublends Jined. -- James Joyce
Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are those who, while reading a book, recall, compare, conjure up emotions from other, previous readings. This is one of the most delicate forms of adultery. -- Ezequiel Martinez Estrada
What is a literary festival? Imagine a sort of cross between school and church. There are no actual festivities; what there are is a lot of public readings. -- Russell Smith
I've done a number of readings at poetry lounges in Vancouver and Los Angeles. I've compiled a book of poetry that's completed, and two others I'm working on. -- Corin Nemec
The variant readings about which any doubt remains among textual critics of the New Testament affect no material question of historic fact or of Christian faith and practice -- F. F. Bruce
I have odometer readings, kids; all sorts of measurements of what I've been doing for the last 20 years. I get it. I get that it was a while ago. -- Dar Williams
The Duino Elegies' are notoriously cryptic, and part of the reason why I have always loved them is because they invite multiple readings over the course of a lifetime. -- Dinaw Mengestu
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If there is any one truth from the legacy of the Cayce readings, it would be that there is a spiritual dimension to humans, something beyond time and space. -- Henry Reed
The readings of Soviet society are as many as the experts you speak to. In my view, it's a society that is overdue for measures of democratization and organization. -- E. P. Thompson
If one wishes to know love, one must live love, in action. Thoughts, readings and discourse on love are of value only as they present questions to be acted upon. -- Leo Buscaglia
My photographs don't go below the surface. They don't go below anything. They're readings of the surface. I have great faith in surfaces. A good one is full of clues. -- Richard Avedon
As a recluse I couldn't bear traffic. It had nothing to do with jealousy, I simply disliked people, crowds, anywhere, except at my readings. People diminished me, they sucked me dry. -- Charles Bukowski
I find it disturbing that one anthropologist's readings of transcripts are being listened to more seriously than 40 senior health service clinicians.[Referring to Jean La Fontaine's 1994 research paper for the DOH] -- Valerie Sinason
I like doing the readings and the autographing, but the interviewing gets a little tedious because you get asked the same questions every day and sometimes three or four times a day. -- Terry McMillan
As a rule it usually takes three or four readings for me to be interested in a script, and if I'm interested I'll read it three or four times before I make a strong decision -- Chris Cooper
As a rule it usually takes three or four readings for me to be interested in a script, and if I'm interested I'll read it three or four times before I make a strong decision. -- Chris Cooper
I just talked to a young lady, a freshman at Santa Barbara. She's taking a course, and 'Moneyball''s one of the required readings. This young lady could dream of one day becoming a general manager. -- Billy Beane
In many (most?) churches there are programs and activities... but so little worship. There are songs and anthems and musicals... but so little worship. There are announcements and readings and prayers... but so little worship. -- Charles R. Swindoll

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