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When I was growing up I spent a lot of time reading about ancient China and was really fascinated. -- John Fusco
I was fortunate to grow up in a middle-class home with two hardworking parents who enjoyed both reading and mathematics. -- Freeman A. Hrabowski III
Hairspray' was a show I was involved in from the very first reading, and I was 19. And, 'Hairspray', was one of my favorite movies growing up. -- Laura Bell Bundy
Many in the creative professions were nerds in their pasts because they spent so long reading comics and using their imaginations when they were growing up. -- Jim Lee
Canada has always been a great place for literature. It's strong and growing stronger, and there will always be reading, and there will always be great writers. -- Ruth Ozeki
I get weary of reading about rebirths because we're all growing all the time and it diminishes the life you've lived if you say 'I'm a new person.' -- Rickie Lee Jones
I didn't read comic books, growing up. I was more of a science fiction/fantasy novel guy. I loved reading Edgar Rice Burroughs' 'Tarzan' and that kind of stuff. -- Jesse L. Martin
Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up. People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history. -- Caroline Kennedy
Adapting a Judy Blume book is something I really wanted to do, and you couldn't grow up in the '90s without knowing about 'Tiger Eyes' and reading it. It should've been assigned to all teenage girls. -- Willa Holland
I remember 'Roots' growing up and the cultural impact it had on the country. Watching 'Roots' was not the cool remove of reading about slavery in a book or hearing about it in class. It became something that swept people along. -- John Ridley
I was kind of an outsider growing up, and I preferred reading to being with other kids. When I was about seven, I started to write my own books. I never thought of myself as wanting to be a writer - I just was one. -- Ann Hood
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 think as women we've always been very used to growing up reading and identifying with male protagonists, especially in fantasy. There's a saying in publishing that girls will read about boys, but boys will only read about boys, and it's important to give women strong heroines. -- Cassandra Clare
I still carry the residue of the pressure I felt as a child to read and appreciate the right books. Growing up, I never allowed myself to read beach reading. I was always plowing through Ford Madox Ford's 'Good Solider' or something I wasn't equipped to understand. -- Noah Baumbach
Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older. The best ones leave a tantalising gap between the pictures and the words, a gap that is filled by the reader's imagination, adding so much to the excitement of reading a book. -- Anthony Browne
One of the reasons that I take such joy in being a trustee of the New York Public Library is the love of reading that I found as a child in the Saturday morning library events for preschoolers and first and second graders as I was growing up in Augusta, GA. -- Jessye Norman
It's funny that I got to do 'On the Road' because the thing that had the biggest impact on me growing up was reading books. I was very inspired by the book and this spirit of Dean Moriarty and how envious we all are of somebody who can be that carefree. -- Garrett Hedlund
My dad couldn't connect to my wanting to be a filmmaker. He was very connected in entertainment, and through him I met Steven Spielberg and got rides on his private plane to California. I'd see Spielberg's people reading scripts. I was like, 'That's what I want to be when I grow up.' -- Doug Liman
I grew up poor in crappy situations... various crappy situations. What kept me sane was reading and music. I had so many different literary tastes growing up, be it fiction like Stephen King or Piers Anthony or non-fiction like reading Hunter S. Thompson essays or reading the Beats. I was a huge fan of the Beat movement. -- Corey Taylor
When my kids were growing up, I wanted their teachers to teach them science, reading, math and history. I also wanted them to care about my kids. But I did not want my children's public school teachers teaching them religion. That was my job as a parent and the job of our church, Sunday school, and youth group. -- Adam Hamilton
I had a lot of reading problems growing up. -- Dav Pilkey
Reading Christians are growing Christians. When Christians cease to read, they cease to grow. -- John Wesley
Reading keeps me sane. Growing up, it was my scape, my alternative; it provided both rebellion and peace. -- Amber Heard
When men are growing up and they're reading about Batman, Spiderman, Superman ... those are not fantasies ... they're options. -- Jerry Seinfeld
I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson. -- Francine Pascal
My dream was to eventually make movies. To be part of the fairy tales, stories and novels I loved reading so much growing up. -- Irena A. Hoffman
I get weary of reading about rebirths because we're all growing all the time and it diminishes the life you've lived if you say 'I'm a new person. -- Rickie Lee Jones

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