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  • My perfect morning is spent drinking coffee, eating porridge and reading the paper at a local cafe. -- Anton du Beke
  • While their competition is asleep, world-class leaders are up - and they're not watching the news or reading the paper. They are thinking, planning and practicing. -- Robin S. Sharma
  • I love being home, reading the paper in the morning and having a cup of coffee, doing laundry, going grocery shopping and running daily errands. For me, it's important to have that balance in my life. -- Tristan Prettyman
  • Americans reading the paper, listening to the news every single day, and all you hear is things are getting worse and worse. And that has a psychological effect on consumer confidence. That's what consumer confidence is. -- Howard Schultz
  • I know a lot of people in the retirement village that I have a house in in Florida that are on the Internet and are reading the paper on the Internet, and they're communicating on the Internet. -- Davy Jones
  • In terms of the way people see me, it breaks down into two very clear and distinct groups: those who think they know me from reading the papers and those who really know me by reading my books. -- David Icke
  • I don't read the papers; I stopped reading the papers. I read the papers only during periods of crisis, and I think papers are too long on a regular day and too short days when we have a crisis. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • It is very annoying - things have been written by people who didn't know me at all or Princess Diana. They were written by people who never knew me or met me. It did make me angry. I just stopped reading the papers. -- Hasnat Khan
  • It's like the code of living by yourself. People who are single know what I'm talking about. You eat standing up, reading the paper. Or you say to yourself, this isn't even cutting it, I'm taking a TV dinner and I'm getting in bed here. -- Mary Chapin Carpenter
  • Adapting to our Second Adulthood is not all about the money. It requires thinking about how to find a new locus of identity or how to adjust to a spouse who stops working and who may loll, enjoying coffee and reading the paper online while you're still commuting. -- Gail Sheehy
  • I was lying in bed on a Saturday morning, reading the paper, when my phone went. The caller was Rangers director, Jack Gillespie, and he offered me the manager's job at Ibrox. I was flattered but declined with thanks. John Greig was a good friend of mine and I had no intention of being involved in ousting him. -- Alex Ferguson
  • I probably shouldn't admit this since I work in the tech industry, but I still prefer reading paper books. -- Sheryl Sandberg
  • I've done auditions where the casting director is taking the paper out of my hand in the middle of reading. -- Kevin Hart
  • Instead of reading a paper, we now read the news online. Instead of buying books at a store, we buy them on-line. What's so revolutionary? The Internet has mainly affected our leisure life. -- Ha-Joon Chang
  • My grandfather was a newspaper publisher and his paper had all the comics in NYC, so some of my earliest memories are of reading the family paper and heading straight for the comics insert. -- Rick Moody
  • Because these show are live, script pages are being switched during the program and new commercial teases might be yelled in your ear with just enough time to scribble them on scrap paper before reading them. -- Randy West
  • Since graduation, I have measured time in 4-by-5-inch pieces of paper, four days on the left and three on the right. Every social engagement, interview, reading, flight, doctor's appointment, birthday and dry-cleaning reminder has been handwritten between metal loops. -- Sloane Crosley
  • If a scientist is reading a paper online and clicks through to purchase material, there's value there. It might be a business model; it might be enough to defray the cost of open access. I just want to create the infrastructure that makes movement and sharing easier. -- John Wilbanks
  • Anybody who has had the pleasure of reading an article about themselves in the press knows that, on the whole, there is a huge amount of inaccuracy, value judgment and the use of a crowbar to insert editorial bias that reflects the current political leaning of that particular paper. -- Jo Brand
  • No, I got a GED in my 30s. My kids know that I never stop learning, and they know I love reading. I have books overflowing everywhere. I am current on today's events and I read the paper every day, and we talk about it, so they see that appetite. -- Michael J. Fox
  • I can't predict how reading habits will change. But I will say that the greatest loss is the paper archive - no more a great stack of manuscripts, letters, and notebooks from a writer's life, but only a tiny pile of disks, little plastic cookies where once were calligraphic marvels. -- Paul Theroux
  • The HoLee model was the first term structure model. I remember reading their paper soon after it was published and as it was fairly different from many of the other papers that I had read, I had to read it quite a few times. I realized that it was a really important paper. -- John Hull
  • Normally, what I do for fun is just nothing. I try to just relax. Normally, it involves just relaxing and reading and maybe going out and meeting up with a friend. I live a very simple existence. I would much rather just sit around and listen to a couple of records and read the paper. -- Colin Hanks
  • Because I spend so much time traveling, I tend to do most of my reading on the same iPad on which I write. For me, it's words, not paper, that matter most in the end. This practice has had the additional benefit of greatly reducing the time I spend storming through the house, defaming the mysterious forces who 'hid my book.' -- Scott Turow
  • I always wrote. I wrote from when I was 12. That was therapeutic for me in those days. I wrote things to get them out of feeling them, and onto paper. So writing in a way saved me, kept me company. I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know. -- Carrie Fisher
  • Unless i'm reading an assignment or doing a paper or taking a test, i'm thinking about you. -- Virginia C. Andrews
  • Well, my paper has asked me to do a series: Lives of the Great Musicians, reading time 2 minutes. -- Dodie Smith
  • After reading a paper by a young theoretical scientist, Pauli, shaking his head sadly, commented: That is not even wrong. -- Wolfgang Pauli
  • I really can't help what someone thinks of me because they are reading a paper and choosing to believe it. -- Shenae Grimes
  • What a dog I got. Last night he went on the paper four times - three while I was reading it. -- Rodney Dangerfield
  • Although I always loved reading and putting words on paper, I never thought about becoming a writer until I was twelve. -- Kimberly Willis Holt
  • I think what has happened to our basketball team, we've been badly distracted. They're not reading too many positive things in the paper. -- Bill Russell
  • I am working on a technical paper on compassion. So I am reading everything I can on the subject, including my own mind and heart. -- Joan Halifax
  • I snatched the paper away from Dopey. "Hey," he yelled. "I was reading that!" "Let somebody who can pronounce all the big words have a try," I said. -- Meg Cabot
  • The temptation is not here, where you are reading about it or praying about it. It is down in your shop, among bales and boxes, ten-penny nails, and sand-paper. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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