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My mother missed having dinner with Lyndon Johnson because she couldn't find the right hat to wear. While my father went off to the white house to break bread with the President, my mother, who's not a things and stuff person, stayed at the hotel and tried on 10 different hats and missed dinner. ↗


— Emilio Estevez


#bread #break #different #dinner #father

I did that Dior Couture 60th anniversary show in July. It took so long to get ready, I think I would have rather been watching. ↗


— Linda Evangelista


#been #did #get #i #i think

But I care about the reader, and I'm trying to keep the reader's attention for as long as I can. ↗


— Jeffrey Eugenides


#attention #care #i #i can #i care

I studied English literature in the honors program, which means that you had to take courses in various centuries. You had to start with Old English, Middle English, and work your way toward the modern. I figured if I did that it would force me to read some of the things I might not read on my own. ↗


— Jeffrey Eugenides


#courses #did #english #english literature #figured

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way. ↗


— Ray Bradbury


#complete #country #decide #democracy #education

I think the reason novels are regarded to have so much more 'information' than films is that they outsource the scenic design and cinematography to the reader... This, for me, is a powerful argument for the value and potency of literature specifically. Movies don't demand as much from the player. Most people know this; at the end of the day you can be too beat to read but not yet too beat to watch television or listen to music. ↗


— Brian Christian


#reading #design

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters. ↗


— George Eliot


#interpreters #lapse #longer #rather #read

Kat and I were in our 20s when we won in '88. Our personalities were already established. We were ready to move on to a life of professional skating. ↗


— Brian Boitano


#established #i #life #move #move on

The dreadful burden of having nothing to do. ↗


— Nicolas Boileau


#dreadful #having #nothing

I believe it is important to speak to your readers in person... to enable people to have a whole picture of me; I have to both write and speak. I view my role as writer and also as oral communicator. ↗


— Buchi Emecheta


#believe #both #communicator #enable #i






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