Rabih Alameddine quote: "I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught."

When I was young, we were taught not to dunk. We were taught not to stand out from the rest of the t...
YAO MING

If it's about what I like, I like opera as a music and deathstep and dubstep.
DEYTH BANGER My husband and I like to reminisce about how, when we were 9, we read straight through L. Frank Baum...
JUDY BLUME It's funny, I listen to friends who talk about back when they were 14, eight, 16, whatever, as i...
CATHERINE MCCORMACK It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it&#...
SAMUEL BARNETT I never wanted to become an actress because I'd read great literature or seen great Shakespeare....
JULIE WALTERS

The words you can’t find, you borrow.
We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN I read my sister's diary when I was 7. She was, I think, 13. It was awful to read it.
JACK GLEESON I didn't learn to read until I was almost 14 years old. Reading out loud for me was a nightmare ...
PATRICIA POLACCO When we first began and I was 14, my influences were the stuff that was in my parent's record co...
DANIEL JOHNS I fell in love with Shakespeare when I was 12, and I read the whole works. Yes, I was precocious.
CLAIRE TOMALIN I trained in Shakespeare, and that's all comedy, even when it's tragedy.
OLIVIA THIRLBY The reason that I'm a writer today is because of Shakespeare and falling in love with Shakespear...
JOHN LOGAN Shakespeare's taught me that there are more words in the English language than I have got in my ...
ZOE WANAMAKER When I read Andrew Motion's biography, I wept. It's something about the purity of the story ...
JANE CAMPION I didn't read children's books when I was a child. The only books in our house were ration b...
MICHAEL FOREMAN It's funny, because '1600 Penn' was the first time I really started to read the reviews,...
JOSH GAD I accidentally entered a youth pageant when I was 14. That's like a beauty pageant, but without ...
ZOOEY DESCHANEL I've been interested in writing and storytelling since I learned to read, but it wasn't unti...
JAY MCINERNEY I was about 13 or 14 when I heard Malcolm X's speech 'Message to the Grass Roots.'
TA-NEHISI COATES I was very ambitious. It all started because my first boyfriend dumped me when I was 14. I'd alw...
JANE MARCH Virginia Woolf's great novel, 'Mrs. Dalloway,' is the first great book I ever read. I re...
MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM I did do some Shakespeare on film, it's really difficult. It's really interesting, because I...
RACHEL MCADAMS There's something magical about film, it's the ultimate for me, because it's kind of per...
PAUL MERTON I was emotional. I wanted to be taken seriously. I was pretty emo. I was reciting Shakespeare monolo...
CONSTANCE WU I'm a self-taught landscape gardener; it's a real passion of mine. It's what I do in my ...
MIRA NAIR I try not to read the stuff online because it's so hurtful and stuff. There was somebody that sa...
TAYLOUR PAIGE I didn't read much of anything till I was 15, except Alistair MacLean and Michael Moorcock - the...
GEOFF DYER When I walked in to read with Edie Falco, it was nice, because I auditioned in New York, and it was ...
ADAM FERRARA I went to Yale's drama school for theater, so we did tons of Shakespeare; then, I got out of sch...
KRISTEN CONNOLLY I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON It's often assumed that British actors read Shakespeare and sonnets as we're going to bed at...
KATE WINSLET I read all of Ayn Rand's novels when I was 17.
RAND PAUL Because Shakespeare's language is so expansive, we're under this misconception that it's...
JESSICA LANGE The movies I made when I was 14 or 15, I have a hard time looking at those. Those were the awkward y...
JODIE FOSTER My parents always encouraged me and I had a good home life. We were always taught to respect things ...
BETTY CUTHBERT I'd grab the camera and tell people what to do, and when I was 14, someone told me that it was c...
GUILLERMO DEL TORO It just so happened that my agent called and said, 'There's this movie 'Pitch Perfect.&#...
UTKARSH AMBUDKAR I'm reading Sebastian Faulks's 'Birdsong' at the moment. I read it when I was younge...
ELIZA DOOLITTLE I read John Irving's novel 'The World According To Garp' when I was about 14 or 15. It w...
GLEN DUNCAN I can't think of anything worse than calling Shakespeare 'highbrow,' because on the one ...
TIMOTHY DALTON I've only cried at one book, but I'm too embarrassed to tell you which. It wasn't terrib...
REBECCA MAKKAI I've been wearing Chinese clothes since I was 14. I can't wear a suit. I'm small, and wh...
AZZEDINE ALAIA When I was young, I ran to see Astaire and Rogers, Huston, Lubitsch - they were formative for me. I ...
LINA WERTMULLER It's funny, because what happens to me when I read a script, when something grabs hold of me, I ...
JOHNNY DEPP By the time I was seven, I did a sonnet at Shakespeare's Globe theatre for Shakespeare's bir...
ALFRED ENOCH When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scie...
SAM TRAMMELL When I read 'Paradise Lost,' or 'Richard III,' it is clear that Milton and Shakespea...
MARILYNNE ROBINSON My mother's father taught English literature. When I was about ten or eleven, I could recite Mac...
BERNIE TAUPIN I'm a games and theory kind of guy. I love puzzles, so it was fun dissecting Shakespeare's p...
NEIL PATRICK HARRIS I've only read three books by Stephen King. When I was 10 I read 'The Long Walk,' one of...
LEV GROSSMAN Mom takes all the credit for my success. Now Mom says, 'I read your face when you were a baby, a...
MING-NA WEN If you can read, then you can recite Shakespeare. But that's not acting.
ITZHAK PERLMAN When I was in high school, I read all of Neil Simon's plays.
DARIUS RUCKER When I read 'Stand By Me,' it was like, 'This is a look back at the same time period whe...
ROB REINER When I was about 14 I remember thinking when it came to proposing to my future girlfriend, I'd m...
TINIE TEMPAH When I was eleven, my mother gave me Robert K. Massie's 'Nicholas and Alexandra.' It was...
KATHRYN HARRISON It was awkward because the high school that I went to, my aunt taught at, it was this private boy...
IAN HARDING During my adolescence, our family dwelt in rural Alaska. We were dirt poor, Depression-era poor. Tar...
LAIRD BARRON When I was younger, acting, singing and dancing was what it was all about. That's really what ke...
SUKI WATERHOUSE I lost my virginity when I was 14. And I haven't been able to find it.
DAVID DUCHOVNY Young screenwriters are always very frustrated when they talk to me. They say, 'How do we get to...
JOHN LOGAN I don't like to read things that people write about me. I'd rather read what kids have to sa...
DAVID BOWIE Peter Brook's 'Midsummer Night's Dream,' I remember seeing. That was pretty early on...
JEREMY IRONS I don't read books. I read 'On the Road' in high school, and that was awesome, so I gues...
MEGHAN TRAINOR I always send new writers to 'Writer's Digest Books' line-up of how-to books. I read the...
GAIL Z. MARTIN I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read.
JACK PRELUTSKY I had learning problems when I was in elementary school, and didn't really start to read well un...
LAUREN TARSHIS When I was 13 or 14, my mother used to gift me books that I was dying to read. Those are my most mem...
KAJOL The leading character isn't always the most important or interesting character; when people thin...
PILOU ASBAEK When I was younger, I used to find stories about divas charming. Not much anymore.
RABIH ALAMEDDINE I jokingly say if there was one great thing about, you know, the Lebanese Civil War was that it forc...
RABIH ALAMEDDINE We seem, particularly over here in the West and in America in particular, to have forgotten that we ...
RABIH ALAMEDDINE I can easily hold two opposing beliefs at the same time without any problem, which I find - well, mi...
RABIH ALAMEDDINE Before prognostication, a disclaimer: I have never been able to pick a winner. Not that it has ever ...
RABIH ALAMEDDINE The Lebanese Civil War, 1975-1990, spanned four World Cups. It would have been a more symmetrical fi...
RABIH ALAMEDDINE If you want to know whether soccer is big in America, pick a weekend, go to any park in the land, an...
RABIH ALAMEDDINE All living languages are promiscuous. We promiscuous speakers shamelessly shoplift words, plucking b...
RABIH ALAMEDDINE A player should be disparaged if he gives less than his all, if he doesn't give 100%, no matter ...
RABIH ALAMEDDINE I loved problems on paper, and I was good at math, but I was a mechanical engineer, and I never unde...
RABIH ALAMEDDINE I oscillate between being cynical and being naive on a regular basis. I always think that not much s...
RABIH ALAMEDDINE There are over 1 million refugees in Lebanon, a country of 4 million people. How do we solve that? I...
RABIH ALAMEDDINE A soccer game is a Wagner opera. The narrative sets up, the tension builds, the music ebbs and flows...
RABIH ALAMEDDINE My father and I rarely saw eye to eye when I was growing up. We saw the world differently. It was on...
RABIH ALAMEDDINE Now I love hoops. I'm a diehard UCLA fan, have been since my freshman year. But basketball is th...
RABIH ALAMEDDINE In Lebanon, there are completely different opinions and values in one country in terms of religion, ...
RABIH ALAMEDDINE Close friends consider me a literary snob.
RABIH ALAMEDDINE No one needs to be reminded of racism in soccer: the xenophobia, the nativism and, yes, nationalism.
RABIH ALAMEDDINE 'Harat' is actually - it's a Lebanese dialect word. It comes from 'the mapmaker,'...
RABIH ALAMEDDINE I wonder if being sane means disregarding the chaos that is life, pretending only an infinitesimal s...
RABIH ALAMEDDINE In 1982, Algeria made their first appearance at the World Cup. I believe it was the first Arab count...
RABIH ALAMEDDINE I allegedly am an outsider writer, so I write from the perspective of somebody who doesn't compl...
RABIH ALAMEDDINE If I were to pray in Arabic, I'd pray to Allah. If I were to pray in English, I'd pray to Go...
RABIH ALAMEDDINE I always say show me a storyteller who doesn't embellish, and I'll show you a bad one.
RABIH ALAMEDDINE In 1975, I left the burning city of Beirut for the quiet insanity of England. To say that short, fra...
RABIH ALAMEDDINE A phoenix, Beirut seems to always pull itself out its ashes, reinvents itself, has been conquered nu...
RABIH ALAMEDDINE My father loved Brazilian football, a diehard follower, so of course, he hated Germany and always ro...
RABIH ALAMEDDINE I get upset about what is taken as great literature and what is cute and exotic.
RABIH ALAMEDDINE Whenever I come across an Arabic word mired in English text, I am momentarily shocked out of the nar...
RABIH ALAMEDDINE Me? I was lost for long time. I didn’t make any friends for few years. You can say I made friends ...
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I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.

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