I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.
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Related My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books. BEVERLY CLEARY I think the reason I'm a writer is because first, I was a reader. I loved to read. I read a lot ... ANDREW CLEMENTS I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library: A... BEVERLY CLEARY James Brown became my father. He would talk to me the way a father talked to a son. He became the fa... AL SHARPTON As a child, I was an obsessive reader, as was everybody in my family all winter long with my father.... JIM HARRISON A Ritual to Read to Each Other If you don’t know the kind of person I am and... WILLIAM STAFFORD Ray Bradbury published his first story 29 years before I was born. He established himself as an inte... SAM WELLER I'm not a great reader, believe it or not. It's not the vocabulary - my father made me read ... DAVID ROBINSON I like to read about subjects unrelated to my work, especially history. 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DONALD TRUMP I'm very aware of the presence of a reader, and that probably is a reaction against a lot of poe... BILLY COLLINS I was a big reader as a child. My father is a great book lover and a librarian, but he forbid me to ... ASA LARSSON My process for determining which eras I'd write about was to just read history books that gave a... SUSAN BARKER How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS When (The World According To) Garp was published, people who’d lost children wrote to me. ‘’I ... JOHN IRVING I think I became a Catholic to annoy my father. A. N. WILSON I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father GREG NORMAN My parents were very supportive and always encouraged us. My father was a gentle, nice man. My mothe... ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH My parents were interested in history and the world. My father read Graham Greene and Georges Simeno... ROBERT HARRIS I will follow in my father's footsteps. My father set the bar very high. He was a wonderful lead... JIGME KHESAR NAMGYEL WANGCHUCK I am imprinted with the whole sense of European history, especially German history, going back to Wo... LISEL MUELLER I owe a lot to my parents, especially by mother and my father. GREG NORMAN My father never kissed me, hugged me or told me that he loved me. As my only living parent, he becam... IYANLA VANZANT I was lucky because my mum was a teacher and showed me how to read and write. But most importantly, ... DARREN SHAN I read my books aloud before they were published. BEVERLY CLEARY I am very close to my brother Ramesh Babu. When my father was away for shootings, my brother would t... MAHESH BABU Fortunately, I have been very healthy all my life and very active all my life and have enjoyed an ac... CAITLYN JENNER I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very... CHARLES KIMBROUGH I came to Harlem from West Virginia when I was three, after my mother died. My father, who was very ... WALTER DEAN MYERS One of the most memorable things I hear is when someone tells me that my books got a reluctant reade... SUZANNE COLLINS Johnny Mercer was my father's best friend and became mine as well. And Harold Arlen, whom I woul... MARGARET WHITING My father was a doctor, but he was what I would call an intellectual - very well-read and very inter... SHIRIN NESHAT Ah, much deluded! lay aside Thy threats, and anger misapplied! Art not afraid with sounds ... JOHN MILTON My hobby was the military. I had been reading military history, especially as it relates to the Civi... MARC RAMSEY I'm definitely of the 'Harry Potter'-transfigured-me-into-a-reader-and-writer generation... ADAM SILVERA I don't know if [Davis] knows this, but my father passed away last summer. He became a father figure... ROBERT VADEN I think my strength is always been in being very natural. I think Shakespeare and things like that w... ZACH GILFORD He became a father-figure to me. He was a big part of my life. DAVE FLEMING There was part of me that wanted to see the world and travel to distant places, but I could only do ... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing s... C.S. LEWIS My Aunt Helen was my favorite person in the whole world. She was my mom’s sister. She got straight... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I would say my greatest achievement in life right now - my greatest achievement period is - and I... BO JACKSON Thanks to my mother, people tell me I look younger than I am, especially without make-up. And I supp... DITA VON TEESE I first became aware of the delights of the natural world when my father, an entomologist, presented... JEAN CRAIGHEAD GEORGE I probably became an actor because of my vivid imagination, and doing voice-over really sort of take... ERIC STONESTREET I studied Shakespeare all through high school. Both of my parents teach English and history, so it h... XAVIER SAMUEL I loved stories as a kid, both being read to me and enjoying on my own. All these stories inspired m... TONY DITERLIZZI My dad was a voracious news consumer. I remember just sitting with my family all the time. I would s... DANA PERINO I always credited my mother with inspiring me to be a writer because she was such a passionate reade... JUDITH VIORST I still remember how my father used to wake me up at 4 A.M. and make me study. He also used to take ... MOUNI ROY My sensei was a British karate champion named Brian Fitkin. He was my mentor and because I had a har... DOLPH LUNDGREN Then there was Clark Ashton Smith, who wrote for Weird Tales and who had a wild imagination. He wasn... JACK VANCE At the end, a journey based on my imagination will leave me imagining that I should have engaged the... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH I would love to go back to any time in European history, especially in Irish history, to the second ... GABRIEL BYRNE It's wonderful to feel supported, but there's a lot of negative energy towards me as well. S... SIENNA MILLER As a warning to parents, I mention that my father preferred me to my brother, which was very injurio... GEORGE MULLER I have very happy memories of fairy tales. My mother used to take me to the library in Toronto to ch... MIKE MYERS I read all the time. I love it. My fantasy would be to be locked into a library. I'd be very, ve... PINK Like a horrible nightmare, the abrogation of equal rights weighs upon us all, but especially upon th... MAX LIEBERMANN Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I ... NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. 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My parents came to the ceremony. Somebody else had w... AMY CHUA My father was a successful real estate developer, and he was a very tough man but a good man. My fat... DONALD TRUMP I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit... MADHUR BHANDARKAR I became active in politics because I saw the possibility, if we all sat back and did nothing, of a ... HELEN GAHAGAN DOUGLAS My goal was to play drums, but my father made me take piano lessons. He told me I needed to learn to... BRIAN AUSTIN GREEN There was a moment when any hope within me froze solid and I was finally emptied of all energy to fi... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Fairy tales were the door to the world of imagination for me as a child, that land I often lived in ... REGAN WALKER I used to be addicted to 'Reader's Digest' growing up. I would read the stories about lo... SIA I spent my entire childhood with my father. I started my first business at 16, and we became busines... MAKSIM CHMERKOVSKIY I tend to like to read history - recent history, because I find that much more intriguing than just ... JESSE VENTURA My father died when I was 7. I was his favorite child, and he was my beloved father. I brought him a... P. L. TRAVERS Her style is such that she's not in a hurry. She's very careful. Like Andrew Wyeth she doesn't turn ... EARL ROGERS Children are amazingly adaptable. What would be grotesquely abnormal became my normality in the pris... GEORGE TAKEI I was a big reader of Zane Grey as a young boy, and so horses and the West figured large in my imagi... DAVID BERGEN My father became a mythical figure, more force than man. . .he was a force my mother would use as a ... DAGOBERTO GILB I was a very religious child - I went to synagogue at least once, sometimes twice, a day. And I reme... YEHUDA AMICHAI I always read all these books about the slaves. My mother is very educated. My father would talk to ... WYNTON MARSALIS Who would care if I became pregnant, who would be scandalized? Aunty Eva, Anwar's flatmates. Omar wo... LEILA ABOULELA I was quite the spoiled brat. I have quite a temper, obviously inherited from my father, and I becam... LISA MARIE PRESLEY I have a very active team who works with me when it comes to my styling and putting together a look. JACQUELINE FERNANDEZ The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m... ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt... ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank... ANDREW TO
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