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J. Maarten Troost

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VITA SACKVILLE-WEST When I read 'Fantastic Beasts,' the world that J. K. Rowling has created is so wonderful.
EDDIE REDMAYNE If you can read, you can lead
SOTONYE ANGA Read nothing that you do not care to remember, and remember nothing you do not mean to use.
PROFESSOR BLACKIE I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers.
EMILE M. CIORAN One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universit...
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN If you can read, then you can recite Shakespeare. But that's not acting.
ITZHAK PERLMAN Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.
S. E. HINTON What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON You read and write and sing and experience, thinking that one day these things will build the charac...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine pri...
PETE SEEGER Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine pri...
PETE SEEGER I can read in red.
I can read in blue.
I can read in pickle color too.
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THEODORA GOSS Education is when you read the find print; experience is what you get when you don't.
PETE SEEGER Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.
PETE SEEGER Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't
PETE SEEGER Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
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DAVID DIAZ Imagination can take you Places....READ
BRANDON MULL You can read between the lines.
LEANDER PAES Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.
WILLIAM BLAKE Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your...
ANGELA CARTER Read it with sorrow and you will feel hate.
Read it with anger and you will feel vengeful.
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W. P. KINSELLA Read more. Read every time you go to bed; read in the day - because at least, reading a book, you ca...
THEO JAMES Shakespeare is rich and beautiful, and it can be an amazing experience to read and to watch and to w...
CAMPBELL SCOTT Nothing Like A Good Read To Put You In A Good Mood!
WALTER CROMARTIE JR If you can't write, read.
If you can't read, walk.
Or walk and read, then write.
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PETE SEEGER Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.
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NEIL CROSS I'm not well-read, but when I read, I read well.
KURT COBAIN I am not read well, but when I do read, I read well
KURT COBAIN Master books, but do not let them master you. - Read to live, not live to read.
OWEN MEREDITH The lesson is what you read in the fine print. The experience is what you get when you don't.
UNKNOWN Think more than you read and become an author. Think as much as you read and become a speaker. Read ...
EPHDAN Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so t...
R. L. STINE If you read a lot, nothing is as great as you've imagined. Venice is -- Venice is better.
FRAN LEBOWITZ If you can read this, thank a teacher.
Read. You can always talk with another reader.
RORKE DENVER If you believe everything you read, better not read.
JAPANESE PROVERB Read, re-read!
Every word you read is a food for thy soul!
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I cannot read God's mind, however I can read God's Word.
R.C. SPROUL I can almost lip-read him but cannot hear.
TALGAT MUSABAYEV The novel can be read simply as a story which you can skip if you want. It can be read as a story yo...
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HERBERT READ The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing.
HERBERT READ Others attempt to live cautiously in the safety of established patterns. They do not feel fulfilled,...
RANDY READ In History, stagnant waters, whether they be stagnant waters of custom or those of despotism, harbou...
HERBERT READ The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the grow...
HERBERT READ But the further step, by means of which a civilization is given its quality or culture, is only atta...
HERBERT READ It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and th...
HERBERT READ I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration.
HERBERT READ Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of...
HERBERT READ I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence; but I ...
HERBERT READ I know of no better name than Anarchism.
HERBERT READ Creeds and castes, and all forms of intellectual and emotional grouping, belong to the past.
HERBERT READ Progress is measured by the degree of differentiation within a society.
HERBERT READ The faculty, staff and students never lose sight of our increasingly multicultural society as the co...
CHARLES READ A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them.
HERBERT READ Mr grandfather would turn in his grave if he could see it now.
CHARLES READ What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos.
HERBERT READ The principle of equity first came into evidence in Roman jurisprudence and was derived by analogy f...
HERBERT READ We were going down and Duncan killed the first extra end and we played the next one and managed to w...
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HERBERT READ It's really advertising as entertainment content.
ANGELA READ If they want to see this commercial, they can get it. People are looking online for commercials. Thi...
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BUDDY READ We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just...
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HERBERT READ What a horrible way to go. I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy.
TIM READ Mark ran his fingers over the bindings and
whispered words, written long ago, words that
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J. TILLMAN My humor is my creativity, and my skepticism is a gift.
J. TILLMAN I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something's not good enough, and I won't stop unt...
J. COLE Usually I start with a beat, I start making a beat, and my producer side is making the beat. And on ...
J. COLE There was the time I bought three cars in the span of three or four weeks. It was crazy; it wasn'...
J. COLE For Black Music Month, I would definitely want to celebrate Isaac Hayes.
JUICY J I want to be like Bruce Springsteen or something, making songs that are relevant.
J. COLE I'm an artist, but I'm also a businesswoman, and sometimes you have to play hard.
JESSIE J I have calmed down my look. Is it really necessary to wear all that jewelry and makeup at 7 A.M.? Wh...
JESSIE J Time is the glue that bonds a broken heart, but love is the air which dries the glue. -J. Franklin.
J. FRANKLIN I had a rat-tail when I was younger. I had this nice Bobby Brown fade, with a rat-tail that was long...
J. COLE It's really important to me that my niece and nephews can come and see my show, as can my granda...
JESSIE J The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delig...
J. KRISHNAMURTI Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has n...
J. SWARTZ I see my music as Emotional Therapeutic Pop music that bleeds into loads of different genres.
JESSIE J People admire my confidence, but they never see me when I'm alone. That's when I'm the most raw beca...
J. MERRIDEW There will come a time in your life when you lose something that matters to you. You'll fight for it...
J. STERLING We are your friends. It is the law of friendship that you tell us things you don’t want to tell us...
J. LYNN