The era of playing aggressive cricket and to have the mid-on up is gone. You now try to read the mindset of a batsman.
Looks aren't a big thing to me. I keep reading these articles in fan magazines about me, and I don't even know who they're talking about. It's boring.
When I read biographies, I'm only interested in the first few chapters. I'm not interested in when people become successful. I'm interested in what made them successful.
Too many adults wish to 'protect' teenagers when they should be stimulating them to read of life as it is lived.
Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections.
You've probably read in People that I'm a nice guy - but when the doctor first told me I had Parkinson's, I wanted to kill him.
My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don't get it, I can't do it.
My rule is that if I interview someone, they should never read what I have to say about them and regret having given me the interview.
It was so exciting to go to the record shop and buy a piece of vinyl and hold it, read the liner notes, look at the pictures. Even the smell of the vinyl.
SHE Is A Wonderful Romantic Poem With Billions of Lines. Even If I Could, I Wouldn't Finish Reading HER In My Entire Life....
If you always read the same old ideas, what progress can you make in the name of discovering new paths?
I don't have a copy of my books, and the degree to which I never read them is profound. I never look.
The audiobooks I buy are never first-time reads - only rereadings of books I know well that I find intoxicating.
The scanning of barcodes, or the reading of RFID transponders, generates data that is used in a software package to provide management or control information.
A lot of my reading over the next few months will be the works of Hans Christian Andersen - I have been appointed an ambassador for the bicentenary celebrations of his birth next year.
I've never canceled a subscription to a newspaper because of bad cartoons or editorials. If that were the case, I wouldn't have any newspapers or magazines to read.
Because people have read those things in the newspapers, they think it is true. Ten years ago all these things I have just mentioned would have upset me.
I keep a quotes journal - of every sentence that I've wanted to remember from my reading of the past 30 years.
Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'
I write five pages a day. If you would read five pages a day, we'd stay right even.
A newspaper that you're not reading can be used for anything; and the same people didn't think it was immoral to wrap their garbage in newspaper.