I like to read, especially nonfiction. I love learning, so I study languages, cook, learn basic HTML, and enjoy other activities that stimulate communication and the dark recesses of my musician's brain.
Don't time travel into the past, roaming through the nuances as if they can change. Don't bookmark pages you've already read.
When the children were little, I'd fly into L.A. for a specific work project, but then I'd leave again, and when I was home, I wouldn't even read a script.
I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more than twenty years and was recognized only by his dog.
Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.
I've read everything Thomas Wolfe ever wrote; my brother and I memorized whole chapters of 'You Can't Go Home Again' and 'Look Homeward, Angel.'
An important aspect of the current situation is the strong social reaction against suggestions that the home language of African American children be used in the first steps of learning to read and write.
As Lord Chesterfield said of the generals of his day, 'I only hope that when the enemy reads the list of their names, he trembles as I do.'
Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.
I greatly enjoy reading the biographies of scientists, and when doing so I always hope to learn the secrets of their success. Alas, those secrets generally remain elusive.
How we feel about ourselves as we read the newspaper, set the table, wash the dishes, recycle the trash and wash our clothes... is essential to our overall happiness and well-being.
I read the script and decide if a particular character looks fun to play. I look for complexity and a sense of humor. Those are crucial, real things to life.
More people are reading poetry now than at any time in the history of the human race.
Just like I am obsessed with the history of fashion, I love reading about the history of makeup.
You can't just read the Koran to understand Muslim life. You have to look at history, at personalities, at economics, and so on.
My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.
Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it.
I am now reading Cooper's Naval History which I find very interesting.
I read a lot of history. The passive Jews in Germany didn't survive. The smart ones got out.
It made me think about a whole area of human activity that was not really a concern to me before that, because I was involved in reading Chinese history, or languages, or whatever.
I've been a lifelong horror fan, but at the same time, I would say 90 percent of my reading is biographies and nonfiction history.
