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I've been doing Shakespeare readings with my friends for years.
Joss Whedon / Screenwriter
Readings
Shakespeare
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To get overprotective about particular readings of the Bible is always in danger of idolatry.
N. T. Wright / Bishop Of Durham
Bible
Danger
Idolatry
Overprotective
Particular
Reading
Readings
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I worked probably 25 years by myself, just writing and working, not trying to publish much, not giving readings.
Mary Oliver / Poet
Giving
Publish
Reading
Writing
Years
Readings
Worked
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I love all the arts - so museums, theatre, music, walks near trees or by the ocean, time with people, psychological readings.
Aimee Bender / Novelist
Ocean
Museums
Psychological
Walks
Love Time Music
Near
Readings
Trees
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In my life, I've seen enormous increase in the consumption of poetry. When I was young, there were virtually no poetry readings.
Donald Hall / Poet
Consumption
Enormous
Increase
Life Poetry My Life
Readings
Virtually
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I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group.
Leonard Cohen / Singer-Songwriter
Chanting
Groups
Jazz
Reading
Singing
Readings
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We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests.
Henry Miller / Writer
Facts
Magazines
Newspapers
Reading
Talk
Another
Digest
Readings
Theories
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If there is any one truth from the legacy of the Cayce readings, it would be that there is a spiritual dimension to humans, something beyond time and space.
Henry Reed / Poet
Space
Humans
Legacy
Reading
Spiritual
Time And Space
Dimension
Readings
Spiritual Dimension
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What is a literary festival? Imagine a sort of cross between school and church. There are no actual festivities; what there are is a lot of public readings.
Russell Smith /
Church
Imagine
School
Lot
Actual
Between
Public
Cross
Literary
Festival
Readings
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I've done a number of readings at poetry lounges in Vancouver and Los Angeles. I've compiled a book of poetry that's completed, and two others I'm working on.
Corin Nemec / Actor
Book
Los Angeles
Reading
Two
Vancouver
Angeles
Completed
Los
Readings
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I've gone to readings to see authors after meeting them on Twitter. And while there, I've found myself sitting next to still more writers who I met on Twitter, too.
John Searles / Writer
Twitter
Authors
Myself See More
Meeting
Readings
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We met with the poet Frank O'Hara, who was a link between Upper and Lower Bohemia, and who worked at the Museum of Modern Art, where we had hoped to do the readings.
David Amram / Composer
Art
Bohemia
Frank
Modern Art
Museums
Poet
Reading
Hoped
Link
Lower
Met
Museum
Readings
Upper
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'The Duino Elegies' are notoriously cryptic, and part of the reason why I have always loved them is because they invite multiple readings over the course of a lifetime.
Dinaw Mengestu / Novelist
Lifetime
Multiple
Invite
Readings
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I would say the nature of what I do can be very overwhelming and some things revolve around things that are not positive. But I cannot allow fear to dictate my readings.
Tyler Henry /
Overwhelming
Dictate
Readings
Revolve
Some Things
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For me in readings, I really have to be diplomatic and use discernment in what comes through because there is a lot that comes through and it oftentimes is very personal.
Tyler Henry /
Diplomatic
Discernment
Oftentimes
Readings
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When I'm out of town, I always try to get some readings or some type of new information to where I'm learning more about Islam, just to become the best Muslim I can become.
Dave East /
Information
Islam
New Information
Type
Muslim
Readings
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That is what I did with Jack, and that's why he liked to do the readings with me because he knew I was there for him, and for our ability to blend the poetry and the music.
David Amram / Composer
Poetry Music Me
Blend
Liked
Jack
Readings
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As a rule it usually takes three or four readings for me to be interested in a script, and if I'm interested I'll read it three or four times before I make a strong decision.
Chris Cooper / Film Actor
Decision
Interested
Readings
Rule
Script
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Literary readings aren't going to shake their reputation as the added-fibre of our entertainment diet until the people who organize and participate in them snap out of this mentality.
Lynn Coady / Novelist
Diet
Entertainment
Mentality
Organize
Reputation
Literary
Participate
Readings
Shake
Snap
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I teach fiction in my workshops, and some of the readings could be classified as horror. For example, 'House Taken Over,' a short story by Julio Cortazar, is a work I regularly teach.
Laura Van Den Berg /
Short Story
Workshops
Classified
For Example
Readings
Regularly
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I did a lot of small black-box theater in New York when I was starting out. I'd get a group of actors together to do workshops and readings. And I ended up directing three or four productions.
Chris Messina / Actor
Productions
Workshops
Directing
Readings
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Readings are more like weaving a tapestry. Possibly people are getting a cathartic release - but music is physical. Music pummels you. It's got a beat; it's loud. Whereas this is more cerebral.
John Darnielle / Musician
Cathartic
Cerebral
Loud
Release
Tapestry
Weaving
Music People More
Possibly
Readings
Whereas
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I just talked to a young lady, a freshman at Santa Barbara. She's taking a course, and Moneyball's one of the required readings. This young lady could dream of one day becoming a general manager.
Billy Beane / Baseball Player
Barbara
Freshman
General Manager
Santa
Lady
Manager
Readings
Required
Talked
Young Lady
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I don't do as many readings as I used to. There was a time when I was on the road a lot more, at home in Ireland, in Britain, in Canada and the States, a time when I had more stamina and appetite for it.
Seamus Heaney / Poet
Appetite
Britain
Canada
Ireland
Stamina
Time Home Road
Readings
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I get readings, I sometimes get five a week. You'll feel like a schizophrenic by the end of that week. I don't know who I am any more. You'll be in conversation with a friend and start spitting out dialogue.
Josh Holloway / Actor
Conversation
Dialogue
Reading
Schizophrenic
Sometimes
Who I Am
I Am Start Feel
Readings
Spitting
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Within the Christian tradition, fundamentalism arose in the 19th century as an effort to push back against modern' readings of the Bible that suggested everything in the text wasn't true in some literal sense.
Jay Parini /
Bible
Effort
Fundamentalism
Literal
Within
Against
Christian Tradition
Push
Readings
Suggested
Text
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I don't like the word 'poetry,' and I don't like poetry readings, and I usually don't like poets. I would much prefer describing myself and what I do as: I'm kind of a curator, and I'm kind of a night-owl reporter.
Tom Waits / Singer-Songwriter
Curator
Describing
Prefer
Reporter
Word
Poets
Readings
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Before 'Giant,' I had only ever worked with Michael Greif, Michael John LaChiusa and Kate Baldwin in readings. It's really exciting to be blessed with the opportunity to work with so many I would put in the 'genius' book.
Aaron Lazar /
Opportunity
Blessed
Book
Work Opportunity Blessed
Michael
Giant
John
Readings
Worked
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I don't do rehearsal. Some directors prefer to do rehearsal - readings before the actual shooting - but I don't like this process because I think there are certain things that are so spontaneous, and they cannot happen twice.
Wong Kar-Wai / Filmmaker
Process
Rehearsal
Shooting
Spontaneous
Twice
Actual
Prefer
Certain Things
Happen
Readings
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If, for example, all the codons are triplets, then in addition to the correct reading of the message, there are two incorrect readings which we shall obtain if we do not start the grouping into sets of three at the right place.
Francis Crick / Scientist
Messages
Reading
Right Place
Two
Addition
Correct
For Example
Grouping
Incorrect
Obtain
Readings
Sets
Shall
Triplets
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Every single day, authors read at bookstores and libraries - and coffeeshops and bars - all over the country. And these readings are amazing: you get to hear the book in the author's own voice, ask questions, and meet the writer. For free.
Celeste Ng / Writer
Bars
Bookstores
Author
Every Single Day
Libraries
Readings
Single Day
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I was reading poetry to my girlfriends, and they were like, 'You're really good. You should go to some poetry readings or something.' And I eventually went and got a, you know, somewhat of a name for myself and a little bit of a following.
Jill Scott / Singer-Songwriter
Following
Somewhat
Eventually
Girlfriends
Readings
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I'd like to play something classical. I'm in the Strindberg society, and we do readings of Strindberg plays. I'd love to do Nora in 'A Doll's House.' And Chekhov. I have been working back to back on what I call 'regular jobs,' so it's hard to do plays.
Teri Garr / Actress
Chekhov
Classical
Doll
Readings
Regular
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Because food and energy prices are volatile, it is often helpful to look at inflation excluding those two categories - known as core inflation - which is typically a better indicator of future overall inflation than recent readings of headline inflation.
Janet Yellen / Economist
Categories
Core
Helpful
Inflation
Energy Prices
Excluding
Headline
Indicator
Overall
Prices
Readings
Recent
Volatile
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What my character is or how many jails I have lounged in, or wards or walls or wassails, how many lonely-heart poetry readings I have dodged, is beside the point. A man's soul or lack of it will be evident with what he can carve upon a white sheet of paper.
Charles Bukowski / Poet
Evident
Paper
Beside
Carve
Jails
Readings
Sheet
Walls
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My favourite room in my house is easily the top room, which is a bedroom but also a bathroom, with a big, wooden carved bath, two huge fireplaces and a raised bit in the corner for performances. I've had some really lovely parties and poetry readings up there.
Deborah Moggach / Film Writer
Bedroom
Favourite
House
Lovely
Raised
Bit
Bath
Carved
Corner
Easily
Performance
Room
Parties
Readings
Wooden
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My voice is rather quirky. It's abysmally low. People often think I'm putting it on at first. Think drunk Darth Vader. Or Barry White singing country. It suits my dark material. When I do readings, I really play it up and go subterranean. I can make the phone book sound terrifying.
Benjamin Percy / Writer
Quirky
Drunk
Vader
Barry
Darth
Darth Vader
Terrifying
Readings
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I did my doctoral dissertation on the lectionary readings that we use at mass and how you have biblical texts that have been taken out of their original Bible context and put together for mass, and now they form a new text. Out of that new text, there is an interplay of new meaning.
Blase J. Cupich /
Bible
Dissertation
Mass
Context
Readings
Text
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Television and cable have become the new independent films, in a sense, for writers and actors to gravitate towards. That's why I like short films, too; I love doing readings, audio books, working with young filmmakers; anything that keeps you from getting blase about yourself or in a rut.
Campbell Scott / Actor
Audio
Short Films
Cable
Gravitate
Love Yourself New
Independent Films
Readings
Rut
Young Filmmakers
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Like any other person who reads a ton of books, I hate many, many books. Oh, how I hate them. I have performed dramatic readings of the books I hate. I have little hate summaries. I have hate impressions. I can act out, scene by hateful scene, some of these books. I can perform silent hate charades.
Sarah Rees Brennan / Writer
Dramatic
Hate
Hateful
Scene
Silent
Act
Books
Oh
Perform
Impressions
Performed
Readings
Reads
Ton
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I've been surprised at how much an unknown like myself can accomplish just by reaching out to people and pleading my case. Quotes for the book cover, reviews and interviews, readings and radio appearances - all this by simply moving ahead and making contact with folks I thought might enjoy the writing.
Patrick Dewitt / Novelist
Accomplish
Contact
Folks
Interviews
Pleading
Reaching
Reviews
Unknown
Appearances
Cover
Quotes
Readings
Surprised
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What I do when I act and direct is I do a small version, go a little bigger, do a medium one, an over-the-top one, and then even bigger than that. I'll do six readings of the line. And they're not all the same. Just so I know if I was wrong about what I should have done, I luckily have this more subtle version.
Jay Chandrasekhar / Actor
Over The Top
Subtle
Version
Done Know More
Luckily
Medium
Readings
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I would be uncomfortable raising the federal funds rate if readings on wage growth, core consumer prices, and other indicators of underlying inflation pressures were to weaken, if market-based measures of inflation compensation were to fall appreciably further, or if survey-based measures were to begin to decline noticeably.
Janet Yellen / Economist
Compensation
Decline
Inflation
Rate
Uncomfortable
Consumer
Funds
Further
Measures
Pressures
Raising
Readings
Underlying
Wage
Weaken
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