When I decided to take writing seriously, I did a lot of reading and analyzing of the books I liked, and came up with what I thought were pretty sound plotting and structure basics.
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Our hope is that the elementary reading of comics will lead to the joy of reading good books,
Brian threw the ball real well, ... He was very accurate today and I thought he did his best job of reading and taking what the defense gave us because they played us a little bit different than we thought they would coverage-wise, dropped guys a little deeper, blitzed us more on first down. So they had a pretty good plan coming in and we had to adjust a little bit.
As long as we can run, I'll take pass balls or balls in the dirt. We spend time in practice working on reading the ball in the dirt and moving up, today we had some kids do that.
Reading their books over and over again, people continue making mistakes they are so proud of their religious robes. But what is the use of bathing at sacred shrines of pilgrimage, when the filth of stubborn pride is within the mind
I don't think anyone wants a reader to be completely lost - certainly not to the point of giving up - but there's something to be said for a book that isn't instantly disposable, that rewards a second reading.
Reading is a basic tool in the living of the good life.
My job is about the most fun thing I do, but I have a broad set of interests, going places, reading things, doing things.
The theory on my part is to read reading is the answer. Read anything that you can get your hands on. I would try to make sure that the author has something to say. Take a wide selection of authors old, new, prose, poets, novels, epics, and all that stuff. .. Think about it and find something to talk about.
Reading the people's lips 'Where's the food Where's water' ... They were there for four days. I mean, drop something out of the sky. Fly helicopters over and drop something, whatever you have to do. That's what killed me, man. I'm cried out. I'm just cried out.
It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect, but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is in part simply from the amount of reading and learning that I acquired along the way.
He has my mind thinking about all 22 people on the field, everybody, the safeties, the D-line. Before I get in my stance, the first thing I do is look over the field, just observe everything about me. Reading everything.
I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.
Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating, as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which make books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.
This new display technology allows for long immersive reading, the type of which you wouldn't want to do on a computer screen. It's very close to looking at the printed page.
That's not what the Florida Supreme Court said. That's not the only reading of the Florida Supreme Court and I don't think it's the best reading.
The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
We had Cathy over from Oahu to read in 2004, and not only was the event well attended but her reading was riveting. After sharing her excellent poetry, she engaged in a very interesting talk-story session with the audience, and then signed books and met audience members one-on-one. It was such a successful event that we knew we wanted to have her back again.
I felt that, all things being equal, he'd go back to Boston. As the process went about, reading the newspapers, seeing that their offer was at three or four years, I thought, 'I have to personally talk to Johnny myself.' I thought we had to bring this to a halt, not let this drag out.
My free time at home is usually spent emailing, listening to music, reading and talking on the phone. I wish I was on the phone less, but I have been fortunate to stay in touch with so many incredible friends.
With the question of the effect of a poem, the topic of investigation shifts from that of textual autonomy to textual reception - to the issue of what we actually look for or find in reading a poem.
And I ride horses, swim, do a lot of reading, writing.
We are excited at the prospect of reading the entire Bible and having someone explain it to us.
PEOPLE are experience rich and theory poor. People who are busy doing things as opposed to people who are busy sitting around, like me, reading and having coffee in coffee shops don't have opportunities to kind of collect and organize their experiences and make sense of them.
It's really a time to explore the unknown. Children spend more time with parents, parents with each other, people get outside and students recognize they're studying more and better, and doing more reading.
One feels like crawling on all fours after reading your work.
I think a reading of the statute supports that it has to pay something for on-reservation children.
Maxims and aphorisms, let us remember that wisdom is the true salt of literature, and the books that are most nourishing are richly stored with it, and that is the main object to seek in reading books.
We are in the business of driving drugs out of Reading, not people.
We do a lot of reading. I've got a stack of old Irish cookbooks from my mom, and basically you tweak it from there.
Once I made a couple of shots, guys started looking for me. When it was my opportunity to run off some screens, I think I did a pretty good job of reading where the defense was going and gave myself some time to get off some shots.
Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
One of the things we know is that, frequently, it's a reading deficiency that is keeping kids from being able to do more rigorous coursework.
Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties, but you must fall in love with poems.
Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene.
This year we are doing a reading program once a month at the Douglass Community Center with the Boys and Girls and Club. Or we help mothers that are going back to work.
There is a wonder in reading Braille that the sighted will never know: to touch words and have them touch you back.
Americans spend an average of 29 hours a week watching television ... which means in a typical life span we devote 13 uninterrupted years to our TV sets ... Cutting down just an hour a day would provide extra years of life for music and family, exercise and reading, conversation and coffee.
But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the American classics like Twain who taught me at an early age that ordinary lives of ordinary people can be made into high art.
What I was reading was already part of my psyche, but finally someone else was saying it's okay to walk alone.
He is a fantastic player. He is just a genius on the field. He has such a great mind for it, reading plays and anticipating what's going to happen. He is one step above everyone else who is trying to make a plan.
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
Reading is a wonderful way to bond with newborns, and encouraging early reading is the ultimate goal. We want to help people in our community develop a lifelong love of learning and, maybe in the process, we can contribute a little to family bonding.
If you are dyslexic, your eyes work fine, your brain works fine, but there is a little short circuit in the wire that goes between the eye and the brain. Reading is not a fluid process.
I am so sick of reading about another car bomb, another suicide bomber, another 10, 20, 30, 70, 100 people dead in a day, both Americans and Iraqis.
People looking at advertisements or reading their local newspapers would have had no idea that what they were reading was bought and paid for with their tax dollars.
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age
I was always the kid in school that teachers were getting after to be quiet. My report card had math, A, reading, A, spelling, A, science, A, conduct, F. I was always talking to somebody. They would always take me and put me over in a corner by myself.
We told him to pump fake and go. It's a very delicate thing because the worst thing you can do is start putting hesitation in a shooter's mind. It's learning, reading, being in that situation numerous times.