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Image, Two of my three siblings are older, so I suppose I learned

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Two of my three siblings are older, so I suppose I learned from them and became a very avid reader at a young age, which I think enough cannot be said for what you can discover through literature.

—Julia Roberts

Image, …no matter how avid they themselves may be for praise and appreciation,

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...no matter how avid they themselves may be for praise and appreciation, people are often niggardly in giving it to others, however merited it is.

—Eleanor Roosevelt

Image, It’s impressive when you’re such a mysterious fictional character that even avid

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It's impressive when you're such a mysterious fictional character that even avid enthusiasts are debating your existence within the mythos.

—Ben Thompson

Image, Gary Speed was honourable, trustworthy and a joy to manage. He was

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Gary Speed was honourable, trustworthy and a joy to manage. He was honest, he was a role model and he was a great bloke. An avid learner, he recognised responsibility and he was always fully committed.

—Howard Wilkinson

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Image, From early on there were two things that filled my life –

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From early on there were two things that filled my life - music and storytelling, both of them provoked by my father. He was a jazz pianist and also a very good storyteller, an avid reader. He passed both those interests on to me.

—Athol Fugard

Image, The Conversation’ was the first film I edited on a flatbed machine

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The Conversation' was the first film I edited on a flatbed machine - a KEM editing machine. I've been using Final Cut or the AVID for 12 years now, so I was interested in looking at this film and seeing if I could tell if it had been edited the old way.

—Walter Murch

Image, Though they themselves might be as surprised as their parents and teachers

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Though they themselves might be as surprised as their parents and teachers to hear it said, adolescents--these poignantly thin- skinned and vulnerable, passionate and impulsive, starkly sexual and monstrously self-absorbed creatures--are, in fact, avid seekers of moral authenticity. They wish above all to achieve some realistic power over the real world in which they live while at the same time remaining true to their values and ideals.

—Louise J. Kaplan

Image, I must suppose that reading wonderful writers may, inadvertently, teach an avid

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I must suppose that reading wonderful writers may, inadvertently, teach an avid reader a great deal -- not only about life and other matters, but about how to write. Therefore doubtless I have benefited from frequent immersions in the glowing genius of others. It would be nice to think so. (I do actually think so). But to improve my skills will never be the prompting force of my reading -- that's just literary lust.

—Tanith Lee

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Image, In fiction, I exercise my nosiness. I am as curious as my

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In fiction, I exercise my nosiness. I am as curious as my cats, and indeed that has led to trouble often enough and used up several of my nine lives. I am an avid listener. I am fascinated by other people's lives, the choices they make and how that works out through time, what they have done and left undone, what they tell me and what they keep secret and silent, what they lie about and what they confess, what they are proud of and what shames them, what they hope for and what they fear. The source of my... Read more »

—Marge Piercy

Image, I am an avid runner, mainly on weekends.

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I am an avid runner, mainly on weekends.

—Patrick Wilson

Image, I was a really avid bowler when I was a teenager. I

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I was a really avid bowler when I was a teenager. I had about a 210-220 average. I had blisters on my fingers.

—Dennis Quaid

Image, I love scuba diving. I’m an avid diver. And, there’s this beautiful

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I love scuba diving. I'm an avid diver. And, there's this beautiful world that's more incredible than any CGI film we could ever make, that we're destroying, for what? It's heartbreaking to me.

—Blake Lively

Image, I’m a conservative. I was an avid supporter of Ronald Reagan; I thought he was fabulous.

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I'm a conservative. I was an avid supporter of Ronald Reagan; I thought he was fabulous.

—Shannen Doherty

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Image, Hitler was an avid reader, a passion that stayed with him through

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Hitler was an avid reader, a passion that stayed with him through all the phases of his career.

—Volker Ullrich

Image, One can say this in general of men: they are ungrateful, disloyal,

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One can say this in general of men: they are ungrateful, disloyal, insincere and deceitful, timid of danger and avid of profit...Love is a bond of obligation that these miserable creatures break whenever it suits them to do so; but fear holds them fast by a dread of punishment that never passes.

—Niccolo Machiavelli

Image, I am an avid reader! As for writing, I might – someday. But we’ll have to wait and see.

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I am an avid reader! As for writing, I might - someday. But we'll have to wait and see.

—Zosia Mamet

Image, I would not describe myself as an avid jazz fan and I

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I would not describe myself as an avid jazz fan and I am not a jazz musician myself. However, that is not to say that jazz does not play a vital and important role in my life.

—Nat Wolff