Readings Quotes

I am encouraged by the theatricality of (J.R.R. Tolkien`s) readings - full of rhythm and humor and characterization. Without question Gandalf is like Tolkien but then so, I suspected, are Frodo and Aragorn.

I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher.

It makes me believe in fate. In most cases, the readings where I`ve been really bad have usually been the ones where I got the part.

Well, in The Chosen, Danny Saunders, from the heart of his religious reading of the world, encounters an element in the very heart of the secular readings of the world - Freudian psychoanalytic theory.

But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the media and the speed with which people travel the planet.

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.

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.

I`m also doing constant book readings, movies. You name it, I`m doing it.

We used to hang out at Joss`s place Sunday nights and do Shakespeare readings. I got to do my Richard III recently. Then we`d have a few tequilas, sit around the piano and sing. I talked to Joss years ago about doing a Buffy musical, and then finally in the summer he sat down and wrote Once More, With Feeling," episode seven of season six. He`s taken the inaccessible area of musicals - why does everybody keep singing? - and turned it to his advantage. It`s the answer to "Hush," season four`s spellbinding silent episode where nobody could talk. We all sing about the things we`re thinking; musicals are about expressing those emotions that you can`t talk about. It works a real treat." (January 9, 2002)

This outfit called Los Angeles Theatre Works does readings of plays.

I only give line readings. I love line readings - they just all have to be buried. That`s my style of acting. Buried line readings. Buried overacting.

It`s different in Scotland. People who come to readings are more interested in literature as such, but the readership in general is really quite diverse. It`s a cliche, but it`s said that people who read my books don`t read any other books, and you do get that element.

Since the installation of these new automated boxes, we`ve had a delay in getting the proper information for the past month or so, ... In the case that we could not get the proper information, the readings were estimated.

There is no right or wrong reading of Naked Lunch, though some readings are more common, and thus Burroughs` commercial is not the issue.

It`s gratifying that it does; I love to give readings.

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.

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.

I worked probably 25 years by myself, just writing and working, not trying to publish much, not giving readings.

I do a lot of readings.

This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.

(The pope focused on scriptural readings that said God`s love was seen in the) marvels of creation. ... fooled by the atheism that they carry inside of them, imagine a universe free of direction and order, as if at the mercy of chance.