It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
Sometimes you're reading something, and you don't know it will be important in your life. You're reading this script, and you start to get involved. It's not an intellectual experience.
In time I began to understand that it's when you start writing that you really find out what you don't know and need to know.
I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.
I don't know how you can understand other people or yourself if you haven't read a lot of books. I just don't think you're equipped to deal with the demands and decisions of life, particularly in your dealings with other people.
You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.
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.
It's not a case of: 'Read this book and then you'll think differently. I've written this book, and I don't think differently.
If you don't understand your limitations you won't achieve much in your life.
If you don't read it, you don't know. I mean, that's why I have a PR team. They read it and tell me if there's something, and that keeps you focused. I know my family and me well enough; why do I need to read about myself? I'm not going to change, I'm very stubborn in this way. I am what I am.