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		I'm trying to write poems that involve beginning at a known place, and ending up at a slightly different place. I'm trying to take a little journey from one place to another, and it's usually from a realistic place, to a place in the imagination.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Billy Collins 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		Sometimes when I'm going to the supermarket to get the coffee and cat litter, I get freaked out and see all these people staring, and you turn around and there's, like, 40 people all looking at you... and when you go around the corner, they're all following you! You start freaking out like a trapped animal. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
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		The Doobie Brothers are one of my favorites of all time. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
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		I started dealing with weapons on the first show I ever did, 'The Inside,' but I didn't really do any physical stuff until 'Alias.' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Rachel Nichols 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I think success is very hard work, so, you know, if you work hard and you have some success, you have to give up something. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Irina Shayk 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Ilan Stavans 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
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		My business issues are just that - business - and I deal with them like they are business. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Faith Evans 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I was in Nashville quite a bit when I shot 'Nashville,' and I was in Los Angeles when I shot in 'Supergirl'. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Laura Benanti 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I have lived the life of the entrepreneur, and so I know the pain they are feeling. I know the daily ups and downs they go through. You know, they have their highs and lows sometimes within a matter of hours in a day. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Ram Shriram 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		A man is as alive as he can communicate. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				L. Ron Hubbard 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Oscar Robertson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Sochi will be my third Olympics, and I'm coming into these games in a stronger position than I've been in years past. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
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		Let's just focus on unity and love. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Pam Bondi 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		A lot of the Republicans wanted exactly what Barack Obama wanted, exactly what Nancy Pelosi wanted, exactly what Harry Reid wanted, which is to raise the debt ceiling, but they wanted to be able to tell what they view as their foolish, gullible constituents back home they didn't do it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Ted Cruz 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Carl Sandburg 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Pope John Paul II 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If this life is not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained for the universe by success, it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will. But it feels like a real fight. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				William James 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I'm trying to write poems that involve beginning at a known place, and ending up at a slightly different place. I'm trying to take a little journey from one place to another, and it's usually from a realistic place, to a place in the imagination. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Billy Collins