Delloreese Patricia Early (Della Reese) Quotes
Sometimes I think the choir gets a little ticked with me because I haven't sung in a long time and I can sing.
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When I was in my early 20s, I studied tae kwon do and hapkido. I earned brown belts in both of them.
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I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.
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Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.
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The first president I met was L. B. J.
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Because the nights bring the threat of invasion and terror to the villages, thousands of children in northern Uganda have become night commuters, leaving the nightmare of capture behind for the safety of the city.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'
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I like '50s and '60s American art. I have 85 or 90 Warhols.
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Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.
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I don't know anyone who's suffered lung cancer.
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I'm such a boots-jeans-tops-blazer girl.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.
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The Fiction Writer's Co-op has 51 members, from celebrated NYT bestsellers to promising newcomers, and a waiting list.
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I'm parodied as being some right-wing fundamentalist extremist, it just isn't true. The parody doesn't reflect reality.
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Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
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To be a writer you have to be out in the world, you have to risk yourself in the world, you have to be immersed in the world, you have to go out looking for it. This becomes harder as you get older because there's less energy, the days are shorter for older people and it's not so easy to go out and immerse oneself in the world outside.
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I really feel that New York City is the greatest city in the world.
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Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.
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I still have a reputation as an eccentric. But the fact is that audiences probably mix up my roles with me as a person.
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I live in a dumb house. Which is not to say that I don't love its quirky charm, its drafty windows and leaky fireplaces and an electrical system that protests when too many people are trying to vacuum and microwave at the same time. But charm is not always user-friendly.
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A skyscraper is at the same time a triumph of the machine and a tremendous emotional experience, almost breath-taking. Not merely its height but its mass and proportions are the result of an emotion, as well as of calculation.
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Cats have intercepted my footsteps at the ankle for so long that my gait, both at home and on tour, has been compared to that of a man wading through low surf.
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Sometimes I think the choir gets a little ticked with me because I haven't sung in a long time and I can sing.
