Mary Oliver Quotes
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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The character I play is a wonderful compilation of things I hate about myself and things I love about myself and things that I've invented to make her even more interesting than me.
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I'm very obsessed with 'The Real Housewives' franchise. It's a bad obsession.
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The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival.
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As the years go by, I've added a few pounds on, and I like it. I like it that I look a little softer.
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When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you're painting it and white is never as white.
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The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.
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You can't be preachy - kids are allergic to messages.
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There's a classic element that all good Disney movies have. It really comes down to the storytelling, I think. It manages to push all of these buttons inside of us; there's a sentimentality.
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If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.
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I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
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If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means 'The road is good.'
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Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'
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I am an arm hitter. When you snap the bat with your wrists just as you meet the ball, you give the bat tremendous speed for a few inches of its course. The speed with which the bat meets the ball is the thing that counts.
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Just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.
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A lot of bloggers seem to be socially inadequate, pimpled, single, slightly seedy, bald, cauliflower-nosed young men sitting in their mother's basements and ranting. They are very angry people.
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I'm someone who needs more sleep than average, and I'm quite jealous of people who need only five or six hours and they're good to go.
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The strongest democracies flourish from frequent and lively debate, but they endure when people of every background and belief find a way to set aside smaller differences in service of a greater purpose.
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The supreme object of life is to live. Few people live. It is true life only to realize one's own perfection, to make one's every dream a reality.
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I learn a lot about my poems when I read them by the way people respond to them.
