Walt Whitman Quotes
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I became a novelist because of 'Gone With the Wind,' or more precisely, my mother raised me up to be a 'Southern' novelist, with a strong emphasis on the word 'Southern' because 'Gone With the Wind' set my mother's imagination ablaze when she was a young girl growing up in Atlanta.
Pat Conroy
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Dance is something which I like to do, but acting is my passion. I would like to do good and meaty roles.
Nargis Fakhri
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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At first, it's unfamiliar, then it strikes root.
Fernando Pessoa
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The thing about Moby Dick is that, at heart, it's a very simple plot - there's only one white whale in the ocean. When you're a boy growing up in a hostile home, you imagine it's unique: it's happening only to you.
Gavin O'Connor
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Sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting.
Ad Reinhardt
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I always knew that there was something that made me different, and by the time I was in high school, I understood what it was.
Mary Cheney
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When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. It needed four legs of the same length, it had to be the right height and it had to be comfortable.
Mark Haddon
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Saw my reflection, covered in glass. How It reminds me of you.
Pete Yorn
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If we do a little bit of insight into history, how many times have there been people doing hate discourse, blaming everything on a certain group of people. That really is the genesis of genocide, where it kind of sparks.
Gael Garcia Bernal
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We, as communities that are marginalized, need to open up our minds and realize that we should be asking and advocating for more of everyone. Let's get more gay black men; let's get more trans women.
Karamo Brown
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The beautiful uncut hair of graves.
Walt Whitman
