R. K. Milholland Quotes
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There ought to be more grants that go to people in their late twenties and early thirties. That's a crucial age, although it's very hard to judge who is worth supporting and who is not. Looking back on my own life, I see that was the period when I was closest to giving up as a novelist and when I most needed some encouragement.
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I'm not convinced about marriage. Divorce is so easy, and that fact that gay people are not allowed to marry takes much of the meaning out of it. Committing yourself to one person is sacred.
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It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
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For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.
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Peter Wagner, my son, just won the Bel-Air Junior Club Championship. Parred the last three holes. One-putts, up and down. Us Wagners don't hit greens. We chip and putt.
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I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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I'm not very technically minded. I mean, I don't know how to do e-mail on computers.
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What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.
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Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.
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I like movies where you feel like it was actually thought through.
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Arguably Apple's least successful core hardware product in decades, the Apple Watch could have been nursed along, like a terminal patient.
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The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.
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Listen, I'm not a rich kid. I'm a cultured kid; I'm very rich in culture.
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I have to say I wasn't a huge fan of 'Star Wars', and I'm still not, really, but you have to acknowledge that there's a huge fan base for it, and these people are really sweet. You can't stereotype a 'Star Wars' fan.
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The Enron scandal is worthy of the highest level of scrutiny, both because of the enormity of the crimes that may have been committed and because of what the largest bankruptcy in American history has already begun to reveal about the weaknesses in our nation's corporate structures and regulatory oversight.
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We, the women of the Senate, with President Obama by our side, will keep fighting - our shoulders square, our lipstick on - because you deserve equal pay for your hard work.
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It's always a thrill to wear the flag and ride for Canada in any competition, but especially the Olympics.
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Form is, in a way, death. A novelist's obligation is to break free from the form, even though he knows that this will also be seen as artificial and distanced from life.
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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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All that is necessary to paint well is to be sincere.
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I don't always feel His presence. But God's promises do not depend upon my feelings; they rest upon His integrity.
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Death likes it when you play hard to get.
