Alice Fulton Quotes
Each poet creates an expatriate space, a slightly skewed domain where things are freshly felt because they are freshly said.
Quotes to Explore
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Everybody feels better about himself, his community, and his country if employers are paying workers well. Economics, though, teaches that if every employer is pressured to raise wages, some labor will be priced out of the market.
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I love to cook. But I have some food allergies, so I have to contend with those.
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It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?
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There is more to life than increasing its speed.
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Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
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If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My most productive hours are between midnight and five.
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I believe in 'soulmates,' especially growing up and seeing how much my parents loved each other. They always said that they had been married in past lives, too.
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It's better to make fun of yourself because you've always got someone around to make fun of, and they can't sue you.
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I am the worlds laziest writer.
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I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
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And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.
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Form the habit early in life of leaving your business at the store or wherever you may be employed. Never carry it home to mar the peace of your family; if you do, you will soon drive out the sunshine.
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Dogma not only blinds its protagonist, but it muzzles all other opposition.
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I'm predisposed to never be in pure celebration mode.
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I have nothing to do with Donald Trump.
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I'm sure that had I not been a coach, I would have been some form of a teacher.
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Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old.
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I was a child, and my mother was psychotic. She loved me, but I didn't really feel I had a mother. And when you live with somebody who is paranoid and thinks you're trying to kill them all the time, you tend to feel a little betrayed.
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I think I did experience culture shock. When I first arrived in Boston, I was basically told to go home. "Homeboy" is what they called me - very funny. I didn't take offense. I just thought, This is exactly where I want to be. The pace was different. Houston is a sprawling city. Boston is just crammed into the size of a postage stamp.
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Women want a man who can say I love you every night and prove it every day.
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Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community.
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The word inventors have to create a new term to describe how I felt when I learned that 'Refund' was on the shortlist for the Frank O'Connor International Story prize - Excited, thrilled, honored, none of them quite do it.
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My mother gave up a good part of her career to look after me.
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Each poet creates an expatriate space, a slightly skewed domain where things are freshly felt because they are freshly said.
