Rita Dove Quotes
People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me, what they think a poet laureate should do. I found that immensely valuable.
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Agents are still asking for millions of dollars for actors that don't sell one ticket.
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Ask God for what you want, but you cannot ask if you are not asking for a right thing. When you draw near to God, you cease from asking for things."Your Father knows what things you have need of, before you ask him." Then, why ask? That you may get to know Him.
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Our God has boundless resources. The only limit is in us. Our asking, our thinking, our praying are too small. Our expectations are too limited.
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There's no point in asking focus groups. I go down the pub and hear about it there.
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You can judge the validity of any idea or concept by asking Is this true for me?
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you once liked me, didn't you?, he asked. LIKED you- I LOVED you. Everybody loved you. You could've had anybody you wanted for the asking.
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It is always worth while asking a question, though it is not always worth while answering one.
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She was a ghost in a strange house that overnight had become immense and solitary and through which she wandered without purpose, asking herself in anguish which one of them was deader: the man who had died or the woman he had left behind.
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To the folks asking how they can become a comics writer if Marvel doesn't accept submissions... YOU WRITE COMICS!!
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This merger is immensely attractive to us, because there was no overlap in customers or core competencies. We are now able to invest in more cities by increasing staff, sales and services.
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Once the law starts asking questions, there's no stopping them.
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It would be asking too much to want to sell only to connoisseurs - that way starvation lies.
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I began to realize that thinking itself is nothing but the process of asking and answering questions.
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That comes too late that comes for the asking.
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What is school for? If you're not asking that, you're wasting time and money.
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Sign your work...If you're not proud of it, don't ship it. If you are, sign your work and own the results. We'll know who to thank. If you work for a place where work goes unsigned (internally, in particular) it's worth asking why.
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All we know about the world teaches us that the effects of A and B are always different-in some decimal place-for any A and B. Thus asking "are the effects different?" is foolish.
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I think the problem with polemics is that it's general and it's lazy. When you say, "This is bad," that's a general thing. We're more interested in asking the question.
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The thing that I like about being me is that everybody gets a different feeling from me.
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To be truly happy, you need a clear sense of direction. You need a commitment to something bigger and more important than yourself. You need to feel that your life stands for something, that you are somehow making a valuable contribution to your world.
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No matter how your world falls apart-and honey, that's what happens: we all build ourselves a world, and then it falls apart-but no matter how that happens, you still have the kind heart you've had since you were a child, and that's all that really counts.
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Let us remember that sorrow alone is the creator of great things.
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People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me, what they think a poet laureate should do. I found that immensely valuable.
