Rita Dove Quotes
It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life around my writing.
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I just have that sense this is the reason we got Sandra Day O'Connor on the Court in the first place is because Ronald Reagan was running for President.
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My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.
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I think that when you don't look at the good things around you, that you lose sight of all those good things. And you're not going to enjoy your life.
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In the time I spent with him, Jurgen Klopp was enigmatic, larger than life, and extremely quick-witted. He is quite unique as a football manager in many ways, and that is what makes him so entertaining.
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The mere fact that so many continue to rise, year after year, out of just such conditions as you may think are fatal to your advancement, ought to convince you that you also can conquer your environment.
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Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.
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I'm just so grateful for the 10 years that I had in Sri Lanka when it was in the middle of a war and I was getting shot at, because now and again I remember glimpses of those times, and I just go, 'Wow, I'll never, ever see that again in my life. And I'm never gonna feel that, and I'm never gonna feel for a human being like that.'
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But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.
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If it's accessible by hundreds of millions of people, then it's as mainstream as it gets.
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Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn.
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Any acting is a stretch of the imagination. That's your job. Acting is truth in imaginary circumstances. Acting with green screen or a motion capture stage, you're striving for absolute truth in absolutely imaginary circumstances.
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The history of science is rich in example of the fruitfulness of bringing two sets of techniques, two sets of ideas, developed in separate contexts for the pursuit of new truth, into touch with one another.
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I think people will believe anything about someone they haven't seen for a while.
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You don't have to be a bodybuilder to have strength in your muscles.
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The last book I read was the book I've been rereading most of my life, The Fountainhead.
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I'm the only person that has ever run a principle-based legislative body.
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Shakespeare's taught me that there are more words in the English language than I have got in my head.
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Don't stink up the place with bad acting, if an opportunity comes your way.
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A flexible exchange rate is important, and it shouldn't be artificially restrained because of the needs of the economy.
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The only thing I can't change is the elasticity of my skin.
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God can make good use of all that happens, but the loss is real.
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If i wouldn't have done comedy, I would have been a teacher. I was really good when I took an exploratory teaching class in high school, at getting kids' attention, and delivering lesson plans. Though my principal even told me that this was what I was meant to do. And that being a big-mouth comedian was a waste of time.
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Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication.
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It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life around my writing.
