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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Don't stink up the place with bad acting, if an opportunity comes your way.
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A voice or a song can be so comforting to someone who really needs it.
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There's no bread, let 'em eat cakeThere's no end to what they'll takeFlaunt the fruits of noble birthWash the salt into the earth - Bastille Day (1975)
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The best thing about writing speculative fiction is the opportunity to satirize the whole wide world. The America in 'A Better World' isn't ours, but it's pretty close, so I could lampoon everything from partisan politics to the cult of celebrity to our general disaffection. To me, all that is the point.
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My mind wanders terribly. I'm not wholly annoyed by my daydreaming as it has been immense use to me as regards imaginative thought, but it doesn't help when it comes to concentration. And writing needs concentration - lots of it.
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Well, you know, Thomas Jefferson, who was the author of the Declaration of Independence said he wouldn't have any atheists in his cabinet because atheists wouldn't swear an oath to God. That was Jefferson and we have never had any Muslims in the cabinet.
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I used to teach dance lessons.
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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.
