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 voice or a song can be so comforting to someone who really needs it.
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Everything that I do I hear and then I go with my hands, and since I use my hands for both piano and guitar that is kind of hands-on.
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In many points in history films and filmmakers have been banned for political reasons- that's how annoying they can be to oppressing systems, how dangerous.
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I've always been drawn to writing historical characters. The best stories are the ones you find in history.
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I found out that I was illegal when I was 16. I'm gay. I'm Filipino.
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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.
