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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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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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 man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.
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Darkness might seem to obscure what's happening, but I find it's always pretty revelatory: it brings out the awe in us, the fear in us, the excitement of exploring the hidden or unknown. It seems to conceal, but it really shines a light on what we want, what we need, and what we'll do to get it. Especially when we think no one can see us.
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Perhaps because my town was so naturally gothic in its architecture and relative isolation - the roads often closed in winter - my stories tended toward the ghostly and the creepily suspenseful right from the get-go.
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I know exercise is important, but I hate it!
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In Hyderabad, I suppose my height does pique people's interest, but it's not like it's unacceptable. If you are confident about what you are doing, height doesn't make a difference. You can't be perfect in everything, you know!
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The nice thing about my job being CSO at Facebook is that it is well understood here that there is not a trade-off between the trust people have in us and our growth.
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You don't disrupt genius at work.
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My job now, as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, is to take this process forward, and that I'm determined to do, whatever old clippings you dig out and whatever old quotes you put before me.
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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.
