Rita Dove Quotes
If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer.
Quotes to Explore
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I was the kid who never won the races. I never jumped the highest. I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.
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With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.
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I'm not a runner, and I always dreamed about just throwing on my sneakers and really knocking everyone's socks off with my joy of traversing the world by foot.
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One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
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Why should I say I will retire in three or four years? You retire the very moment you utter those words.
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
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Jihad is obligatory for the Muslims.
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We play rock & roll, but we swing when we play. We want that ongoing flow, that lightness, that forward rush of jazz.
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My dad is an unbelievable entrepreneur who balanced his life as a father and a president of two very successful companies.
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We must take steps to prevent further nuclear weapons development or modernization.
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That thing, 'You must stay together for the kids', is out of fashion but is right. It's not arguing parents that children don't like, it is having one parent.
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If a film project were available and the timing was right, I might be interested.
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I believe in my writing.
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'Here's my man! It doesn't have to stay out and party with his guys!' 'Here, let me see that...It doesn't seem to be able to pick up the fucking check, does it?'
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Trejo is one of the oldest boxing gyms in Cuba; it's outdoor, and every great champion the country has produced has passed through and was forged in the open air.
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To most Alaskans, Clinton is remembered as being the one individual who has shut Alaska down by vetoing ANWR when we successfully moved it through the Congress.
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A movie is a certain thing by definition. There's nothing wrong with knocking out a good genre picture.
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Focus on the long term, and always do what's right to grow the company and not make short-term decisions. And outlast everyone one.
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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
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I'm very impatient, and if I get a new piece of technology, no matter what it is - I recently got the iPhone, which is very exciting - I can't be doing with reading manuals. I want it to work immediately and to do what I want it to do.
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When I was in the first grade I was afraid of the teacher and had a miserable time in the reading circle, a difficulty that was overcome by the loving patience of my second grade teacher. Even though I could read, I refused to do so.
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Many years later I was told that the great specialist had admitted to friends of his that he had altered his treatment of neurasthenia since reading The Yellow Wallpaper. It was not intended to drive people crazy, but to save people from being driven crazy, and it worked.
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If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer.
