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.
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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 always enjoy impersonating my characters in the first-person singular.
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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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I'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.
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I love my friends and family, but I also love it when they can't find me and I can spend all day reading or walking all alone, in silence, eight thousand miles away from everyone. All alone and unreachable in a foreign country is one my most favorite possible things to be.
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Before 'SNL,' I would do stand-up, opening for Jeff Tweedy. It was worse than bombing in that people were dead silent.
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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.
