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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Women can be powerful, graceful, and complex, with the ability to make any choice they desire.
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When I was growing up I loved reading historical fiction, but too often it was about males; or, if it was about females, they were girls who were going to grow up to be famous like Betsy Ross, Clara Barton, or Harriet Tubman. No one ever wrote about plain, normal, everyday girls.
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Superman was my first comic back in the '50s; that was me under the bedspread with the flashlight reading comic books.
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The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again, pronounce a text, Cry hem; and reading what they never wrote Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene!
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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.
