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.Rita Dove
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.
Kate Winslet -
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.
Ice Cube -
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.
Mackenzie Davis -
One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
Larry Gelbart -
Why should I say I will retire in three or four years? You retire the very moment you utter those words.
Haile Gebrselassie -
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!
R. Lee Ermey
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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
Victor Hugo -
Jihad is obligatory for the Muslims.
Abu Bakr -
We play rock & roll, but we swing when we play. We want that ongoing flow, that lightness, that forward rush of jazz.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
My dad is an unbelievable entrepreneur who balanced his life as a father and a president of two very successful companies.
Rachel Zoe -
We must take steps to prevent further nuclear weapons development or modernization.
Daisaku Ikeda -
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.
Iain Duncan Smith
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If a film project were available and the timing was right, I might be interested.
Yann Martel -
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.
Lisa Murkowski -
Writers tend to write stories as a kind of holiday between novels, or as preliminary steps towards a novel. Stories just don't often make up a writer's main body of work, and that's not because they don't see the market for it.
James Lasdun -
I can tell you that I can always recognize a Boston song, even if it's in a noisy place. I can hear that it's Boston even before I know what song it is. If a Boston song comes on in a club or somewhere, I notice that it's Boston, and the second thing I notice is what song it is.
Tom Scholz Boston -
I'd really like to visit India and South America. I think India will be a great mix of sightseeing and relaxing, and I've got a feeling it will also be good for one's soul and spirit. And I'd love to go backpacking around South America at some point. I did that in Australia when I was younger, and the camaraderie was great fun.
Emilia Fox -
I am a bit different from the other sprinters because, I would say, I can run many different ways while the other guys they just came on and they can only run one way.
Asafa Powell
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I know when I make a decision, I'm increasing my own personal work day.
Jerry Jones -
If Facebook owns social, if LinkedIn owns business, who owns your health?
Kevin Plank -
It is curious how tyrannical the habit of reading is, and what shifts we make to escape thinking. There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.
James Russell Lowell -
The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.
George Bernard Shaw -
Making your dad happy is - especially for an Italian Catholic girl, I'll tell you - it feels really good.
Lady Gaga -
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.
Rita Dove