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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  Baha'u'llah
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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.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
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• One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.

  

  Larry Gelbart
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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.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Why
  • 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!

  

  R. Lee Ermey
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• Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

  

  Victor Hugo
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  • Love
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• Jihad is obligatory for the Muslims.

  

  Abu Bakr
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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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  • Want
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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.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Life
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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.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Children
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• If a film project were available and the timing was right, I might be interested.

  

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  • Film
  • Right
  • Timing

• I always enjoy impersonating my characters in the first-person singular.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
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• I never do, I don't even go to the retrospectives.

  

  Walter Hill
  • Never
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• To illustrate what I mean, an apt dancer may be in thorough unison with the others in that particular group, and at the same time reveal a difference in dancing temperament, rhythm or technique; she may phrase, accentuate or actually interpret differently.

  

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• You can't build an adaptable organization without adaptable people - and individuals change only when they have to, or when they want to.

  

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• This is love, moving to where the money is, and all the while a volcano or an ex-girlfriend might blow the whole thing to hell, as the Americans say. As everybody says.

  

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• I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do, but now that I am older I find that I don't want to do them.

  

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• There ain't no sort of orse that I ain't bred, and no sort of dorg. Orses and dorgs is some men's fancy. They're wittles and drink to me - lodging, wife, and children - reading, writing, and Arithmetic - snuff, tobacker, and sleep.

  

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• Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Great
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• The senior bankers have obviously decided that it is in their financial interest to repeatedly violate the law.

  

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  • Interest
  • Senior

• 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
  • Reading
  • Writer
  • Themselves