Rita Dove Quotes
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So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.
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During my childhood, I was surrounded by actors, and all I remember is they were fun to be around. That kind of sticks.
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Frankly speaking, it's only the script that matters to me the most. If I like the script, then I just commit to myself and go ahead with it. But I also look at the commitment and confidence of the director of the film because it's him who will shape the film.
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I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.
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When Scorsese or Coppola cast celebrities in their work, it goes without question.
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Girls shouldn't drink because their bodies are not made for drinking and smoking.
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I'll talk about these things, but it's just, you know, you only get so much time and I'm much more interested in what I'm going to be doing next year than in something I did 10 years ago.
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If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
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Fashion is killing women's body image of themselves.
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Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis. The most exciting letters I received were from people in places like that.
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I think people will believe anything about someone they haven't seen for a while.
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There's always ideas buzzing around, but it's whether they actually end up materialising into a song.
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I love 'Homeland.' I think it's such a well-done, well-acted TV show.
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The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced.
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I'm pretty goofy. I really do like to sing and dance in real life. I'm a rhythmic person. I love comedy; I love making people laugh. That's my brand.
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People don't talk to me the way they would other people. They kind of look at me, but they never come over. It makes me feel like there's something wrong with me.
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A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.
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When you play a guitar for a long time, you get your hand oils in there; it starts feeling good and behaving, and you just don't want to mess with that.
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What he had yearned to embrace was not the flesh but a down spirit, a spark, the impalpable angel that inhabits the flesh.
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We don't go into a market without a chance of a 40 percent share and sustainable differentiation. We wouldn't get into wiring oil rigs if we didn't believe we could get 40 percent.
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I did some writing for that movie. The remake of Planet of the Apes. I didn't write the script. But I wrote some lines that they ended up... not using. ... I wrote one line. I thought it would've been perfect. I don't know if anyone saw the movie. It's the scene where the ape general comes in. And they're trying to decide if they should attack right there, or wait until a little later. And I wrote: "Man these bananas are good!" But they didn't use it. I did all of that research.
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On Earth, men are seen as superior because of their physical strength, but it means nothing in space, where there is no gravity.
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What writing does is to reveal.
