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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A writer has a difficult fate, but a Jewish writer has an especially difficult fate. His soul is torn; he lives on two streets with three languages. It is a misfortune to live on this sort of 'border,' and that is what I have experienced.
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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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My mother cared a lot about clothes. It was a point of friction because when I was a teenager, and I only wanted to wear my father's shirts, and I never wanted to wear makeup, she would say: 'Put on lipstick.' That was her thing.
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The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.
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Not a word of my writing has ever been changed by another person's hands, and I don't think many screenwriters can say that.
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Every year I used to write a musical inspired by John Waters, and I would get all my friends together and put on this perverse, emotional, tragic musical.
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I love and I'm intrigued by what history does to people and to subjects that matter.
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What writing does is to reveal.
