Rita Dove Quotes
I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on.
Quotes to Explore
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Becoming a mom made me more contentious about expressing my true taste.
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Baking is my pastime. I just love creating things. But it's not what I want to do for a living. Acting is what I want to do.
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When the whole world reads your books, is there any other happiness for a writer? I am happy that my books are read in 57 languages. But I am focused on Istanbul not because of Istanbul but because of humanity. Everyone is the same in the end.
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I have what is probably the largest big bike collection in the city: a Fat Boy, a sportser Harley Davidson and two Yamahas. All these are 1200cc-plus bikes. Riding these bikes is something I still do and some trekking as well.
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I'm really silly. That's the thing that people don't get.
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We're looking for people out there who have demonstrated that they are leaders, have track records of achievement, and want to be part of a force... of a much larger force of determined people who want to bring about, ultimately, institutional change.
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Actively deciding to give to causes that move you deeply is far more fulfilling than the momentary gratification derived from signing a check and mailing it to a nonprofit about which you know little more than what's on the brochure they sent you.
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A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
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When trying to innovate, most people stop after 10-15 possibilities, failing to recognize that their first ideas are usually the most obvious ones.
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Manouri is a Greek ewes' milk cheese that's light in colour and texture. It's fresh and milky, and goes well with other subtle flavours.
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I don't want to be known as the granddaughter of the Hiltons. I want to be known as Paris.
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Nothing is more precious than peace, by which all war, both in Heaven and Earth, is brought to an end.
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I'm a little weird that way. I don't really know how to express my happiness.
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Then he took me off Jeannie and he gave me Millie the Model. That was a big break for me. It wasn't doing to well and somehow when I got on it became quite successful.
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Husbands and wives, have fun with each other. I'm convinced it makes all the difference in the world.
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Ever since my childhood, I had seen my father carrying so many bags- suitcases with false bottoms , leather satchels or overnight bags, even those black briefcases that gave him a false air of repectability…. And I never knew just what was in them. ( 52 )
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「吾任天下之智力，以道御之，無所不可．」
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Ninety-nine people out of a hundred have not seriously considered what they mean by the term 'exist' nor how a thing qualifies itself to be labelled real.
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Algunas cosas se hacen tan nuestras que las olvidamos.
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I always loved movies, but I never thought I would presume to be a screenwriter and definitely not a director.
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'The 25th Hour' came out of the decision - a really very conscious decision - that I needed a story set within a compressed time frame because that would help focus the story.
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Childbirth calls into question our very existence, requiring an expectant couple to confront not only new life but death, pain, fear and, most of all, change.
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Things were a lot simpler in Detroit. I didn't care about anything but boyfriends.
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I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on.
