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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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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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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I don't want to be known as the granddaughter of the Hiltons. I want to be known as Paris.
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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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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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None of the editors I've worked with have ever asked me to pull my punches. They've never asked me to give them anything other than my own interpretation of events.
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I think a nice romantic dinner should be saved for when you and the girl you're dating or seeing have something special and it's a more special occasion.
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I don't want egos and personalities on the set that make it more difficult to make the film. I don't want people who take the focus away from the movie and the ideas behind the movie.
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It is just physics - who can argue with Newton and the first law of thermodynamics?
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If you're going to exude naivete, you can't really... walk out there like it's a Sting show. You can't be that well put together and then have this kind of innocent bravado.
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I never felt I would be part of the international scene for 50 caps in my wildest dreams.
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Personally, I like to yearn a little and long for the next episode. On the other hand, I'm also a glutton. My kids love to dive in and eat whole series at once.
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I don't think I would have been a writer if I hadn't been a mother. I wanted to construct something that contained some of these feelings that I had, some of these discoveries or revelations.
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Isolationism is not leadership.
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When I started studying the issue and issues related to fatherlessness, I realized I had all of them. Fear of intimacy, fear of commitment, poor work ethic, just stuff that you don't have when you don't have a man in your life to look you in the eye and say, "You're good," or "Good job."
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The task counts more than the one who does it.
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America. Shoutout to the men in uniform that protect and serve this country. From sea to shining sea. From one white boy, to all nationalities, we've got to stand together, people.
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I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on.
