Rita Dove Quotes
I loved to write when I was a child. I wrote, but I always thought it was something that you did as a child, then you put away childish things.
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The world at large doesn't always make sense to me, and there are safe havens. Linda Manz in 'Out of the Blue' is one of them.
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I love roles that don't really have a template or a paradigm and force me to create using my own imagination... that really, really turns me on.
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I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.
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England is a nation of shopkeepers.
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Society is the body; individuals are its members, its limbs. Just as the various limbs help and co-operate with one another and thus are happy, so each must unite with others in being helpful to all in thought, speech and action... One may see to the good of one's own group, i.e., the group that is immediate to him, and then proceed to others.
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My secret to all casting, and specifically kids, is cast good human beings.
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I think you're lucky if you discover what you really love at a young age. College wasn't something I was going to do. I wanted to keep acting, and I didn't want to go to New York or California and pound the pavement.
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The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
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I never thought about money; otherwise, I would have left aged 26 when Real Madrid and Barcelona wanted me.
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Being multi-disciplined is always a good thing.
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Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.
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I loved the DOS games, Super Nintendo. And I have a very addictive personality, so I recognize now that I just can't engage in that kind of stuff because I'll never stop. So I no longer play any games.
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I've grown up by the beach all my life, and I almost get anxiety if I haven't been swimming for a couple weeks or a month. It kind of builds up, so I try and get out as much as possible.
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One nice thing about making jokes is that you don't have to prove them.
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My agent called me up and said, 'There is a tremendous female lead in the new 'Star Wars' film, and I think you're really going to like it.' The opportunity to play someone determined, who's trying to find her skills as a leader; to be in a fantasy movie; to be able to do a leading female role in a film of that scale - that's very, very rare.
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After graduating in 1973 I went into the programming field.
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When you have your best stuff, it's a lot easier to pitch.
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I don't take on a fight just for a fight. I don't tilt at windmills.
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I work so I don't need to make rent through my songs, and I think if more people engaged with music without needing it to provide for their welfare, you're not beholden to anyone.
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I've always been a very prolific writer.
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Death always seems to be around me.
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Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.
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When I graduated, I was told I was the first Latino to have three graduate degrees from Harvard. And Harvard does something amazing to you. It opens the doors to the world.
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I loved to write when I was a child. I wrote, but I always thought it was something that you did as a child, then you put away childish things.
