Cate Marvin Quotes
I consider poetry my vocation, not my "career." My career is as a university professor; that's what pays the bills.
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What I'm concerned about is making sure that every single time somebody who grew up with us goes off to a different platform or a different device, we're going to be there with a Univision-branded product of some kind.
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The world needs new leadership, but the new leadership is about working together.
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Religion and slavery are incompatible.
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As an athlete, you are literally programmed to endure a specific amount of pain.
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That's the whole point of writing to me - I put my characters under incredible duress, and from that comes their truth. In a way, I'm using them to try to find my own answers in life.
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All the stories I write come from someone I've met or some anecdote I've heard.
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When man can "wish away worrying," every desire will be instantly fulfilled.
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Doubt means don't. Don't move. Don't answer. Don't rush forward.
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It is one of the biggest, best sellers of all time.
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And I spilled gravy on my Carolina sweater, because I am alive.
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I think I can achieve more outside the political arena.
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Money talks — but credit has an echo.
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We lived in a neighborhood that was too rich for us. When I was young, I had to deliver groceries to the homes of the kids I went to school with. I had to go to the back doors to make the deliveries. It was embarrassing. That was one thing out of a hundred.
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The only thing you live to regret are the risks you didn't take
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It is always wise to remember that others will survive even if we are not there taking care of them. I found out that I feel so much better when I take an hour a day, just to take care of me and love myself. It keeps me from feeling so put upon by everything and everybody and helps me get through the day. By taking my hour early in the morning, I feel like I get my love first and I get it when I am at my best.
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If I like the story and it's well written, and it's a character I want to play and they'll pay me, then I decide to do it.
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I like to think the Meat Puppets pay tribute to our chaos master, Gary Russell, every night. After all, as another famous puppet once said, "there is no try..."
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I consider poetry my vocation, not my "career." My career is as a university professor; that's what pays the bills.
