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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To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.
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To see that 180, it feels like the biggest backstab that you could possibly feel.
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Writing is a fearsome but grand vocation—potentially healing but likewise deadly. I wouldn’t trade my life for the world.
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The ideal reader's the same, and I suppose this person has never had a face or a gender or an age. It's just some kind of unknown other who will be sympathetic and read each word carefully and understand what I'm writing about. I suppose every writer feels this.
