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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My vocation is to write and I have known this for a long time. I hope I won't be misunderstood; I know nothing about the value of the things I am able to write. I know that writing is my vocation. When I sit down to write I feel extraordinarily at ease, and I move in an element which, it seems to me, I know extraordinarily well; I use tools that are familiar to me and they fit snugly in my hands.
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While there's capitalism, there'll be socialism, because there is always a response to injustice.
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New York is really the place to be; to go to New York, you're going to the center of the world, the lion's den.
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And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.
