Jimmy Carter Quotes
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Proposing inner-life solutions to our political and economic catastrophes is something done, say the critics, only by people who've spent more time in la-la land than in the 'real world.'
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There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.
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To do a really good interview, you have to be truly interested in the person.
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A lot of people are intimated by art, but it's something to be revered beyond criticism.
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It's hard to write a comedy sketch.
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I will not promote other people's songs big time. I will just mention that I produced the song to get the credit I think I deserve.
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My voice is who I am, who I was when I was 3, and who I am going to be when I am 90 years old. When I hit the stage and people do not know who I am, they automatically assume, before I open my mouth, I am going to sing a Bob Marley song!
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To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.
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Yes, Socialists should defend their country in great historical crises.
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Visit any bookshop in Europe, and the shelves are filled with English novels and non-fiction books in translation - while British bookshops stock mainly English and American works.
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I will necessarily say what it seems to me, given that I'm me.
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There's really no way to fix this and still keep Perl pathologically eclectic.
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Become addicted to constant and never-ending self-improvement.
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It took me twenty years to get Steven Parrino's work. From the time I first saw his art, in the mid-eighties, I almost always dismissed it as mannered, Romantic, formulaic, conceptualist-formalist heavy-metal boy-art abstraction.
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People are afraid of everything.
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I know exactly what that's all about being in a male dominated sport. Sometimes it just takes one person to step out, to be a pioneer, a trailblazer, really.
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The more afraid we are of the shadow of racism, the more conscious we might become of our own unsuspected biases.
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Free enterprise is essentially a formula not just for wealth creation, but for life satisfaction.
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I think that Eric Holder has an animosity, a genuine hostility, toward local law enforcement - specifically toward white police officers. He truly believes that every white police officer is a stone-cold racist.
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I've always wanted to be a mom. I had a great relationship with mine. I'm ready to pass on to my child all the great love that my mom had for me.
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A book sometimes seems to impose a through-line to life that real life doesn't actually have.
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I'm not going to tell people how to write, but we do have a skill set, and the more we put ourselves out into the world as poets, as a sort of poet of the tribe, as representatives of metaphor, and try to claim space for metaphor in the inner life, that's going to be important and be helpful to poetry and bring a tension for poets writing about whatever they choose.
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I am no big shot. I am not anybody's boss. I want to be everybody's servant.
