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My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head.

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I earned two Emmy nominations for writing, and two of the shows I had written were nominated for best in their category.

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There hasn't been a day in my life since I started Latin in ninth grade that I haven't benefited by the lives of the ancients.

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All creatures tread across the rubble of ruined civilizations. The trick is to keep moving. No animal ever goes about dispensing shallow compassion.

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I loved to read, but I always thought that the dream was too far away. The person who had written the book was a god, it wasn't a person.

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Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what we wanted to read. It was a feeling of having a book be mine entirely.

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It's unfortunate that sometimes in schools, there's this need to have things quantified and graded.

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Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way to poetry. It's about using words in very precise ways and using gesture.

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I was appointed Poet Laureate. It came totally out of the blue because most Poet Laureates had been considerably older than I. It was not something that I even had begun to dream about!

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When things are bad, it's the best time to reinvent yourself.

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I had a very difficult childhood. I was surrounded by people who had both parents, which made me feel different. Having a bit of a rougher existence early on, it made me appreciate the work ethic that my grandparents instilled in me.

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I've spent days in cinemas answering questions from the audience, in interviews, travelling abroad, and all they do is thank me nicely.

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I love comedy and I would write things to myself as an exercise in writing. I didn't do well for years, and I quit. I started to break down why I was afraid and started to look at people I admired, like Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, Freddie Prinze, George Carlin and all.

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Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early.

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There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry.

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You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.
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Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine.

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If the boy and girl walk off into the sunset hand-in-hand in the last scene, it adds 10 million to the box office.

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I loved photography and everybody said it was a crazy thing to do because in those days nobody made it into the film business. I mean, unless you were related to somebody there was no way in.

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There wasn't much as a kid that inspired me in what I did as an adult, but I was always very interested in what motivates people, and in telling stories and building things.

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Football games are on TV, and it doesn't affect stadium attendance at all. It's the same with movies. People who really love movies and like to go out on a Saturday night will go to the movie theater.

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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

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Everyone seems to think that digital technology devoid the medium of content, but that is not true at all. If anything, it broadens the content.

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I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn't care what kind of movies I made.

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If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer.

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An idea has been running in my head that books lose and gain qualities in the course of time, and I have worried over it a good deal, for what seemed to be a paradox, I felt to be a truth.

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The truth is that I am in love with Dublin. I think it is the most beautiful town that I have ever seen, mountains at the back and the sea in front, and long roads winding through decaying suburbs and beautiful woods.

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God is the author of the Bible, and only the truth it contains will lead people to true happiness.

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Only a life of prayer and meditation will render a vessel ready for the Master's use.

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In order to enjoy the Word, we ought to continue to read it, and the way to obtain a spirit of prayer, is, to continue praying; for the less we read the Word of God, the less we desire to read it, and the less we pray, the less we desire to pray.

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If honest of heart and uprightness before God were lacking or if I did not patiently wait on God for instruction, or if I preferred the counsel of my fellow-men to the declarations of the Word of God, I made great mistakes.

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You can bind my body, tie my hands, govern my actions: you are the strongest, and society adds to your power; but with my will, sir, you can do nothing.

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It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

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No place is ugly to those who understand the virtues and sweetness of everything that God has made.

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Then she had doubts about the reality of her situation and wondered if her imminent departure was not the illusion of a dream.

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We have now all sorts of good reasons for accepting life, quite as good as those that had made us reject it the previous week.

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I love to shop after a bad relationship. I don't know. I buy a new outfit and it makes me feel better. It just does. Sometimes I see a really great outfit, I'll break up with someone on purpose.

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When I eventually met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always.
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My burning desire is to lead my generation into the very act of worship, worshiping the Lord in spirit and in truth.

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When someone is not free to do what they feel like doing, like every other person on the street, it causes depression which can even lead to death.

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Living a fake life can lead to indebtedness as some celebrities always want to meet up to a certain standard.
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The right-wingers don't want to admit that for some people, there are no jobs; they think that conscientiousness in and of itself will do the trick.

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The internet already gives us access to what’s going on elsewhere, we don’t have to be so desperate to go see those places.

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Men are self-confident because they grow up identifying with super-heroes. Women have bad self-images because they grow up identifying with Barbie.

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Some of us are having a wild time, we are constantly changing while remaining the same…we are a little insane, and love is the reason for the malady.

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I have seen more demonstrations and strikes in my first two years. I don’t think it can get worse. It is said that when you kill a goat and you frighten it with a knife, it doesn’t fear the knife because it is dead already. I have a dead goat syndrome

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I think that Africa has made quite rapid progress and a lot of the conflicts that we saw on the continent have abated.

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I get a lot of return business. I think it's all those years I put in traveling around the country; people saw me before and had a good time so they want to see me again.

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I had no desire to be a stand-up comic until I decided to do it.

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I'm a practical person. I'm not too bad a carpenter. I can renovate houses.

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