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Unfortunately, we are finding the bureaucratic inefficiencies and red tape have a tendency to slow the efforts of individuals and communities working to rebuild.

Bureaucratic Communities Efforts Finding
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Our culture, language, history, and values are vital to uniting us as a nation.

Culture History Language Nation
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There were two very distinct voices going on in my head and I moved easily between them. One had to do with sports, street life and establishing myself as a male... The other voice, the one I had from my street friends and teammates, was increasingly dealing with the vocabulary of literature.

Between Dealing Distinct Easily
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On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this year, it is all too real a possibility that they might not have been.

Family Following Give Healthy
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India, in particular, is looking to develop nuclear power for domestic, commercial use, and we should work with them. This is a good deal for both countries.

Commercial Countries Deal Develop
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So many organizations have a mentoring arm, but they don't really do it. Their idea of mentoring a kid is giving them general advice. But what they need to do is read with children.

Advice Arm Children General
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As we embrace the American dream and the freedoms it represents, we must also ensure that those who wish to enjoy those freedoms become a part of our society and learn to speak our language.

American Become Dream Embrace
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I'll never live to write all the stories I have in my head.

Head Live Never Stories
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My younger brother's death in Vietnam was both sobering and cause for reflection. In 'Fallen Angels' I wanted to dispel the notion of war as either romantic or simplistically heroic.

Angels Brother Cause Death
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Applause is the most powerful thing... people talk about the sound of it, but what I hear is glee.

Applause Glee Hear Most
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Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.

Bored Happiness Happy Here
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I considered myself very lucky after 'Baghdad Cafe,' and I have 'The Shield.' In every genre, I've kicked butt at some point. I'm real happy.

Considered Every Genre Happy
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.

Boring Character Male Pretty
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When I was a kid, a pickleball hit me in the back of the head, and I had memory problems. I was in a boarding school and the nuns gave me poems to remember to try and get the memory going again.

Memory Nuns Poems Problems
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I had to quit ballet because it felt like a part of me was dying inside.

Ballet Because Dying Felt
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I've got a general callout with the Caribbean world in which I'm interested in helping in any way to get their well-written good stories out to the rest of the world. I am really interested in helping those stories get to a completion and public viewing.

Caribbean Completion General Good
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I don't like denial. I don't like repression.
Denial Like Repression
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Sometimes you have a poem that you really want to write and it never happens.

Happens Never Poem Really
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I tended to write poems about both social and spiritual problems, and some problems one doesn't really want to solve, and so the problems themselves are solved. You certainly don't want to solve problems in poems that haven't been solved in the world.

Certainly Poems Problems Really
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I think poetry always lives its life, and people come to it and people go away from it, 'people' in the sense of larger numbers of people. It's as though you begin to think that poetry is a resource, and that at certain times people seem to need it or want it or can find sustenance in it, and at other times they can't.

Numbers People Poetry Resource
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A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts.

Always Clutch Excuse Hearth
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Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.

Contrast Counterfeit Crises Deeply
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I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write; to think only of my own tastes and ideals, without a thought of those of editors or publishers.

Editors Formed Ideals Never
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The doctor who applied a stethoscope to my heart was not satisfied. I was told to get my papers with the clerk in the outer hall. I was medically rejected.

Applied Clerk Doctor Get
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The material came bubbling up inside like a geyser or an oil gusher. It streamed up of its own accord, down my arm and out of my fountain pen in a torrent of six thousand words a day.

Accord Arm Came Day
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People think of Latina women as being fiery and fierce, which is usually true. But I think the quality that so many Latinas possess is strength. I'm very proud to have Latin blood.

Being Blood Fierce Fiery
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There is still need to think and plan, but on a different scale, and along different lines.

Along Different Lines Need
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They managed to find time... to tell me that there was no chance of my being accepted for service and that really I should be surprised to still be alive.

Accepted Alive Being Chance
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When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue for a space at the head of a long list of books for which no one will ever ask.

Catalogue Die Ever Head
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With two people and luggage on board she draws four inches of water. Two canoe paddles will move her along at a speed reasonable enough in moderate currents.

Along Board Canoe Currents
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Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

Away Ever Given Nothing
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Physical roles give me a chance to learn something new.

Chance Give Give Me Learn
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What doesn't feel okay to me, what feels a little bit out of balance, is when you want to turn yourself into something else - when you want to be another person.

Another Balance Bit Else
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I think as an American society, when we're paying too many taxes or dealing with war, we don't want to see sad things at the movies.

American American Society Dealing I Think
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Our brains are very animal but also very strange and egotistical. We're narcissistic.

Also Animal Brains Egotistical
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I never like to get political, but when you have the ability, through your media, to influence a large mass of people, I would want to be a part of the evolving cycle of progress vs. keeping things the way that they are.

Ability Cycle Evolving Get
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There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.

Creator Equity Governs Humanity
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If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

Conclude Derived Good Happy
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How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.

Frame Hasty How Judgment
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Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.
Capital Energy Failure Frequently
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God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.

Always Defend God Grants
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There is always room at the top.

Always Room There Top
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The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.

Appearance Fully Governed Know
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We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people.

Agents People Power Same
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A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.

Currency Government Evils Greatest
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I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.

American Born Die I Was Born
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What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.

Does Gives Him Immortality
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Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.

Among Disagree Only Quarrel
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Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.

Despotism Called May Government
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The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions.

Earth Materials Natural Productions
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