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I could really care less about what they think about me, but at the same time, I do have something to prove.

Care Could Less Prove
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People want variety and something that is affordable.
Affordable People Something Variety
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I don't want to approach reading from the viewpoint of that it's a pleasant adjunct to your life. I want to approach it from the idea that you have to read or you're going to suffer. There's a difference to be made - and you can make it if you read with your child.

Approach Child Difference Going
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As a kid I didn't see black cowboys on the screen. What that said to me was that there were things I couldn't do or be because of my color. What we see others like us do gives us permission to expand our own horizons.

Black Color Cowboys Expand
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Well, in order to become a grown man, in order to become significant in my family and significant in my children's life, I had to learn my lessons.

Become Children Family Grown
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I keep threatening to keep a formal journal, but whenever I start one it instantly becomes an exercise in self-consciousness. Instead of a journal I manage to have dozens of notebooks with bits and pieces of stories, poems, and notes. Almost every thing I do has its beginning in a notebook of some sort, usually written on a bus or train.

Beginning Bits And Pieces Dozens Every
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The business has changed so much that they're able - we're able these days in the music industry to be able to control our own destiny.

Able Business Changed Control
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I'm staying focused and clear about what I want in life, and I'm going to get it, man.

Clear Focused Get Going
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When a law enforcement officer apprehends an illegal immigrant, it makes no sense to simply release that individual who has been breaking our laws with no threat of sanction or penalty.

Breaking Enforcement Illegal Immigrant
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We need to break our dependency on foreign sources of oil, which leaves us at the mercy of foreign powers. To do that, we should increase domestic energy production.

Break Dependency Domestic Energy
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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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Members of Congress must live according to the same laws as everyone else.

According Congress Else Everyone
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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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With acting, I started very young, and I'd performed for a lot of children in boarding schools, late at night after the dormitory lights were out. I'd have a flashlight, and I'd be Count Dracula, or Shakespeare, or Yogi Bear, and leap from bunk to bunk. I loved the laughter; I liked the way it made people feel.

Acting After Bear Boarding
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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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The thing about being black and having a different accent, in the beginning, is that it makes you foreign.

Accent Beginning Being Black
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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 think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.

Dark Necessarily Reflection Things
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I don't like denial. I don't like repression.
Denial Like Repression
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A dark poem is meant to redeem the dark part.

Dark Meant Part Poem
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Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way, the hardest thing about writing poetry is waiting for that music, and sometimes you never know if it's going to come.

Language Music Necessity Never
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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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When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.

Addictive Because Begin Happens
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In dance you use every party of your body except your voice. I wanted to start acting because I wanted to use my voice.

Acting Because Body Dance
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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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My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a different thing.

Memorize Poems Poetry Quite
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I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.

Book Each Felt Like
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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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I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches to be joined together later, but I have never felt the slightest desire to do this.

Desire End Felt Heard
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Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.

Away Exhausting Far Know
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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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The work is with me when I wake up in the morning; it is with me while I eat my breakfast in bed and run through the newspaper, while I shave and bathe and dress.

Bed Breakfast Dress Eat
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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.
Begin Beginning Continue End
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