How much money you get, depends on lots of extraneous things. It depends on how good you are at turning poetry into a marketable product, which is something it was never supposed to be. That's why many people suppose that the better the poet you are the lower your income should be, and that's probably true. ~Robert Bringhurst
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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love. ~English Proverb
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In the past the great majority of minority voters, in Ohio and other places, that means African American voters, cast a large percentage of their votes during the early voting process. ~John Lewis
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It is my belief that cooking is a craft. I think that you can push it into the realm of art, but it starts with craft. It starts with an understanding of materials. It starts with an understanding of where foods are grown. ~Tom Colicchio
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I am kind of a grinder. I am a Cinderella, an underdog story who fights. ~Zach Johnson
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Ideas without execution are hallucinations. ~Thomas A. Edison
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I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault. ~Tanith Lee
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But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress. ~Daisaku Ikeda
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Even the roughest character, underneath all that hurt, is someone who wants to love and be loved. ~Jan Karon
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Cleanliness is next to godliness. ~English Proverb
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We have been playing to a 70-30 black to white audience. And we are just doing what should come next, trying to attract a larger house, trying to reach an audience that's half black and white. ~Valerie Simpson
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To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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LIFE equals Live In Full Effect! ~Joseph Simmons
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I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to. ~Charlize Theron
#quotes #charlize-theron #travel #world #south-africa

Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy. ~Hannes Alfven
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I don't ever want to be comfortable with anything I'm doing. ~Ron Perlman
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A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal. ~Yiddish Proverb
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I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately. ~Aaron Taylor Johnson
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Never speak ill of the dead. ~English Proverb
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I love performing and having people hear my music more that anything. ~Britney Spears
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Unnamed entertainment industry moguls are now telling the New York Times that they intend never to work with Mel Gibson again. After all, how dare Mel Gibson challenge the public by producing a film that spurs public discussion, that pushes the envelope, that takes an old story to a new level. How dare Mel Gibson follow his own passion as a filmmaker. How dare he make $20 million on the opening day box office! ~Laura Ingraham
#quotes #laura-ingraham #mel-gibson #new-york #movies

The style developed over decades, really, but I started out writing pretty traditional stories, then became impatient. It was a writer named Russell Edson who showed me that one could write in any way at all. ~Lydia Davis
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I have always felt that kids are really smart. ~Michelle Trachtenberg
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He knew he should have counted. It was the rule to count to ten in his head before he opened his mouth. It was the rule to count to ten if he wanted to smash a man in the face for saying something he didn't like. It was the rule to count to ten if instinct wasn't needed, but common sense was. ~Melina Marchetta
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A strange, terrific force unlike anything I've ever experienced is sprouting in my heart, taking root there, growing. Shut up behind my rib cage, my warm heart expands and contracts independent of my will, over and over. ~Haruki Murakami
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