Rita Dove Quotes

I loved to write when I was a child. I wrote, but I always thought it was something that you did as a child, then you put away childish things.

Rita Dove

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 28, 1952

Topics

ChildThoughtLovedYouChildish

I've always loved films, always. I studied literature and I went to Columbia in New York and I went to Paris for part of one year and ended up staying there.

Jim Jarmusch

New YorkLovedLiteratureYearNew

If I had had a thing like an iPad when I was a kid, then I never would have gotten into the habit of writing things down by hand.

Joe Haldeman

HabitWritingDownHandNeverKid

The packaging has to really sell the product today, because kids can go out and buy a CD and then 10 kids can burn them. So you have to really be on your toes.

Jerry Only

TodayYouGoBurnProductOut

When we were all kids, there was one particular trailer that I think we can all remember. That was the trailer for 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind.' There was an amazing teaser trailer with all this weird kind of documentary footage. We were like, 'What was that! I've got to see that! What the hell was that?'

Matt Reeves

AmazingThinkHellWeirdRemember

I don't really listen to music. I don't. I watch television.

Sia

MusicTelevisionListenWatchReally

I always wanted to do a Hollywood story. The thing about actors, though, is that they go through a streak of roles. The question is, what's in between?

Tom Folsom

StoryGoHollywoodQuestionAlways

The only time I'll use a microwave is to warm up a cup of coffee I've left too long before drinking.

Mary Berry

TimeCoffeeWarmLongUpLeft

I think I've done every crazy diet there was in the beginning, but it's weird: I'm thinner now than I was when I was modeling. I don't obsess about it.

Molly Sims

BeginningCrazyThinkWeirdDiet

A quick glance at the American left reveals a movement in the midst of a nervous breakdown, displaying behavior that goes beyond inconsistency into the realm of bipolar moods and multiple personality disorders.

Michael Medved

PersonalityBehaviorAmericanNervous

I'm not sure that niceness is what we should promote in writers.

Lorrie Moore

SureShouldPromoteWriters

Notice the small things. The rewards are inversely proportional.

Liz Vassey

Small ThingsSmallThingsRewards

A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body.

Christian Dior

ArchitectureDressBodyEphemeral

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