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Rita Dove Quotes

What writing does is to reveal.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Writing Reveal Does

We like smashing genres into each other, so if you can find something that's really idiosyncratic in respect to superhero genre and you can smoosh it into it, you usually wind up with something fresh and different.

Respect Wind You Find Fresh Up

We're social beings, and I need to know and remember where I came from.

Remember Know Need Social Where

I'd read 'Paradise Lost' as an undergrad at university but remembered little about it. No, not true: I remembered few details, but carried with me with the persuasive arguments and pitiable dilemma of its arguable protagonist, Satan.

Me Details Paradise Lost True Satan

When I was in the Air Force, if I walked into a restaurant, in about eight or nine minutes the M.P.'s would show up and drag me out because someone had called saying that someone was impersonating an officer.

Melvin Van Peebles

Me Saying Restaurant Someone Air Up

My biggest job really is to figure other people out. I need to understand what makes a person tick.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

Job People Person Understand Need

If you're lucky like me, your relationship with your brother has resolved itself on the peaceful side of the fence and has stayed there. But if you're someone who's got a family that's all fractured and finding it hard to relate, that's a very sad place to be.

Family Relationship Sad Brother Me

Living inside the shuttle was a little like camping out. We ended up sleeping in our seats. You had to pay attention to housekeeping, not get things too dirty.

Attention You Dirty Living Sleeping

When I got sober, I thought giving up was saying goodbye to all the fun and all the sparkle, and it turned out to be just the opposite. That's when the sparkle started for me.

Fun Me Goodbye Saying Sparkle Sober

There have been times where I've said, 'Jesus, I don't believe in you anymore, get out of here. I don't know. I don't even trust you.' And it's like, okay. And he's still hanging on.

Trust Believe You Know Said Okay

I make mistakes - I have made a lot of mistakes - but I am a good person, and I will persevere.

Good Mistakes I Am Good Person Will

I haven't gone home with anybody who tried to pick me up in a long time.

Home Time Me Long Long Time Gone

I feel I'm such a big part of that insecurity that some girls might have because of my job, that girls think they have to be that picture. And even boys, they think that that picture exists, and it's so frustrating because I don't look like that picture - I wake up not looking like that picture.

Job Insecurity Looking Wake Up Think

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