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Rita Dove Quotes

Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

End Play Pleasure Rap Whole Only

I project stronger. If you notice the old records - they're much lighter - vocally much lighter in sound than the records that I'm doing today.

Today Doing Stronger You Project

I didn't go into the NASA program to pick up rocks or to go the moon or anything else. I went in there because I was a military officer, and that was the next notch in my profession.

Moon Rocks NASA Go Military Up

In this country, the health concerns and the environmental concerns are as deep as in Europe. All the surveys show that. But here, we didn't have the cultural dimension. This is a fast-food culture.

Health Culture Environmental Deep

The entertainment business remains a business of blockbusters, and increasingly so.

Business Entertainment Remains

I encourage the translators of my books to take as much license as they feel that they need. This is not quite the heroic gesture it might seem, because I've learned, from working with translators over the years, that the original novel is, in a way, a translation itself.

Michael Cunningham

Feel Way Need Over Years Seem

It has been said that I make chick flicks. This is not a compliment.

Said Compliment Been Make Chick

I was born to be champion of the world.

World Champion Born I Was Born

I'm a stubborn guy that loses his temper, sometimes driving the station wagon in the wrong direction for hours and hours and never admitting that he's gone the wrong way.

Direction Stubborn Driving Wrong Way

I grew up hearing stories about how my maternal grandfather had put himself through engineering school in New York City. He saved money by walking down to a gas station once a week to take a shower. When I applied to college, both education and investment value were important to me.

Education Money School Value College

I felt the same when I went to Manchester United, to Madrid, to Leverkusen, and now at West Ham. The only pressure I have is my pressure. That's it.

Javier Hernandez

Pressure Now Same United West Only

The home is the planet. Unless you're a Martian, you know, we're sharing the planet. And - and the emissions don't stop and CO2 doesn't stop with the border between France, Spain or between Canada and the United States.

Jose Angel Gurria

Home Border You Canada Stop Know

You know, when I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other empires.

Girl End You Know Empires Empire

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