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Rita Dove Quotes

I write short stories, and I wrote a play.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Short Play Write Stories Wrote

The bottom line is that five million low-income Americans working full time for minimum wage, deserve a raise.

Time Deserve Minimum Wage Line Five

One way or another, I want to be a positive force for the people of Louisiana and the United States of America in whatever way I can serve.

Positive People America I Can Want

I'm a Christian first, and a mean-spirited, bigoted conservative second, and don't you ever forget it.

Christian You Forget Conservative

It is better to be honourable than be honoured.

Better Than Honoured Honourable

In Arizona we have passed laws to free our people so that they can defend themselves and their loved ones. You cannot predict where evil will raise its head, but you can be prepared for it.

People Evil Free Loved You Predict

But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was fairly sure I wanted in the painting, and then collage on the painting with printed dots or painted paper or something before I really committed it.

Roy Lichtenstein

Painting Drawing Things Something

First and foremost, it's got to be on the page. It starts with the writing.

Writing Page First Got Starts

It isn't as if a writer merely records life as it unfurls. Reality does not automatically transcribe as literature; real people are not shapely, compelling characters to be harvested. Charming facts and sharp observations rarely slide seamlessly into whatever narrative is at hand.

Michelle Huneven

Life People Facts Reality Literature

Cape Verde produces good people.

Good People Good People Cape

When we make purchases on credit, they give us only an illusion of prosperity.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Credit Illusion Prosperity Us Give

Americans are nervous; Americans are restless; and what troubles me the most is that Americans are uncharacteristically pessimistic.

Joni Eareckson Tada

Me Nervous Restless Most Troubles

Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy.

Claude Adrien Helvetius

Fear Art Discipline Enemy More Than

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