Luanne Rice Quotes

When I was married to an abuser, he'd tell me he wouldn't have to get so angry if only I'd be less demanding, more supportive, more understanding. I hid the truth from everyone, especially myself.

Luanne Rice

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TruthMyselfAngryMeUnderstanding

I was a lieutenant in World War II.

John Eisenhower

WarWorldWorld War IILieutenant

If the opponent offers keen play I don't object; but in such cases I get less satisfaction, even if I win, than from a game conducted according to all the rules of strategy with its ruthless logic.

Anatoly Karpov

WinGameStrategyLogicRulesPlay

Ideally, I'd love to write poems that intrigued humans across the board: literary folk and academics as well as... dog-walkers, doctors, plumbers, chefs, math professors, jugglers, etc.

Amy Gerstler

LoveWriteProfessorsAcademicsWell

I believe in dancing.

Robert Fulghum

BelieveI BelieveDancing

The 60s passed and faded and I grew older, and in 1987 bought a house in upstate New York, and it turned out that John Brown was buried down the road from my house and that he had lived there longer than anywhere else and his house was still standing.

Russell Banks

New YorkRoadHouseDownNewOut

When I write I try as far as possible to forget I'm writing it at all. I tell it down onto the page, as if I'm telling it to one person only, my best friend.

Michael Morpurgo

FriendBestWritingBest FriendDown

There's probably more in the American tradition than people give the place credit for.

Donald Judd

PeopleAmericanTraditionCredit

I kind of dislike 'For Whom the Bell Tolls,' but most of Hemingway in general, mainly because his stylistic shenanigans ruined so many young writers of my generation who tried to imitate him. I think, for his time, he moved fiction to a different level stylistically, or at least added to the dialogue, but in our time, he's annoying.

Christopher Moore

TimeThinkGenerationYoungKind

The last thing I want is for people to go through the motions in life. We're all meant to do different things, but there's a lot of opportunity for us to do some great things.

Apolo Ohno

LifeOpportunityGreatPeopleWant

I've acclimated to the music-while-exercising thing.

Anthony Kiedis

Thing

The people that I see on the street, they treat me more as a human being and not just an icon or a football player.

Ricky Williams

FootballPeopleMeTreatStreetSee

On the football field, you're still going out to there to win. And if you're not going out there to win, what are you going out there for?

Richard Sherman

WinRestBetterYouComingOff

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