I come from a very working-class background.
Janet Montgomery
Recitation: by Male by Female
'Hard Hit,' a YA collection of poems, explores the country of grief and survival. Mark, a 16-year-old boy and skilled pitcher, must confront the coming death of his beloved father with the help of his friends, family, baseball, and an idiosyncratic belief in God. I used my own experience of my parents' deaths to inform this journey.
Ann Turner
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Speaking from personal experience, I watch zero shows when they air. The only shows I watch live are awards shows or sports. Shows like 'True Detective' and 'Game Of Thrones,' I watch every episode, but I don't watch them as they air, and I think that's becoming the case for people more.
Andy Samberg
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The oil industry fought hard to keep Keystone alive, making wildly exaggerated claims that the pipeline - the country's largest infrastructure project - would create tens of thousands of jobs and decrease America's reliance on oil from the Middle East.
Jeff Goodell
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I always like to make some jokes, sometimes.
Metta World Peace
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Yeah; I'm a much better blues player than anybody knows, but being in the kind of group I'm in, we were always trying to make popular records.
Stephen Stills
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Lot of things depend on the up bringing of a child.
Shiv Khera
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It's a privilege to serve in Washington, D.C., but I never lose sight of what the Lord has called me to do in my life. And that is to be, first a husband, and then a father, and succeed there from His perspective, and He'll take care of everything else.
Mike Pence
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I love my Nike Air Max trainers. They're big and bulky and spanking - I can't be doing with grubby trainers.
Michael Socha
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The point is not to stay marginal, but to participate in whatever network of marginal zones is spawned from other disciplinary centers and which, together, constitute a multiple displacement of those authorities.
Judith Butler
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Comedy is like horror - you have to shock something in the viewer's system to make them feel it.
Jonathan Krisel
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More than 150 heads of state attended the UN Summit, giving New Yorkers a chance to get in touch with prejudices they didn't even know they had.
Jon Stewart
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We can never, ever say it enough: every woman - especially every young woman-has to take charge of her health... and do what's right for her!
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
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