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Bill Dedman Quotes

Sammy Sosa grew up without a father in the back of a converted public hospital in San Pedro de Macoris, a dusty seaside town in the Dominican Republic. His father, Juan Montero, died when Sosa was 5.

Bill Dedman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1960

Topics

Father Back Hospital Without Up His

What's so hard about that first sentence is that you're stuck with it. Everything else is going to flow out of that sentence. And by the time you've laid down the first two sentences, your options are all gone.

Joan Didion

Time You Down Flow First Hard

Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.

John Dryden

Fool Tired Me Eagle Wings Now

I started out with nothing. I still have most of it.

Michael Davis

Nothing Out Started Still Most

This is the time that I really miss being in my courtroom because I believe that that's the last place in this country where there's supposed to be fairness.

Star Jones

Time Believe Fairness Country Place

Gradually I find that my whole soul is merging itself into this business of writing, and especially of writing poetry. I am going to try it; and am going to test, in the most rigid way I know, the awful question whether it is my vocation.

Sidney Lanier

Business Soul I Am Poetry Writing

I don't walk around with a cowboy hat. I did get a tattoo that says 'cowboy' that's a bit of an over-compensation, probably.

Ronnie Dunn

Walk Hat Tattoo Cowboy Get Did

Yeah, my parents help me keep my feet on the ground.

Rupert Grint

Parents Me Feet Help Ground Keep

I have noticed that many who do not believe in God believe in everything else, even in the evil eye.

Jules Verne

God Evil Eye Believe Everything Who

I had always wanted to be a writer who confused genre boundaries and who was read in multiple contexts.

Jonathan Lethem

Confused Always Boundaries Writer

I learned so much, and I feel I have grown as an actor and as a person.

Dhanush

Feel Person Actor I Feel Much Grown

When you turn 60, the key is to not stop moving. Once you start to stop moving, you rust. You got to just keep going.

Christie Brinkley

Keep Going Moving Start Key You

I feel like I need to start wearing a T-shirt saying 'This is not a photo opportunity'. People are so lovely but you do find that when you're out you spend 40% of your time posing for photographs.

Chris O'Dowd

Opportunity Time People Start Saying