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Each of my novels has come from a different place, and the processes are not always entirely conscious. I have lived off and on in America for a number of years and so have accumulated observations, found things interesting, been moved to tell stories about them.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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At first I could not believe what I was reading. I got up from my seat and walked away, talking to myself that I may have found my mom.
Reese Hoffa
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I sang throughout school, and it was always my passion. For whatever reason, acting took the front seat, but all of the projects that I've been doing seem to have some sort of musical element to them.
Chrissie Fit
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As things get worse, poetry gets better because it becomes more necessary.


Eileen Myles
Many authors hate to go on grinding book tours. But I've always found it a useful way to be a foreign correspondent in America and take the pulse of the country.
Thomas Friedman
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I'm always jumping in my seat or gasping during a good horror movie.


Kiefer Sutherland
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Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.


Robert Frost
One can not be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America and then work.
Georgia O'Keeffe
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I'm not an academic, but I've always loved poetry since I've been small.


Naveen Andrews
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With horns and a full rhythm section, the drums always looked like the best seat in the house.


Levon Helm
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Bigotry has always been the poison of America, and we oughta do everything to eradicate it with no excuses or explanations.
Chuck Schumer
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Sound had always been my portal to poetry, but in the beginning, sound was imagined through the eye.


Donald Hall
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One of America's strengths has always been its openness to the new: both new ideas and new people.


Cesar Pelli
I distanced myself, relatively, from my parents for a year or so in my late twenties. It was necessary for me to feel my autonomy. Other than that brief gap, we have always been a very close family.
Jennifer Ehle
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America's greatness is not found in the size of its government. America's greatness resides in the hearts and the minds of the people.
Rick Perry
My heart has always been truly convinced that in serving the cause of America, I am fighting for the interests of France.
Marquis de Lafayette
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It has never been necessary for me to learn how to read music.


Yanni
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In times of conflict, our citizens have always been able to rise to the challenge. Maybe no greater example of that ability is found during the onset of World War II.
Chuck Norris
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We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.


Saul Bellow
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People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I was not tired physically... No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.
Rosa Parks
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