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"I wrote a lot in study hall to while away the hours."
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"Study the nature around you, but also within you."
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"Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties."
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"Study the Bible, there God is the teacher."
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"Great risks come in long term, tremendously assiduous, very courageous study."
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"The best way to study is to go to the Cecchetti method for about a year and draw onto all the highest points and then put that into the general method."
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"Knowledge is enthusiasm to learn."
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"I don't study; I create."
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"Use the first moments in study. You may miss many an opportunity for quick victory in this way, but the moment the study are in insurance of success. Take your time and be sure."
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"Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow."
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"I was privileged to be able to study a year with Martha Graham, the last year she was teaching."
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"The economic piece is still missing, since it's so hard to attract industry to reservations, but spiritually and educationally, they're doing just fine. Each tribe has a community college now, and they teach the language, they teach the traditions."
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"I think ethnic and regional labels are insulting to writers and really put restrictions on them. People don't think your work is quite as universal."
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"Nobody would take checks from Indians, nobody would give them any credit, and nobody would let them drink in the bars. There was a rudeness, a brusqueness, with which the Indians were treated constantly. At a very young age, that had entered my consciousness."
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"I wander around, get the lay of the land and try to imagine what kind of people would have lived there in that historical period. What would they eat? What kind of clothing would they wear? How did they shelter themselves? How did they get around?"
People

"Our literature is in great shape."
Literature

"Richard Hugo taught me that anyone with a desire to write, an ear for language and a bit of imagination could become a writer. He also, in a way, gave me permission to write about northern Montana."
Imagination

"The title of the poems was The Only Bar in Dixon. We sent it out to The New Yorker on a fluke, and they took them and printed all three in the same issue."
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"I used to object to being called an Indian writer, and would always say I was a writer who happened to be an Indian, and who happened to write about Indians."
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"I wrote a lot in study hall to while away the hours."
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"In a lot of Indian societies, spirituality has been lost, I think it's still the best way of looking at the world for Indians - better than any organized religion in this country."
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