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"You know there's nothing a Hill Democrat would rather do than criticize another Democrat. It is their favorite activity. Then they can read about how honorable they are in an Op-Ed piece, how bipartisan."
"I try not to have favorites, but Barfly is one that I like. My favorite is always the one I just finished."
"My favorite book is the last one printed, which is always better than those that were published earlier."
"We were the laughingstock of that first season... It was with great relish several years later that I received a TV Guide award for favorite actress on television."
"I really don't have a favorite course. I usually ask where there are the least players."
"My favorite sounds are the high, spacey ones that are very ambient."
"I'd have to say Bali's my favorite place that I've visited."
"As far as my favorite songs to perform live, most of the songs we did live were my favorite. If they weren't, I would have gotten rid of them."
"And this one I wanted to do some covers. So I just really sang some of my favorite songs."
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"If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer."
"My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends."
"To write for PC reasons, because you think you ought to be dealing with this subject, is never going to yield anything that is really going to matter to anyone else. It has to matter to you."
"I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on."
"Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what we wanted to read. It was a feeling of having a book be mine entirely."
"I believe people may have a predisposition for artistic creativity. It doesn't mean they're going to make it."
"The sound of the mandolin is a very curious sound because it's cheerful and melancholy at the same time, and I think it comes from that shadow string, the double strings."
"For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about it. I failed to understand how people could fail to be moved by art."
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