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Rita Dove

"My favorite poets may not be your bread and butter. I have more favorite poems than favorite poets."

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Donna Grant

"And this one I wanted to do some covers. So I just really sang some of my favorite songs."

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Donna Grant

"My favorite book is always the one I'm working on at the moment."

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Donna Grant

"That's sort of like asking a parent who their favorite child is. It's very hard to determine. Sometimes I'll get feedback from somebody who liked this part of the show. Others like another part of the show."

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Donna Grant

"I would always fall down the big main staircase in our house. My favorite thing in the world was to pretend to be horribly killed at the top of it, and to fall dramatically down to the bottom of it."

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Donna Grant

"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."

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Donna Grant

"I try not to have favorites, but Barfly is one that I like. My favorite is always the one I just finished."

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Donna Grant

"Really, if I'm gonna eat a meat, I'd rather eat venison than anything and I do like it a little on the rare side. That's probably my favorite meat and I've had some awfully good venison in some of the great restaurants."

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Donna Grant

"My favorite is still the one that I started off with, which is a Les Paul Standard. I've played that at every gig I've ever had. And that's my starting point in the studio."

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Donna Grant

"One of my favorite episodes was the one in which Homer grew hair. That was a very unique episode, since there was a gay secretary, but that wasn't even the issue of the show-the issue was Homer's image changing because he had hair."

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Donna Grant

"You have to bear in mind that Mr. Autry's favorite horse was named Champion. He ain't ever had one called Runner Up."

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Rita Dove
"It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate."

Being

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Rita Dove
"My favorite poets may not be your bread and butter. I have more favorite poems than favorite poets."

Favorite

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Rita Dove
"Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful."

Poetry

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Rita Dove
"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."

Love

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Rita Dove
"I have a high guilt quotient. A poem can go through as many as 50 or 60 drafts. It can take from a day to two years-or longer."

Writing

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Rita Dove
"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."

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Rita Dove
"There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry."

Reading

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Rita Dove
"Libraries are where it all begins."

Literature

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Rita Dove
"When we are touched by something it's as if we're being brushed by an angel's wings."

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Rita Dove
"The joy of working at something to find out what it means to me is what I grew up with."

Joy

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