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"The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching."
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"Writers seem to me to be people who need to retire from social life and do a lot of thinking about what's happened - almost to calm themselves."
Life
"That's one of the things I hope that the book can do, is to restore some dignity to Joe Cinque."
Hope
"But I now think what I was doing, in a completely unconscious way, was getting off the turf where my husband and I might be rivals. We were both working in fiction... so I look back and I see that I consciously vacated the contested ground."
Competition
"It's disturbing at my age to look at a young woman's destructive behaviour and hear the echoes of it, of one's own destructiveness in youth."
Age
"We were in a great, seething moment in the 1970s. There was a new Labour government and everything seemed full of hope... But, as we got older and we saw how much women's behaviour contributed to what was wrong, we stopped being able to see ourselves purely as."
Government
"The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching."
College
"But I can't bear it when somebody who some man made a pass at - to call that violence seems to me absurd and insulting to women who've really met violence, who've been raped or bashed."
Woman
"But there are some wounds that can never be healed."
Sadness
"People demand a lot of the justice system and they demand things that it can't deliver."
People
"The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall."
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"On the first day of a college you will worry about how will you do inside the college? and at the last day of a college you will wonder what will you do outside the college?"
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"But I went to high school in a Portland suburb and went to college here."
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"I didn't go to college, I went straight from high school to working on I'll Fly Away, I was very, very lucky."
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"I come from a modest background. I put myself through college and law school and a postdoctorate program in tax law."
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"In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises."
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"Pell grants are the foundation of Federal student aid. As someone who attended college with the help of Pell grants and as chairman of the Pell Grant Caucus, I know how important they are for our Nation's low-income students."
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"I travelled to California when I was 18 and went to Los Angeles State College."
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"A white boy that makes C's in college can make it to the White House."
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"I taught in a small teacher's college for three or four years, at which point all the administrators got a pay raise and the teaching faculty didn't."
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"That's the same in college. It's the same in high school. Kids are getting bigger, stronger, faster, more into the weightlifting, more into nutrition, more into size."
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