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"We won the war, but we are losing the occupation and reconstruction of Iraq. It is past time for a new approach, one that relies on accountability, responsibility, and phasing down the scope of our military commitment."
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"You'd look out and there'd be little babies watching the show, and boys and girls. They loved the cowboys, and they loved Annie. There were young people seeing the show for the first time. I stayed for two years because I enjoyed it so much."
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"When you see a girl like me bustin' perps, there ain't no time to be pretty."
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"I can never tell ahead of time which book will give me trouble - some balk every step of the way, others seem to write themselves - but certainly the mechanics of writing, finding the time and the psychic space, are easier now that my children are grown."
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"If now isn't a good time for the truth I don't see when we'll get to it."
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"I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own."
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"There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened."
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"I met Mos Def around that time but I didn't hook up with him until I was about 17 or 18."
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"Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored."
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"When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I was a slave."
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"My novels aren't really generated by a single conceptual spark; it's more a process of many different elements that come together unexpectedly over a long period of time."
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"When I'm writing, I am concentrating almost wholly on concrete detail: the color a room is painted, the way a drop of water rolls off a wet leaf after a rain."
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"I really do work in solitude."
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"I think it's hard to write about children and to have an idea of innocence."
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"It's hard for me to show work while I'm writing, because other people's comments will influence what happens."
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"The books I loved in childhood - the first loves - I've read so often that I've internalized them in some really essential way: they are more inside me now than out."
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"The Little Friend is a long book. It's also completely different from my first novel: different landscape, different characters, different use of language and diction, different approach to story."
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"You are - all your experience just kind of accumulates, and the novel takes a richness of its own simply because it has the weight of all those years that one's put into it."
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"Children love secret club houses. They love secrecy even when there's no need for secrecy."
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"So I'm not a Southern writer in the commonly held sense of the term, like Faulkner or Eudora Welty, who took the South for their entire literary environment and subject matter."
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