Even when writing your own poems, you need to talk to people; you need to magpie around, getting words and things. I'm very against the celebrity culture that wants to say: 'this is a genius, this is one person who has done something brilliant.' There are always a hundred people in the background who have helped to make it.
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And I wonder if Lee started all this violence. MARINA OSWALD Be careful that you don't become a hypocrite by spending all your time trying to get others right wi... OSWALD CHAMBERS God always ignores the present perfection for the ultimate perfection. OSWALD CHAMBERS Having given us the package, do you think God will deny us the ribbon? OSWALD C. HOFFMAN Evangelism as the New Testament describes it is not child's play. Evangelism is work, often hard wor... OSWALD C. HOFFMAN They have found absolutely nothing to connect us with the Communist Party of the United States. In r... LEE HARVEY OSWALD I am a communist and a worker, and I have lived in a decadent capitalist society where the workers a... LEE HARVEY OSWALD I always felt that the Cubans were being pushed into the Soviet Bloc by American policy. LEE HARVEY OSWALD A lot of what I do in the book is debunk these conspiracy theories, LEE HARVEY OSWALD Whenever you fall, pick up something OSWALD THEODORE AVERY And that is my definition of democracy, the right to be in a minority and not be suppressed. LEE HARVEY OSWALD of sound mind, but very strong-willed, and if his request for permission to remain in the USSR were ... LEE HARVEY OSWALD We do not support the man. We do not support the individual. We support the idea of independent revo... LEE HARVEY OSWALD If the results of the present study on the chemical nature of the transforming principle are confirm... OSWALD THEODORE AVERY Revolutions require work, revolutions require sacrifice, revolutions, and our own included, require ... LEE HARVEY OSWALD I don't know why you are treating me like this. The only thing I have done is carry a pistol int... LEE HARVEY OSWALD I hear they burn for murder. Well, they say it just takes a second to die. LEE HARVEY OSWALD I don't know why you are treating me like this. The only thing I have done is carry a pistol into a ... LEE HARVEY OSWALD I want citizenship because I am a communist and a worker, I have lived in a decadent capitalist soci... LEE HARVEY OSWALD Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve. ALICE PAUL I think fashion can always date, but I think if a woman has elegance, she doesn't date. ALICE TEMPERLEY The decisions you make are a choice of values that reflect your life in every way. ALICE WATERS I think that I do feel that my nature is to express what this self, this particular self at this tim... ALICE WALKER I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire... ALICE WALKER It is because I recognize the brutality with which my own multi-branched ancestors have been treated... ALICE WALKER After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to... ALICE DREGER After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to... ALICE DREGER Instead of constantly enhancing the norm - forever upping the ante of the 'normal' with new ... ALICE DREGER I think it is more of an intuitive, circular kind of personality, for starters. And, as I say of hor... ALICE WALTON It seems our fate to be incorrect (look where we live, for example), and in our incorrectness stand. ALICE WALKER I find talking about my work harder than it might be if honesty wasn't my calling card. ALICE SEBOLD My father loved 'Godard and Truffaut.' He was more artsy. My mom loved the 'Bourne' ... ALICE BRAGA What interests me is whatever it is that allows the heart to continue to yearn for something the int... ALICE MCDERMOTT You just let your lower self go, and then it takes on all these aspects of the society - the city wi... ALICE COOPER If we want to fight people in the world, we should fight them with pillows - pillows stuffed with fo... ALICE WALKER How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house th... ALICE WALKER We say we waste time, but that is impossible. We waste ourselves. ALICE BLOCH