"There's definitely a voice and I always speak my work aloud. I have a lot of old people in my head, most of them dead now, but I always hear how they would say things, my grandparents and my neighbors."

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Samantha Hunt

#Grandparent Quotes #People Quotes #Speak Quotes

“Octavia Butler, of course, is brilliant and disturbing.”
“I rely on Taegan Goddard's Political Wire for straight, fair political news, he gets right to the point. It's an eagerly anticipated part of my news reading.”
“The unknown is always interesting.”
“Socks is the White House cat. But did you know there is also a White House dog?”
“Wit and woman are two frail things, and both the frailer by concurring.”

Source : Sir Thomas Overbury (1756). “The Miscellaneous Works in Verse and Prose of Sir Thomas Overbury, with Memoirs of His Life. The Tenth Edition”, p.239
“The essentials of poetry are rhythm, dance, and the human voice.”
“There's so much I wish for these days, but most of all, I wish you were here. It's strange, but before I met you, I couldn't remember the last time that I cried. Now, it seems that tears come easily to me...but you have a way of making my sorrows seem worthwhile, of explaining things in a way that lessens my ache. You are a treasure, a gift, and when we're together again, I intend to hold you until my arms are weak and I can do it no longer. My thoughts of you are sometimes the only things that keep me going.”
“I don't think the public is dying to see me necessarily be funny all the time.”

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