"I admire Ginsberg as a poet, despite the fact that he seems not to know when he is being good and when he is bad. But he will last, or at least those poems will last."

-- Leslie Fiedler

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“I read a lot of archaeology and early history in a general way, not thinking particularly of this book, and this provided me with the background. It showed me how, possibly, the people lived back then.”
“I often look at women who wear great jeans and high heels and nice little T-shirts wandering around the city ,and I think, 'I should make more of an effort. I should look like that.' But then I think, 'They can't be happy in those heels.'”
“A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect.”
“(H)er qualifications for the Supreme Court are non-existent. She is not a brilliant jurist, indeed, has never been a judge. She is not a scholar of the law. Researchers are hard-pressed to dig up an opinion. She has not had a brilliant career in politics, the academy, the corporate world or public forum. Were she not a friend of Bush, and female, she would never have even been considered.”
“There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.”
“It is not wise to give something old and powerful something they care about. And I am very old.”
“I stick my neck out for nobody. I'm the only cause I'm interested in.”
“I hope that in some way that I can be some sort of beacon of hope, especially because I am not the typical Hollywood beauty.”

Source : "OTRC: Oscars 2012: Octavia Spencer backstage: I hope I can be 'beacon of hope'". abc7.com. February 26, 2012.

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