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Life grows lovely where you are.
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Being in Harlem on the night of Barack Obama's election was extraordinary. It was the best street party I have ever gone to, and it felt like the period of American history which began with slavery had ended that evening.
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Assign Yogi Berra to Cape Canaveral; he could handle any missile.
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I knew all the rules but the rules did not know me.
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You must live life with the full knowledge that your actions will remain. We are creatures of consequence.
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Never give up. For fifty years they said the horse was through. Now look at him - a status symbol.
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The cool thing about reading is that when you read a short story or you read something that takes your mind and expands where your thoughts can go, that's powerful.
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I never met anybody in my life who says, I want to be a critic. People want to be a fireman, poet, novelist.
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I always imagined that to bring an orchestra to play together is not enough for a conductor.
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I've made so many people angry that they kind of blur into one unpleasant memory of people staring at you with somewhere between passive aggression and active aggression.
