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At the beginning of every semester, I ask my graduate students whether there is something I should read that will help me understand their work.

~Alice Mcdermott

Topics: Ask Beginning Every Graduate Help Me Read Semester Should Something Students Understand Whether Will Work

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Naturally, my stories are about women - I'm a woman. I don't know what the term is for men who write mostly about men. I'm not always sure what is meant by 'feminist.' In the beginning, I used to say, 'Well, of course I'm a feminist.' But if it means that I follow a kind of feminist theory, or know anything about it, then I'm not.

~Alice Munro

Topics: About Always Anything Beginning Course Feminist Follow In The Beginning Kind Know Means Meant Men Mostly Naturally Say Stories Sure Term Then Theory Used Well Who Woman Women Write

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'Lives' is one of those books I should really have written when I was younger. It is the classic childhood, adolescence, breakthrough-into-maturity book. Every beginning writer has that material - and after that, you're not sure what you can do.

~Alice Munro

Topics: Adolescence After Beginning Book Books Childhood Classic Every Lives Material Really Should Sure Those Writer Written You Younger

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I started writing as a child. But I didn't think of myself actually writing until I was in college. And I had gone to Africa as a sophomore or something - no, maybe junior - and wrote a book of poems. And that was my beginning. I published that book.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Actually Africa Beginning Book Child College Gone Had Junior Maybe Myself Poems Published Something Sophomore Started Think Until Writing Wrote

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America is not nearly done. We're only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows... what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants - if they survive that long - will see.

~Alice Walker

Topics: America Beginning Color Descendants Done In The Beginning Knows Long Maybe Nearly Only Our See Something Survive Who Will

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I'm very disappointed in Obama. I was very much in support of him in the beginning, but I cannot support war. I cannot support droning. I cannot support capitulating to the banks.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Banks Beginning Cannot Disappointed Him In The Beginning Much Obama Support Very War

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We've said from the very beginning Black Lives Matter is a network and also, as a broad set of individuals, is an organization moving to transform the way our society values black lives. It's not an 'Internet movement.'

~Alicia Garza

Topics: Also Beginning Black Broad Individuals Internet Lives Matter Movement Moving Network Organization Our Said Set Society Transform Values Very Way

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From the beginning, I've had to juggle and weigh the silly things people say - and I've learnt that they're meaningless, and they're mostly inaccurate. So I don't worry about it, because there's nothin' for me to deal with.

~Alicia Keys

Topics: About Because Beginning Deal Had Inaccurate Juggle Learnt Me Meaningless Mostly Nothin People People Say Say Silly Silly Things Things Weigh Worry

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Siblings are the guarantors that the private childhood world - so unlike the adult world that scientists are only just beginning to understand it - is a fully shared and objective one.

~Alison Gopnik

Topics: Adult Beginning Childhood Fully Just Objective Only Private Scientists Shared Sibling Understand Unlike World

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It's a play where something went wrong, 'Cause it's five hours, twelve minutes long. If you sit there, my friend, From beginning 'til end, Then your bladder better be strong!

~Allan Sherman

Topics: Be Strong Beginning Better Bladder Cause End Five Friend Hours Long Minutes My Friend Play Sit Something Strong Then Twelve Where Wrong You Your

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