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I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.
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I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes.
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I could write six songs in one day with everything that's going on.
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I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy.
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I don't have a permanent place where I live. I'm in Atlanta about six or seven months out of the year. I gave up on my place in New York. I don't have a place in L.A., but sometimes when I go there for the hiatus, I stay in temporary housing. It's all over the place, and I don't know where I live!
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I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it.
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I grew up with six brothers. That's how I learned to dance - waiting for the bathroom.
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I had six honest serving men. They taught me all I knew. Their names were: Where, What, When, Why, How and Who.
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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes and six months later you have to start all over again.
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I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.
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I have waited twenty-two years for this... I've waited all my life for this opportunity.
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I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would write something worthy of publication. I understood I might be in my forties or my fifties or even my sixties, but I felt confident that it would happen.
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I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.
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I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.
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I sometimes think we all die at twenty-five and after that are nothing but walking corpses, with gramophones inside.
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I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.
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I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.
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I think in twenty years I'll be looked at like Bob Hope. Doing those president jokes and golf shit. It scares me.
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I think the inflation prospects for the U.S. over the next five or six, seven years, are quite serious. You cannot have a bumper crop in apples without the value or the price of each apple falling. The Fed has had the largest increase in the monetary base in the history of the U.S., from colonial times to the present, times ten.
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I took a speed reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
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