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I'm considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself as a very interested person. I've never been bored in my life.

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I got my own back.

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I know some people might think it odd - unworthy even - for me to have written a cookbook, but I make no apologies. The U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins thought I had demeaned myself by writing poetry for Hallmark Cards, but I am the people's poet so I write for the people.

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I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

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I work very hard, and I play very hard. I'm grateful for life. And I live it - I believe life loves the liver of it. I live it.

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When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

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I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English.

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If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

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If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England - you couldn't have a person who would be more protective than my mother was for me. Which meant really that I could dare to do all sorts of things.

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The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.

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For a person who grew up in the '30s and '40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, 'Here I am, read me.' Over time I have learned I am at my best around books.

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A cynical young person is almost the saddest sight to see, because it means that he or she has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

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Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.

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It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.

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On Saturday afternoons when all the things are done in the house and there's no real work to be done, I play Bach and Chopin and turn it up real loudly and get a good bottle of chardonnay and sit out on my deck and look out at the garden.

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At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.

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It's good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for awhile their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.

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When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, 'Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.'

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I love the song 'I Hope You Dance' by Lee Ann Womack. I was going to write that song, but someone beat me to it.

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I wasn't a pretty girl. I was six feet tall at 15, you know.

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