Where you are is who you are. The further inside you the place moves, the more your identity … - Frances Mayes

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I was the youngest kid on my street, the youngest comic in the clubs. I always felt like I was playing catch-up. I was very angry.

Frances Mayes

Where you are is who you are. The further inside you the place moves, the more your identity is intertwined with it. Never casual, the choice of place is the choice of something you crave.

Casual, Choices, Crave, Identity, Moving

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The Dream Lover-what a bold, insightful, and enticing novel. And how vigorously Elizabeth Berg brings us the iconoclastic life of George Sand. Berg writes with such intimacy and compassion that I think she must have some shared ancestral DNA with Sand. I savored every page.

Dream, Novel, Sand, Shared, Thinking, Writing

I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot.

Cotton, Deeply, Georgia, Grandfather, Rooted, Spot

I would like The Discovery of Poetry to be a field guide to the natural pleasures of language - a happiness we were born to have.

Discovery, Fields, Guide, Language, Pleasures

I got the idea that to write books would be the best way to spend a life. I never thought of anything else that seemed like half as much fun, although in my next life I would like to be an architect, too, so I can have an easier time restoring houses.

Book, Fun, Idea, Way, Writing

I find that other countries have this or this, but Italy is the only one that has it all for me. The culture, the cuisine, the people, the landscape, the history. Just everything to me comes together there.

Countries, Country, Culture, People, Together

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Jay Mohr

I was the youngest kid on my street, the youngest comic in the clubs. I always felt like I was playing catch-up. I was very angry.

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Tori Amos

So, you can make me come, that doesn't make you Jesus.

Come, Jesus, Make, Music

Francis Ford Coppola

I just finished a film a few days ago, and I came home and said I learned so much today. So if I can come home from working on a little film after doing it for 45 years and say, "I learned so much today," that shows something about the cinema. Because the cinema is very young. It's only 100 years old.

Cinema, Film, Finished, Home, Shows, Years

Rand Paul

American inventiveness and the desire to build developed because we were guaranteed the right to own our success.

Desire, Guaranteed, Inventiveness, Right, Success

Jonathan Safran Foer

We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it

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