And I said to myself, here's the problem with the world: The Italians are too Italian, and nobody … - Mary Jo Salter

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I've got my girl records that are real feel-good and could be a radio crossover. But it's not me going in that direction, and being like, "We need this huge pop crossover record where we need this girl on the hook. "

Mary Jo Salter

And I said to myself, here's the problem with the world: The Italians are too Italian, and nobody else is Italian enough.

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Like a page dipped in ink, your cuff's in my coffee.
You have something to tell with unbuttoned sleeves.

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Money is that dear thing which, if you're not careful, you can squander your whole life thinking of.

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I am a relatively rational being and I like to create order in poems. I like meter, I like rhyme, but ultimately I don't know where the poems come from, and I feel, at least in the beginning, that I'm taking dictation from my own dream that I don't remember.

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All writers know in advance that they are not going be able to reproduce in its wonderful fullness the thing that's in their heads; we're going to get some corner of it. We're going to do the best we can, but we already know it's beyond us.

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Writing is a bit like walking into a big bookstore. It's the bookstore of your brain, and you know you're never going to read all those books. It makes you happy you're in the bookstore, and you're nervous because you know you're never going to read all those books. So the nervousness is also happy. Once I get going writing poetry is one of the happiest things I do, but it is also fraught with all of these anxieties.

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I get a call, and it's Howard Bingham, and he's got the champ on the line. Muhammad Ali didn't remember me from being a kid, but he was going, "Yeah, you're in bed, and you want your mama with you. . . " It really helped so much. He spent 15 or 20 minutes on the phone with me. That's a memory that I'll always cherish.

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The problem with American power is not that it is American. The problem is simply the power. It would be dangerous even for an archangel to wield so much power.

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Because God loves us, he gives us the freedom to make choices. That's good news if we choose wisely. But it also gives us the capacity to sin.

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