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The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a

The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college. – Tony Hillerman

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I always have one or two, sometimes more, Navajo or other tribes cultural elements in mind when I start a plot. In Thief of Time, I wanted to make readers aware of Navajo attitude toward the dead, respect for burial sites. – Tony Hillerman

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Hitch your wagon to a star. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I teach one semester a year, and this year Im just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop for older students in their late 20s and early 30s, people in our graduate program who are already working on a manuscript and trying to bring it to completion. – Tobias Wolff

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The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed. – Henry Ford

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It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma on the bus that I realised Id become an actor. – James Darcy

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Take your work seriously, but never yourself. – Margot Fonteyn

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My soul is dark with stormy riot: directly traced over to diet. – Samuel Hoffenstein

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Something Ive realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if were smart about it. – Brian Eno

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Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors. – Leonard Bernstein

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