From the age of six I wanted to be an artist. At that point I meant a painter, but it turned out what I really meant was I was someone who was very interested in watching the world and making copies of it.
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You have to realize that your work is done by your body, and if your body is in very bad health, it's not going to work for you no matter how young you are. So, I'm a bit of an athletic coach when it comes to trying to respect my body's needs and tendencies, and when I teach students, I try and persuade them of the same.Reynolds Price
What I still ask for daily - for life as long as I have work to do, and work as long as I have life
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I said to one of my students a couple of years ago, what is it with you people You never get off the phone to one another, you travel through whole continents to be with one another for 14 hours. And he said, Mr. Price, we had to invent families of our own, our own families disappeared.
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The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.
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I think we Southerners have talked a fair amount of malarkey about the mystique of being Southern.
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Everybody was there. A bachelor aunt or uncle. You would all come to the table, even some stone-deaf member of the family, usually the oldest ... and he would mumble something under his breath.
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