James Tate
James Tate
James Vincent Tatewas an American poet whose work earned him the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. He was a professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth8 December 1943
CountryUnited States of America
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We believe that he knew who he was shooting at, but again, bullets don?t have names on them.
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We're looking for folks to pay their fair share for services -- it's not just police, but also fire and other services the city provides.
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We have a lot of help from federal and local law enforcement, some of whom have worked other Super Bowls, and are coming into town. We're borrowing their expertise.
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Overall, it's been a good week. We're very pleased. I've never seen this many people in the city over seven days, but it went very well because everyone has been friendly and cooperative.
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The department has issued tickets ... and will continue to do so.
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I love my funny poems, but I'd rather break your heart. And if I can do both in the same poem, that's the best.
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Anytime you have a funeral of a person who is publicly known, it calls for extra security to handle crowd control. This definitely is not the first type of funeral we would handle in this type of manner.
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If you laughed earlier in the poem, and I bring you close to tears in the end, that's the best.
I like to start with the ordinary, and then nudge it, and then think, 'What happens next, what happens next?'
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It's clear that this is not a case of foul play.
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That's going to be a difficult question to answer.
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Every time we received a complaint, we've hit the house.
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Every time we got a call, we came out here. This is a well-known narcotics location. It's not as if we were doing nothing with this house.