Robert Morgan
Robert Morgan
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One of the most powerful devices is to distort time, to go from human time to atomic time, geologic time. Sometimes you can actually accomplish that, with one unexpected word choice.
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With the latest increase, New Jersey families will spend another $543 to send their children to Rutgers this year. That's an unexpected expense that will put a strain on most families' budgets. We're asking our colleagues in the state Legislature to join us in supporting this bill's passage so that this does not happen again next year. We have a historic commitment to make higher education available to our students.
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Part of the pleasure of being a writer is that you get to go to unexpected places. If a place sounds interesting, I like to go.
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Breakfast, lunch and dinner every day. It seems like the better we feed them, the more creative they are.
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We came up. We thought we'd be here about nine months. Things just clicked. The timing was good.
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I'd always heard about that battle. As I got older and studied military history, I found that the Battle of Cowpens was studied all over the world.
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Most people think they are underpaid. Everybody wants to get more.
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To cancel would be worse PR than playing it,
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We would like to put people's minds at ease as to whether the petroleum business is responding to circumstances that are beyond its control, or if there is an element of greed in the recent price increases,
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In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible.
writing parent sensitive
Neither of my parents has been very sensitive about my writing.
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If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable.
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I have taught students from the New York City area so long I have a special affinity and rapport with them. It surprises me sometimes that there are students from anywhere else.
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A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does.