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I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.

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Anita Diament
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 24
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Novelist
Short Story Writer
University Teacher
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Music
Many
Kind
Love
World
Classical
Pops
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Jazz

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He was golden and beautiful as a sunset.
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When a shy person smiles, it’s like the sun coming out.
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Shakespeare in Love... such smart writing of an alternative view of history, and such beautiful acting. Like most Americans, I'm a sucker for the accent.
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Whatever your relationship is to your sacred tradition in the West, you have some relationship to the Bible if only through the names of the characters.
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They sang the words in unison, yet somehow created a web of sounds with their voices. It was like hearing a piece of fabric woven with all the colors of a rainbow. I did not know that such beauty could be formed by the human mouth. I had never heard harmony before.
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There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America.
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I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took it over already had a full plate. It was never advertised. We didn't get reviewed in any major outlets.
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Right now, I'm Writing song lyrics. Experimenting with a play. Toying with an idea for a documentary. I hope one of these will eventually be launched into the light of day.
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It was one of those perfect fall days when the air is cool enough to wake you up but the sun is also kissing your face.
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I moved my arms through the water, feeling them float on the surface, watching the waves and wake that followed my gesture. Here was magic, I thought. Here was something holy.
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I am so honored to be the vessel into which you pour this story of pain and strength.
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The real Mary Poppins got lost when Hollywood turned her into a cream puff.
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Egypt loved the lotus because it never dies. It is the same for people who are loved.
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Egypt loved the lotus becuase it never dies. It is the same for people who are loved. Thus can something as insignificant as a name-two syllables, one high, one sweet- summon up the innumerable smiles, tears, sighs and dreams of a human life.
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I like the way he danced. And then I like the way we danced together.
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Weeping is terrible for the complexion said Leonie, holding Shayndel close, but it is very good for the soul.
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The story it told was unremarkable: a tale of love found and lost- the oldest story in the world. The only story.
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There's nothing quite like a real . . . train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute
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My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12.
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on the day that the intlligence and talents of women are fully honored and employed, the human community and the planet itself will benefit in ways we can only begin to imagine.
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