Richard Ford
Richard Ford
Richard Fordis an American novelist and short story writer. His best-known works are the novel The Sportswriter and its sequels, Independence Day, The Lay of the Land and Let Me Be Frank with You, and the short story collection Rock Springs, which contains several widely anthologized stories...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth16 February 1944
CityJackson, MS
CountryUnited States of America
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These arrest warrants are only a first step. If the warrants are to mean anything, governments must act now to arrest the accused.
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Dear Dick, you will be missed. You served our nation with distinction and honor, ... You have left a positive mark on our government.
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This is not what you ordered, ... This is not what the law requires.
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For a writer, children make life needlessly hard. I've muddled through a lot of things, but I have not muddled through my writing life. I work absolutely flat out, giving it my all.
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Any network traffic that is going to pose a security problem is just blocked. It's just as if the network traffic is purified before it passes on to our networks -- attacks are blocked and prevented from spreading. We just get the reports about how much. It's simple and effective, but we don't trust anything to be foolproof.
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Apple has a strong desire to be a major player in the home, but they haven't played their cards yet. They have been very careful to bring together a value proposition that's consistent with everything else that they do, which is easy to use and integrated.
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I went to college to study hospitality. I quickly got out of that and realized that what I liked to do was write.
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The leaders of tomorrow are shaped by the teachers of today. I am honored to be giving the keynote speech for an organization that has 50 years of experience inspiring today's early education and care providers to be innovative, thoughtful and motivating.
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I grew up in Mississippi being told it was a great place, but not feeling that. When I finally began reading seriously, literature showed me something about where I was from which was worthwhile.
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A promise was made by the Iraqi side to provide us with further information that we have requested.
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Now we have proof and evidence that these authorities have been used as cash cows and patronage mills by the Pataki administration,
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Literature has as one of its principal allures that it tells you something about life that life itself can't tell you. I just thought literature is a thing that human beings do.
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I haven't scoured Dixie out of my voice. But I don't think that the books that I have written... have really in any way been Southern in character.
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It's interesting to leave a place, interesting even to think about it. Leaving reminds us of what we can part with and what we can't, then offers us something new to look forward to, to dream about.