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I read numerous books - loads in fact - and, as I always do when recording a historical project, immersed myself into the subject matter. I spent many hours at Henry's old homes, such as Hampton Court, and visiting the Tower of London. I read no other books during that period. ↗

— Rick Wakeman

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I'm always writing or playing because that is my life. ↗

— Rick Wakeman

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Sometimes the archaism of the language when it's spoken is why we are all in love with the Irish today. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

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I've been married three times and divorced three times. ↗

— Rick Wakeman

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The studio is not the place to write. You need to be 75% ready when you go into the studio, and then the music can develop to the next stage. ↗

— Rick Wakeman

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I did not come to Washington to raise the electricity rates by as much as $40 per month as this plan would do. ↗

— Greg Walden

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I think that's what poetry does. It allows people to come together and identify with a common thing that is outside of themselves, but which they identify with from the interior. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

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American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

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American poets celebrate their bodies, very specifically, as Whitman did. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

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Because, in fact, women, feminists, do read my poetry, and they read it often with the power of their political interpretation. I don't care; that's what poetry is supposed to do. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

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