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Sleepless' was a script that had been written by three or four other writers before me, and it never really worked, but it had this amazing ending on the top of the Empire State Building that just worked, no matter what came before it.

Amazing Been Before Building
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I have now been married to my third husband for more than 20 years. But when you've had children with someone you're divorced from, divorce defines everything; it's the lurking fact, a slice of anger in the pie of your brain.

Anger Been Brain Children
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One good thing I'd like to say about divorce is that it sometimes makes it possible for you to be a much better wife to your next husband because you have a place for your anger - it's not directed at the person you're currently with.

About Anger Because Better
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The best divorce is the kind where there are no children. That was my first divorce. You walk out the door and you never look back.
Back Best Children Divorce
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I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference.

Never Impressed People Change
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We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness.

Told People Stay Love
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Ultimately, time is all you have and the idea isn't to save it, but to savour it.

Ultimately Time Idea Savour it
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There's a trick to the Graceful Exit. It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, a relationship is over - and to let go. It means leaving what's over without denying its validity or its past importance in our lives.

Graceful exist Vision Life stage Relationship
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The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.

The central Parenthood Hopes Children
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Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential.
Year Walk Flaws Potential
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We want our children to fit in and to stand out. We rarely address the conflict between these goals.

Children Stand out Conflict These goals
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Our 'mistakes' become our crucial parts, sometimes our best parts, of the lives we have made.

Our mistakes Crucial part Best parts
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This packrat has learned that what the next generation will value most is not what we owned, but the evidence of who we were and the tales of how we loved. In the end, it's the family stories that are worth the storage.

Learned Next generation Value most
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We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives.

We owned Learned Experience Growth
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We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave us more? How many of us always let them off the hook?

We criticize Mothers Fathers
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Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed.
Age Accumulation Life Adulthood
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The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves.

The things Real Ourselves
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Women have gained access to the institutions, but not enough power to overhaul them.
Women Gained access Power
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Forty is ... an age at which people have histories and options. At thirty, they had perhaps less history. At fifty, perhaps fewer options.

Forty People Histories Options
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Today, much of journalism and politics are in a kind of collusion to oversimplify and personalize issues. No room for ambivalence. Plenty of room for the personal attack.

Journalism Politics Collusion Oversimplify
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I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

Atom Every Glow Magnificent
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I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

Ashes Atom Dust Every
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A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

Bone Charity Dog Hungry
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You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
After Club Go Inspiration
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The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Days Exist Function Live
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There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.

Alive Beyond Cannot Complete
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Affluence means influence.

Affluence Influence Means
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San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories.

Francisco Gone Memories Nothing
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The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.

Class God His Mother
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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
Cash Come Fame Without
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
Cards Good Hand Holding
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Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?

Continually Darn Gear Must
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One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

Cannot Having Itself Nature
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I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

Acres Add Beauty Belongs
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
Interpret Life Rather Short
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Do you know the only value life has is what life puts on itself?

Do You Know Itself Know Life
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Everyone deserves to be free and in every space.

Everyone Deserves Free Space
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No one is free until everyone is free; And this is why we fight!

No one Free Fight
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Once we begin to see women as humans with as much right to occupy spaces as men. We would have removed the foundation upon which gender-based violence thrives.

Begin See women Humans Occupy spaces
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Freedom is exercising your rights getting an education without the fear of sexual harassment.

Freedom Your right Education Sexual harassment
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It’s time we moved the shame from victim to perpetrator. They’re the ones that should be ashamed.

Time We move Shame Victim
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…In reality, we are all losing. We’re losing our planet to plastic. Reduce, reuse, recycle.
Reality Losing Our planet Plastic
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Slowly but surely, I’m going to build myself a fantastic portfolio.

Slowly But surely Build myself
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Don’t be ashamed of your church, your religion, your faith. But don’t be silent.

Be ashamed Church Religion Faith
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…Do not be indifferent because your silence makes you complicit. And do not wait until a problem gets to your doorstep before you demand justice.

Indifferent Silence Complicit
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Success means different things to different people and it’s okay if it’s money. You may not be famous but if your craft fetches you the money, you’re not a failure!

Success Money Famous
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It’s okay if it’s fame you aspire for. Your goal can be to ensure your name is on the lips of every household and that’s valid too.

Fame Aspire for Name Household
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…It’s okay to want to make a difference. It’s not cheesy, don’t let them tell you otherwise.
Okay Difference Cheesy
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…There are days when passion won’t see you through but the purpose will.
Are days Passion You through Purpose will
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Give yourself permission to be free. Letting go isn’t always easy, but it’s always worth it.

Give Permission Free Letting go
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