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I hated high school. I didn't have any friends because I didn't fit in.

Hated School Friend Fit
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I wish there were people when I was young that I had a respect for and looked up to that I could have been guided by. I didn't have that, and I really do wish I did because I think I would've learned a lot more.

Wish People Young Respect
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Having a family just changes your perspective on everything. For me, it was the greatest thing that's ever happened to me.

Having Family Change Perspective
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I like performing. I like partnering with an audience.

Audience Attitude Like Performing
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People see me and they squeal like tropical birds or seals stranded on the beach.
Beach Birds Like Me
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No, as it turns out, I really like being congratulated on my weight loss. I like it so much, it's tragic.

Being Like Loss Much
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I have a chemical imbalance that, in its most extreme state, will lead me to a mental hospital.

Chemical Extreme Hospital Imbalance
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The world of manic depression is a world of bad judgment calls.
Bad Calls Depression Judgment
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I am mentally ill. I can say that. I am not ashamed of that. I survived that, I'm still surviving it, but bring it on. Better me than you.

Am Ashamed Better Bring
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Certainly there are people who like me, but then there are those who don't know me who gossip about me. You can't believe the things I've heard.

About Believe Certainly Gossip
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I am a very discreet human when it comes to other people.

Am Discreet Human I Am
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I'm very sane about how crazy I am.

About Am Crazy How
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Mothers are great. They outlast everything. But when they're bad, they're the worst thing that can happen.

Bad Everything Great Happen
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Anything you can do in excess for the wrong reasons is exciting to me.

Anything Excess Exciting Me
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It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

About Artist Beyond Excess
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Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.
Bodies Great Never People
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Everything is negotiable. Whether or not the negotiation is easy is another thing.
Another Easy Everything Negotiation
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There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.

Arm Brains Clothes Hearts
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I'll never be known for my work with boundaries.

Boundaries Known Never Work
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The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

Emancipation History Interesting Itself
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There's a line I have that our family was designed more for public than for private. But there are definitely some things that are only mine. I am someone who dreams at night, and you don't know what I'm dreaming.

Am Definitely Designed Dreaming
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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
Friends Go Others People
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If anything, my mother taught me how to sur-thrive. That's my word for it.

Anything How Me Mother
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Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.
Alone Frame Habit Human
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My father was a joyous, joyous spirit, he really was. He was a hedonist, that was just - he enjoyed life, thrust up to the elbows with it. He was a terrible father. I don't know that he was parented that well.

Elbows Enjoyed Father He
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Happiness is the ability to recognize it.
Happiness Ability Recognize
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Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.

Art Human Human Nature Like
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Mistakes are a drag, because you get in the area of regret and self-pity.

Area Because Drag Get
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Nonsense makes the heart grow fonder.

Nonsense Makes Heart Grow
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If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

About Compared Could Friendly
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Actions lie louder than words.

Actions Lie Louder Words
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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Arranged Beginning Consciousness End
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Females get hired along procreative lines. After 40, we're kind of cooked.

After Along Cooked Females
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Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.
Advice One Things Blessed
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A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.

About Curtain Draw Essay
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There is no point at which you can say, 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'

Might Nap No Point Now
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My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?

Always Brain Buried Diving
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Two of the saddest words in the English language are, 'What party?' And L.A. is the 'What party?' capital of the world.

Capital English English Language Language
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I am more fond of achieving than striving. My theories must prove to be facts or be discarded as worthless. My efforts must soon be crowned with success, or discontinued.

Fond Achieving Striving Theories
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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

Eyes Others Our Prisons
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I started out doing my mother's nightclub act, and I had stage fright.

Act Doing Fright Had
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We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

Best Creating Finding Following
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A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.

Right Moment Better Cleverness
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Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.

Boredom Kingdom Legitimate Philanthropic
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Take care of your common sense, and your dignity will take care of itself.

Care Take Common Sense
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The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.

Body Essence Gives His
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I found out when I did the Oprah Winfrey show that there was a cookie jar of me. So she gave it to me. I had no idea prior to that that it even existed.

Cookie Did Even Existed
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To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.

Depend Father Form Less
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Patriotism covers a multitude of sins.

Patriotism Multitude Sins
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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
Control Enjoy Freedom Ourselves
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