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"1355 Personality Quotes

My whole thing is I just always wanted to be a working actor and I just wanted to stop waiting tables.

Actor Always Just Stop
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Absolutely father knows best, always do what your fathers say, and if you can't find one then just ask me, I am a father and I know best.

Absolutely Always Am Ask
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I love theme parks but I'm a real chicken on rides. I'd rather invent scary rides for my books than go on them for real.

Books Chicken Go ILove
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Ralph Waldo Emerson would definitely be my homeboy.

Definitely Ralph Would
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My brain is so anxiety-prone, like a pinball machine. If I don't get up in the morning and focus my thinking, my breathing, and my being for about 12 minutes, I'm just a screwball all day long.

About All Day Being Brain
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I was a total dork in high school.

Dork High School Total
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I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.

Clown Fine Know Like
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I feel that good fantasy will always be in demand. I think children especially need literature that helps them escape from the real world, which is very scary to them right now.

Always Children Demand Escape
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The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.

Conformity Everyone Likes Reward
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I think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording me the opportunity to show off.

Approach Because Choose Comic
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I've met many irresponsible people in my life but never an irresponsible cat.

Cat Irresponsible Life Many
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I do get cynical, but what can you do? It doesn't make any difference.

Any Cynical Difference Get
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I know I come off differently than I think of myself. I'm always surprised by what people say about me.

About Always Come Differently
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Donald Trump would have been worse than Iddi Amin if he had been a President in a country without strong systems and institutions.

Donald Trump Iddi Amin President Country
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I was appointed Poet Laureate. It came totally out of the blue because most Poet Laureates had been considerably older than I. It was not something that I even had begun to dream about!

About Appointed Because Been
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I love to shop after a bad relationship. I don't know. I buy a new outfit and it makes me feel better. It just does. Sometimes I see a really great outfit, I'll break up with someone on purpose.

After Bad Better Break
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Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

Get How Humanity Lose
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I'm a very simple person. I'm very shallow. Shallow, simple, easily pleased: that's me.

Easily Me Person Pleased
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I don't like when there's too much conversation because I'm shy and it makes me uncomfortable.

Because Conversation Like Makes
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I get a lot of return business. I think it's all those years I put in traveling around the country; people saw me before and had a good time so they want to see me again.

Again Around Before Business
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I like working-class people, generally speaking.

Generally Like People Speaking
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I'm a practical person. I'm not too bad a carpenter. I can renovate houses.

Bad Carpenter Houses I Can
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I have a dead goat syndrome
Dead Goat Syndrome
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Sure, being a reservist wasn't as glamorous, but I was the one who had to look at myself in the mirror.

Being Glamorous Had Look
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Being Poet Laureate made me realize I was capable of a larger voice. There is a more public utterance I can make as a poet.

Being Capable Larger Laureate
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I keep the drafts of each poem in color-coded folders. I pick up the folders according to how I feel about that color that day.

About According Color Day
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When I was living in New York, there was a lot of screaming in my life. I would just get into these altercations all the time. Being in public, dealing with shopkeepers, just trying to cross the street - things like that.

Being Cross Dealing Get
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I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive.

Ability Alive Come Extremely
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I'm not quite as anonymous as I was.

Anonymous Was As Quite
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I am not a has-been. I am a will be.
Am Has-Been I Am Will
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I am essentially a loner.
Am Essentially I Am Loner
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Buddha's teaching are very simple, you don't have to break your head to understand the message. The part that I like the most from Buddha's teachings and from His Holiness, The Dalai Lama, is that the most powerful weapon is to not attack, to be able to have self-control.

Able Attack Break Buddha
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I'm not a sedentary person. I've always been active.

Active Always Been Person
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I'm a total Democrat. I'm anti-Republican. And it's only fair that you know it... I'm liberal. The L word!

Democrat Fair Know Liberal
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'Rather You Than Me' just speaks for my natural instinct to survive, but it's also me being a writer, me being a poet - there's also a beautiful side to 'Rather You Than Me.'

Also Beautiful Being Instinct
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I don't drink but to all the pain! All my scars are beautiful.

Drink Pain Scars Beautiful
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I don't mind arguing with myself. It's when I lose that it bothers me.

Arguing Bothers Lose Me
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I keep a quotes journal - of every sentence that I've wanted to remember from my reading of the past 30 years.

Every Journal Keep Past
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Out of grad school, I worked as a tech writer for a while before going into computer coding for a living.

Before Computer Going Grad
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The people who raised us left Themselves in Us, some in tiny particles and some a whole lot. It would take certain events for those particles to reveal themselves. Be careful my dear, Not all attributes are Yours

People Be careful Reveal Particles
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I would say the flip side to my fascination with systems is a fascination with components. So many of my books are dialogues between little and big.

Between Big Books Components
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Everything interests me.
Everything Interests
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I like to travel and connect.

Connect Like Travel
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Until I was 42, I could fit everything that I owned into two suitcases.

Could Everything Fit Owned
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I don’t care how beautiful/handsome you look, if your personality sucks, you are damn right UGLY.

Personality Beautiful Handsome Ugly
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My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands!

Certainly Feel Going Hands
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You know it is not my interest to pay the principal, or my principal to pay the interest.

Interest Know Pay Principal
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I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me.

Away Behind Business Character
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Do thou snatch treasures from my lips, and I'll take kingdoms back from thine.

Back Kingdoms Lips Take
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The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.

Fatigue Indeed Judging Number
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