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If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.

Write Lot Above Thing
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A person has to remember that the road to success is always under construction. You have to get that through your head. That it is not easy becoming successful.

Road Success Person Always
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When I read the script [of Glee], the whole premise was that all the high school kids were being cruel to this kid in the wheelchair, and then the quarterback comes along and has a heart of gold and takes him out of a Porta Potty. That's too often what I see in media, that the characters with disabilities are there to make other people seem like heroes for treating the character with a disability with respect. Those are the kinds of roles that are out there.

Hero Heart School Script
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The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.

War Receive Position Enemy
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I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.

Feel Shade Feel Experience
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We'd done a couple of road trips with my big chair, and it was such a hassle if we didn't have the van with the foldout ramp. I figured: There's got to be some option that I can use on the go. Now I can go anywhere with my friends, which is a big, life-changing thing. I can sit on it for as long as I need to.

Couple Long Road trips Hassle
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My experiences of traveling abroad and going to Italy with my father, having to break down a gigantic electric chair to get on trains. You've got three minutes. You go to Pompeii and there are shockingly few accessible hotels in a city that was covered in volcanic ash.

Accessible Experience Traveling Abroad
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I feel a lot of personal responsibility to undo the negative stereotypes. I know that it's not coming from a bad place. It's coming from an ignorant place. I can sort of be an ambassador in a subtle way to say,

Struggle Responsibility Living Ignorant
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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who have helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Better Trust Dark Sunshine
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Over the years, I learned that in my career, unlike in life, sometimes my wheelchair is its own automatic door opener. I was able to win the OWN competition by applying one simple principle: be funny, and admit you suck before anyone else can call you out on it. In other words, make the narrative of your failure a comedy.

Over Career Unlike Life
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Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.

Love Bread Sit Stone
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For me, cerebral palsy wasn't the biggest deal, because I always had it. You know, you always work with what you got.

Got For Cerebral Deal
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We must overcome the notion that we must be regular... it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.

Chance Notion Lead Overcome
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I am waiting outside in the darkness making myself ready for when I go in. So I am thinking as many good thing I can think because if you are thinking good thing, nothing bad is happening to you,

Ready Good Because Myself
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Do not be impatient with your seemingly slow progress. Do not try to run faster than you presently can. If you are studying, reflecting and trying, you are making progress whether you are aware of it or not. A traveler walking the road in the darkness of night is still going forward. Someday, some way, everything will break open, like the natural unfolding of a rosebud.

Slow Break Progress Natural
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When I started going to school, I started getting used to things, like the language. After that, I started adapting to school, friends, and everything. It was really difficult, to start with, but I survived.

School Language Friend Start
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Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.

Endurance Fortune Come Bad
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The main thing is to try to put in your head that we all start from the bottom.

Bottom Start Head Main
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There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.

Happen Week Decade Where
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What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.

Express Print Read Life
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Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Ago Long Time Shade
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I like poems where you don't really know whether to laugh or cry when you read them.

Read Poem Laugh Cry
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When the results are good, everything seems prettier; when things go bad, it seems like all conflicts, personal disputes, and problems arise.

Result Good Seem Arise
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You can call me mercenary, or call me madam, but, as I always tell my customers - just call me anytime.

Call Madam Always You
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We must uphold the fighting of tigers and flies at the same time, resolutely investigating law-breaking cases of leading officials and also earnestly resolving the unhealthy tendencies and corruption problems which happen all around people.

Problem People Around Time
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When you’re trying to bring the streets into rap to prove a point, then you already lost. You separate the two, and that ain’t to be played with. You’ve got people that lost their lives and people that are doing real time. If we gon’ make music, let’s just make music.

Bring Already Lost Separate
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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.

Model Fashion Adveance Good
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Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

Animals Slaves Equal Consider
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I am really driven, but my drive doesn't effect the conversations I have in my head about life, and my worries and fears and insecurities.

Driven Effect Conversation Life
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We thus learn that man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World.

Man Learn Descended Quadruped
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Colonialism bred an innate arrogance, but when you undertake that sort of imperial adventure, that arrogance gives way to a feeling of accommodativeness. You take pride in your openness.

Colonialism Bred Innate Imperial
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They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit.

Leaders Always Elected Habit
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When a mad man walks naked, it is his kinsmen who feel shame, not himself.

Mad Naked Walks Kinsmen
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I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the country because of difference in religion. These are things we should put behind us.

Nigeria Trouble Mistreatment Religion
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In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities; ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and the students into the general public.

Long Idea Down General
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As the egalitarianism of Marxism is attractive to many, socialism could have attracted many followers in America, anyway. But there is no doubt that it could not possibly have affected us so widely and so deeply as it has, had it not been heavily financed.

Socialism America Doubt Affect
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What I learned in jail is that I can't change. I can't live a different lifestyle - this is it. This is the life that they gave and this is the life that I made.

Change Jail Different Lifestyle Learned
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I believe that everything that you do bad comes back to you. So everything that I do that’s bad, I’m going to suffer from it. But in my mind, I believe what I’m doing is right. So I feel like I’m going to heaven.

Believe Everything Bad Good
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Originalism says that when you consult the text, you give it the meaning it had when it was adopted, not some later modern meaning.

Text Adopt Modern Consult
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Forgive but don’t forget, girl keep your head up. And when he tells you you ain’t nothing, don’t believe him. And if he can’t learn to love you, you should leave him.

Forgive Forget Girl Head
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My view is regardless of whether you think prohibiting abortion is good or whether you think prohibiting abortion is bad, regardless of how you come out on that, my only point is the Constitution does not say anything about it. It leaves it up to democratic choice.

Whether Good View Point
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I just don’t know how to deal with so many people giving me that much affection. I never had that in my life.
People Affection Life Deal
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Being a good person begins with being a wise person. Then, when you follow your conscience, will you be headed in the right direction.

Right Good Wise People
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If you tell people, 'that old banger of yours, we're going to tax the hell out of it,' they'll rightly tell you to get lost. But if you tell people that when they next buy a car, the tax will be adjusted so that the cleanest ones will cost less and the polluting ones will cost more, most people would say 'fair enough.'

Tax Old Banger Hell
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By uploading 40 years of 'Ecologist' editions online, we will be creating the world's most extensive ecological archive. 'The Ecologist' will continue to set the environmental and political agenda here and abroad.

Online Years Uploading Archive
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I can only see what's in front of me, but God can see what's behind, what's ahead of me, what's beside me, and it just makes it so much easier to release control, cuz at the end of the day, if He brought me to it, He's gonna have to bring me through it.

Control God See Behind
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For me, staying ready has always been, like, the preparations: do the behind-the-scenes or do what you think that's not sexy that nobody will see, but when they do see it, it's like, 'Oh, snap... what she's doing on her own, we'll add to that, and it'll blow up.'

Me You Ready People
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Climate change - for so long an abstract concern for an academic few - is no longer so abstract. Even the Bush administration's Climate Change Science Programme reports 'clear evidence of human influences on the climate system.

System Climate Change Abstract
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While big business gain subsidies and political access, small businesses drown in red tape, and individuals now risk being classified as terrorists for complaining about it. Economic globalisation is about homogenising differences in the worlds' markets, cultures, tastes and traditions. It's about giving big business access to a global market.

Big Business Political Access
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Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of a social event, the meeting of a book club, is a brilliant idea.

Books Social Writer Speaking
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