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In many ways, I've chosen to be plain, almost too plain, too self-effacing. Like, if I record a vocal and I don't like the way it sounds, I would have them turn it up and take the reverb off it to make it as plain as possible.

Almost Chosen Like Make
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Your home is your Ark. Stay in and save lives. Let us beat the Virus together.
Ark Home Virus Together
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Never forget how beautiful and powerful you are and there's nothing you set your mind to that you can’t achieve

Beautiful Powerful Mind You
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God has blessed us with all the qualities, it’s left to us to search within ourselves and find our unique qualities and strengths

God Blessed Qualities Unique
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A man's pride can be his downfall, and he needs to learn when to turn to others for support and guidance.
Downfall Guidance His Learn
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Survival is not about being fearless. It's about making a decision, getting on and doing it, because I want to see my kids again, or whatever the reason might be.

About Again Because Being
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But the wild is unpredictable, stuff does happen, and it's always when you're least expecting it.

Always Does Expecting Happen
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The rewards of the wild and the rewards of the survivor go to those who can dig deep, and, ultimately, to the guy who can stay alive.

Alive Deep Dig Go
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I've never really had a TV career. I've been a soldier and a climber.

Been Career Climber Had
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I try and eat really healthy when I'm home, but I certainly don't eat worms and snakes.

Certainly Eat Healthy Home
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I think viewers quite like it when I'm suffering or eating or drinking something horrible or really up against it in some quicksand or whatever.

Against Drinking Eating Horrible
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My favorite moments? Where it's all going swimmingly, the sun's out and I've got a fire going and a nice snake on the barbecue.

Barbecue Favorite Fire Going
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We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.

We Are Animals Born
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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.

Wats Elections Both Are
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You only get one chance at life and you have to grab it boldly.

Boldly Chance Get Grab
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My faith is an important part of my life and over the years I've learnt that it takes a proud man to say he doesn't need anything. It has been a quiet strength and a backbone through a lot of difficult times.

Anything Backbone Been Difficult
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Life's full of lots of dream-stealers always telling you you need to do something more sensible. I think it doesn't matter what your dream is, just fight the dream-stealers and hold onto it.

Always Dream Fight Full
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What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.

What Keeps You Going
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Dancing inspires my music. Having your girlfriends all together and just being free and happy.

Being Dancing Free Girlfriends
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.

The Very Least You
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What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.

What You Loose Blindness
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Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.

Stop Minute Right Where
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Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.

Small Change Wonders These
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Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.

Fiction Essays Can Create
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I don't want to be that girl who has that same style all the time where the music always sounds exactly the same, and you always know it's her.

Always Exactly ExactlyTheSame Girl
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When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another person for the duration.

When You Pick Up
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My father is Cuban. Spanish was my first language, but I don't speak it that much anymore because I had dyslexia, and in school they work with you only in English. But I'm proud to be Latina, and most people don't know I am.

Am Anymore Because Cuban
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Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.

Empathy Really The Opposite
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It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.

Seems Very Safe Me
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There's always a part of your nation's history that you haven't been told that... has a powerful impact on how you yourself may behave and may believe.

There's Always Part Your
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I don't understand how any good art could fail to be political.

Don't Understand How Good
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The man's world must become a man's and a woman's world. Why are we afraid?

Man World Woman Afraid
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Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.

Good Novels Fiction Creates
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My one aim and concentrated purpose shall be and is to show that women can learn, can reason, can compete with men in the grand fields of literature and science . . .

Aim Concentrated Women Learn
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It is the next step forward on the path to the sunrise, and the sun is rising over a new heaven and a new earth.

Sunrise Next Step Heaven
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Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'.

Every Time Write New
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. . . a woman can be a woman and a true one without having all her time engrossed by dress and society.

Woman True Engrossed Dress
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I wish the air were pure oxygen, and then as it says in our chemistry book, our life would sweep through its fevered burning course in a few hours and we would live in a perfect delirium of excitement and would die vibrating with passion, for anything would be better than this lazy sluggish life.

Passion Oxygen Chemistry Book
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I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense of the future and my attachment to it.

Count All The Way
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I practice reading all the time. I read everything and having so many scripts to read, which really helps out as well.

Everything Having Helps Many
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I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.

Grew Up Aware All
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“I regard it as the foremost task of education to insure the survival of these qualities: an enterprising curiosity, an undefeatable spirit, tenacity in pursuit, readiness for sensible self denial, and above all, compassion”

Regards Education Task Survival
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“There exists within everyone a grand passion, an outlandish thirst for adventure, a desire to live boldly and vividly through the journey of life.
Exist Everyone Passion Thirst
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Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave. I never get over being thankful for that - for the courage of my readers.

Readers Fiction Read Think
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“Education must enable young people to effect what they have recognized to be right, despite hardships, despite dangers, despite inner skepticism, despite boredom, and despite mockery from the world. . . .”

Education Young Effect Right
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My morning begins with trying not to get up before the sun rises. But when I do, it's because my head is too full of words, and I just need to get to my desk and start dumping them into a file.

Morning Begins With Trying
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It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.

It's Funny Thing People
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For me, writing time has always been precious, something I wait for and am eager for and make the best use of. That's probably why I get up so early and have writing time in the quiet dawn hours, when no one needs me.

For Me Writing Always
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Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it.

Every Time Step Onto
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Motherhood is so sentimentalised and romanticised in our culture. It's practically against the law to say there are moments in the day when you hate your children. Everyone actually has those moments.

Motherhood So Sentimentalised Romanticism
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