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I'm poised to take any opportunity, I'm poised to keep myself in tip-top shape because that's what I love to do.

Any Because I Love Keep
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I don't want to be the guy who, 'Oh, he's falling apart. He's a little punchy. Maybe it's time to stop.'

Apart Falling Guy He
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I've had a great run. I've been a world champ. I've been a top contender. I've been a poster boy for the organization, for sponsorships, been able to do a lot.

Able Been Boy Champ
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Fighting Michael McDonald was awesome.

Awesome Fighting McDonald Michael
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I'm not very experienced with boys or the whole dating thingy.

Boy Dating Experienced Very
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I'm really an outdoorsy girl. People think I can't go anywhere without getting all primped up, but I love to go camping, and I'm totally fine with not doing my hair or makeup, not taking a shower and just hiking.

Anywhere Camping Doing Fine
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I need guys who are dangerous to go out and have my best performance.

Best Dangerous Go Guys
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I've always had problems with guys!

Always Guys Had Problems
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When you relate to a disease, you're afraid. When you relate to a person, there is compassion. You see someone that is like you, that could be like you. You can see yourself in that same situation.

Afraid Compassion Could Disease
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European authors often write books about the rest of the world that profess a vision of shared humanity but fall far short, casting the other as exotic or dangerous.

About Authors Books Casting
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Memoir is a difficult literary form to pull off when dealing with discrete and poignant moments in a life, even harder when seeking to narrate over 80 years of existence.

Dealing Difficult Even Existence
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In my senior year of high school, I read an article in 'Newsweek' about child soldiers in Sierra Leone. I felt a sense of shock - this was happening in the region where I'm from, and people don't know about it. I wanted to understand.

About Article Child Felt
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Medicine has an immediate impact, the ability to do good. Writing is such a solitary activity.
Ability Activity Good Good Writing
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Many great novels have shown a world torn to shreds by the brutality of war. To do so, their authors ground their texts in the details of destruction and decay.

Authors Brutality Decay Destruction
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There is no African, myself included, who does not appreciate the help of the wider world, but we do question whether aid is genuine or given in the spirit of affirming one's cultural superiority.

African Aid Appreciate Cultural
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Why do Angelina Jolie and Bono receive overwhelming attention for their work in Africa while Nwankwo Kanu or Dikembe Mutombo, Africans both, are hardly ever mentioned?

Africa African Angelina Jolie Attention
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Africa wants the world to acknowledge that through fair partnerships with other members of the global community, we ourselves are capable of unprecedented growth.

Acknowledge Africa Capable Community
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Kidnapping causes a long-term rupture in the psyche of those kidnapped and of those who wait for their return. It doesn't end.

Causes End Kidnapped Kidnapping
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The kidnapped person is so tantalizingly close, kept alive by a devastating hope. Kidnapping or hostage-taking is perhaps the most disturbing form of terror because it turns this hope into a liability that can paralyze.

Alive Because Close Devastating
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I don't know if I want to be a writer.

Know Want A Writer
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Sometimes writing it is a good way to understand something.
Good Good Way Something Sometimes
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It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

Been Evil Love Money
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Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.

Character Chisel Complete Life
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

Animal Laughs Legislature Man
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It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.

Actions Conscious Less Lives
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I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

Colored Day More Night
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I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

Heart Lost Mind Process
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I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.

Am Being Far God
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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Anything Attempt Courage Had
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If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Cannot Hear Means Paint
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The best way to know God is to love many things.

Best God Know Love
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Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

Disregard Duty Faith Opinion
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I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners.
Corners Drawings Hut Pictures
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In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

Again Discouragement Drawing Everything
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The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

Ashore Dangerous Dangers Fishermen
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Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.

Derives Life Own Painter
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I've always wanted to play Maria in West Side Story. My idol is Natalie Wood, and I love the movie, so I think a modern-day twist on it would be really neat.

Always I Love I Think Idol
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If people don't like me for whatever I do, for being me, then that's too bad. I don't want to change to be something that I'm not for other people to like me.

Bad Being Change Like
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If you have your eye set on somebody, don't beat around the bush.
Around Beat Bush Eye
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My first real kiss came when I was 10, and it was in an acting class. I had to do a scene from a movie where someone gets kissed under a tree, and I did not want to do it! But my acting partner wanted me to feel comfortable, so he bought a picnic basket with all these snacks. He made such an effort - and it was cute.

Acting Acting Class Basket Bought
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My passion is doing movies, and as long as I keep doing that, I'll be happy. I want to do movies, fun roles and dramatic ones. I love all of it.

Be Happy Doing Dramatic Fun
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My passion is doing movies, so as long as I keep doing that I will be happy.

Be Happy Doing Happy Keep
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So many people try to grow up too fast, and it's not fun! You should stay a kid as long as possible!

Fast Fun Grow Grow Up
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The Lion King always makes me cry, especially when Simba's father gets trampled.

Always Cry Father Gets
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The second I met Zac, I thought he was a really cool guy. It's hard not to have chemistry with someone who is so attractive.

Attractive Chemistry Cool Cool Guy
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The sweetest thing a guy said is that I look pretty with or without makeup.

Guy Look Makeup Pretty Said
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Touring is tough. You're almost in a haze because you don't really know where you are half the time: You're in a hotel room one moment, and the next thing you know, you're onstage performing for 60,000 people, then you're back on an airplane. It's very hectic and I couldn't do it without my family.

Airplane Almost Back Because
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My advice to kids is give it your all! Give it 110 percent and don't give up!

Advice Give Kids Percent
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It's just about keeping people who are close to me, near. It's important to have people around who love themselves, are true to themselves, who have their own hobbies and their world doesn't revolve around Hollywood.

About Around Close Hobbies
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A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.

Amount Date Even Getting
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