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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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At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.

Home Growing Up Weren't
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I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. It's a relief to accept that not everything is under your control.

Used Think Religion Just
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“The experience of helping a fellow man in danger, or even of training in a realistic manner to be ready to give this help, tends to change the balance of power in a youth's inner life with the result that compassion can become the master motive.”

Experience Fellow Danger Training
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“Whenever you have to deal with a boy who is a rebel, remember that you must not fail at some time or other to get him to face the question, Are you going to be a fighter or quarreler?”

Remember Boy Rebel Fail
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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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“Entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy. ”

Entertainment Devil Joy
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Start going to bed earlier! It is a tough adjustment when you have had a summer of staying up late and waking up late.

Adjustment Bed Earlier Going
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I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.

Live Rural Part Virginia
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I know that some girls look up to me for certain things, like dyslexia, and that way I know that they like me for me, so it adds no pressure.

Adds Certain CertainThings Dyslexia
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I don't have to try to be perfect because I know that my fans like me for who I am. They like me because I am weird and kind of funky, but still really calm.

Am Because Calm Fans
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My dad would call me his Cuban princess because I had really dark olive skin because I was always in the sun; but I don't really go in the sun anymore, so that is why I am so white.

Always Am Anymore Because
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“When there’s something in the Bible that churches don’t like, they call it legalism.”

Something Bible Churches Legalism
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“One of these days some simple soul will pick up the book of God, read it, and believe it. Then the rest of us will be embarrassed.”

God Book Days Believe
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“Entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy. The more joy you have in the Lord the less entertainment you need.”

Entertainment Devil Joy Lord
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“LORD strengthen me where I am too weak and weaken me where I am too strong!”

Lord Strengthen Weak Strong
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“The Gospel is not an old, old story, freshly told. It is a fire in the Spirit, fed by the flame of Immortal Love; and woe unto us, if, through our negligence to stir up the Gift of God which is within us, that fire burns low.”

Gospel Old Story Freshly
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I personally don't think you can love two things like dancing and singing the same exact amount. There is always one that you like more, and that is most likely the one that you're better at, because you try harder in it.

Always Amount Because Better
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“Some Day Someone is going to pick up this book (The Bible) and believe it, and put us all to shame.”

Someday Pick book Bible Shame
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“The opportunity of a lifetime needs to be seized during the lifetime of the opportunity.”

Opportunity Lifetime Needs Sized
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“If Thou canst do something with us and through us, then please, God, do something without us! Bypass us and take up a people who now know Thee not!”

God Bypass Something
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I'm really into tall boots. I just got some new ones from Michael Kors that have these little gold studs. I have Valentino ones that I really love. Real, real tall boots!

Boots Gold Got Just
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My big break was becoming the spokesperson for Texas Instruments. Casting directors really started giving me a chance to read for projects.

Becoming Big BigBreak Break
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“You will breathe throughout your life, every moment of it, but an opportunity like this comes once in a lifetime, and not even to everyone. Go for it!”
Breathe Life Moment Opportunity
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“You have to let go of memories that are holding on to you in order to make space for the ones that are waiting to enter your life. You are blocking your future by sticking to the past in your present.”

Memories Holding Space Life
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My family was absolutely supportive. I did have a fear of cold reads because of my dyslexia, but my family's support and reading classes really helped me overcome my fear!

Absolutely Because Classes Cold
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I do have many of the same friends I grew up with. Most I've known since we were three or four years old! I have made new friends as well.

Four Friends Grew Known
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You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.

Build Failure Stepping Stone
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My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my father never hit me. Never. I don't ever remember a really cross, unkind word from my father.

Father Love Death Field
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Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.

Sometimes People Two Cash
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When I record somebody else's song, I have to make it my own or it doesn't feel right. I'll say to myself, I wrote this and he doesn't know it!

Record Song Feel Somebody
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People call me wild. Not really though, I'm not. I guess I've never been normal, not what you call Establishment. I'm country.

People Never Really Normal
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We need to avoid the spiritual sickness of a church that is wrapped up in its own world: when a church becomes like this, it grows sick.

Avoid Becomes Church Grows
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I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television.

Shy Spend Time Reading
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Men want a woman whom they can turn on and off like a light switch.
Light Like Men Off
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In Europe first and now in America, elected men have taken it upon themselves to indebt their people to create an atmosphere of dependency. And why? For their own selfish need to increase their own personal power.

America Atmosphere Create Dependency
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Older women are best, because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.

Always Because Best Doing
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I don't regard James Bond precisely as a hero, but at least he does get on and do his duty, in an extremely corny way.

Bond Corny Does Duty
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If I wait for the genius to come, it just doesn't arrive.

Arrive Come Genius Just
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It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.
Caused Men Short Trouble
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The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the blood of Christ: all of us, not just Catholics. Everyone! 'Father, the atheists?' Even the atheists. Everyone!

Atheists Blood Catholics Christ
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Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.
Adversity Causes Men Break
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To say that you can kill in the name of God is blasphemy.

Blasphemy God Name Say
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Among us, who is above must be in service of the others. This doesn't mean we have to wash each other's feet every day, but we must help one another.

Above Among Another Day
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If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.

Imagine Achieve Dream
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Everyone suffers some injustice in life, and what better motivation than to help others not suffer in the same way.
Better Everyone Help HelpOthers
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The Pope loves everyone, rich and poor alike, but the Pope has the duty, in Christ's name, to remind the rich to help the poor, to respect them, to promote them.

Alike Christ Duty Everyone
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