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One day, you might look up and see me playing the game at 50. Don’t laugh. Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.

Might Game Limit Often
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I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot… when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.

Never Consequences Negative Result
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If it turns out that my best wasn’t good enough, at least I won’t look back and say I was afraid to try.

Enough Afraid Best Turns
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Never run back to what broke you.

Broke Never Run Back
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I don't do a comic book thinking there is a movie. I just want it to be as good a comic book as it can be.

Mvie Comic Book Thinking
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Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are a bourbon biscuit.

Lover Bourbon Biscuit Look
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Painting completed my life. I lost three children and a series of other things that would have fulfilled my horrible life. My painting took the place of all of this. I think work is the best.

Painting Children Fulfilled Horrible
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Often, problems are knots with many strands, and looking at those strands can make a problem seem different.

Different Strands Problem Knot
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If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
Write Read Book Written
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We are in an environment where people who have boils all over their faces will look at me that has just 1 pimple on my cheek and try to tell me what cream to use. People hide in the shadow and say stuff.

Stuff Shadow Hide Cream
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When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.'

Scary Helpers People Mother
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It is, I think, enough for me to say that life itself is, from the cradle to the grave, a series of unbroken risks. I make no boast about this, but those who know me intimately will testify to the fact that I have never, at any time, shrunk from taking my full share of the risks which life, with its unending opportunities and vicissitudes, offers.

Enough Life Series Unbroken
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I've always liked to dress up; I've always liked to look good. You look good, you feel good, you play good.

Always Dress Feel Good
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Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive

Book Heart Close Articulate
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When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.

Back Decide Happen Happening
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Any book that can help you survive the slings and arrows of adolescence is a book to love for life; 'The Catcher in the Rye' did just that, and I still do love it.

Adolescence Any Arrows Book
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Sitting in my favorite coffeehouse with a new notebook and a hot cup of java is my idea of Heaven.

Cup Favorite Heaven Hot
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I got married in Florence, Italy. My husband and I were in love but totally broke, so we eloped and got married in Italy, where he was going on a business trip. We had to pull a guy off the street to be our witness. It was incredibly romantic. Florence is still one of my favorite cities in the world.

Broke Business Cities Favorite
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Naming my favorite books feels like naming a favorite child - impossible.

Child Favorite Feels Impossible
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I love to be scared. Not, 'Hey, I think I smell smoke...' scared, but creepy, paranoid, what's-that-out-there-in-the-dark, ghost story scared. It's no surprise that I was the girl who got invited to the slumber parties because I could be counted on to tell a tale to scare the bejesus out of you.

Because Could Counted Creepy
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I was a big reader as a kid, but it was 'Charlotte's Web' that showed me you could feel as if you were actually living inside a book.

Actually Big Book Charlotte
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My joke is that my father was a minister and my mother was an English teacher, so I'm trained to see the world in terms of symbols, which is hard when you just want to make toast.

Father Hard Joke Just
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The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society.

Devastating Punch September Society
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Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to.

American Free Freedom Idea
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When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.

About Crashed Franklin Roosevelt
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Now, people when I say that look at me and say, 'What are you talking about, Joe? You're telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?'. The answer is yes, that's what I'm telling you.

About Answer Bankrupt Go
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I grew up being very shy, very much a bookworm, and I remember desperately wondering how to be accepted by the popular kids.

Accepted Being Desperately Grew
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I have always been an obsessive reader - I remember going back and forth to the local library with stacks of books taller than I was.

Always Back Been Book
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I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive.

Building Create Culture Even
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It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you need to worry about, is really finishing it.

About Book Easy Finishing
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The sooner you learn to finish things, and as a matter of course finish your creative endeavors, the better. It took me a long time to learn that.

Better Course Creative Endeavors
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Dialogue is the place that books are most alive and forge the most direct connection with readers. It is also where we as writers discover our characters and allow them to become real.

Alive Allow Also Become
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Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

Look Fortune Blind Invisible
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The past always looks better than it was; it's only pleasant because it isn't here.

Here Past Pleasant Better
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When the American people get through with the English language, it will look as if it had been run over by a musical comedy.

People Musical Comedy English
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Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead.

Dead Fail Guilt Prevent
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The hero of the book does long to experience God. But his conception of God is very western.

Book Conception Does Experience
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I look like a casual, laid-back guy, but it's like a circus in my head.

Casual Circus Guy Head
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I hooked up my accelerator pedal in my car to my brake lights. I hit the gas, people behind me stop, and I'm gone.

Behind Brake Car Gas
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I replaced the headlights in my car with strobe lights, so it looks like I'm the only one moving.

Headlights Lights Like Looks
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I wrote a few children's books... not on purpose.

Books Children Few Purpose
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I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams

Dream Life Interpret Looking
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.

Books Funny Little Pieces
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Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small.

Obstacle Look Large Challenge
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The whole foundation of Christianity is based on the idea that intellectualism is the work of the Devil. Remember the apple on the tree? Okay, it was the Tree of Knowledge. You eat this apple, you're going to be as smart as God. We can't have that.

Devil Foundation Work Apple
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Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.

Wild Liable Eye Squarely
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I came into music just because I wanted the bread. It's true. I looked around and this seemed like the only way I was going to get the kind of bread I wanted.

Around Because Bread Came
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I think science fiction helps us think about possibilities, to speculate - it helps us look at our society from a different perspective. It lets us look at our mores, using science as the backdrop, as the game changer.

About Backdrop Different Different Perspective
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We look at science as something very elite, which only a few people can learn. That's just not true. You just have to start early and give kids a foundation. Kids live up, or down, to expectations.

Down Early Elite Expectations
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The best books are those which lift us to a higher plane where we breathe a purer atmosphere.
Books Those Which Lift
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