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I'm really good at writing 'almost hits'.

Almost Good Hits Really
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The press is like any business. It's a group of really intelligent individuals that ends up being one slathering, one-eyed, drooling monster.

Any Being Business Ends
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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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Adventure should be 80 percent 'I think this is manageable,' but it's good to have that last 20 percent where you're right outside your comfort zone. Still safe, but outside your comfort zone.

Adventure Comfort Zone Good
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Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.

After Been Courage Days
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Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.

Bit Hard How Look
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I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up.

Always Baptist Growing Hood
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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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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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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

Sometimes The Strength Motherhood
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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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I don't understand how any good art could fail to be political.

Don't Understand How Good
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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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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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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 have suffered from bullying in many ways, from bullying in school due to my disability in reading, to digital abuse that I deal with on a daily basis. I'd like to tell the kids that are being bullied that no one should have to deal with the abuse, ever!

Abuse Basis Being Bullied
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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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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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After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.

After Poisonous Bible Was
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Most every book I bring into the world is like birthing a baby; it's a lot of effort!

Most Every Book Bring
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The first sentence of a book is a promise.

First Sentence Book Promise
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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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“There are two kinds of people in the world—only two kinds. Not black or white, rich or poor, but those either dead in sin or dead to sin.”
Kinds People World Black
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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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“LORD strengthen me where I am too weak and weaken me where I am too strong!”

Lord Strengthen Weak Strong
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“Satan fools and feigns, blows and bluffs, and we so often take his threats to heart and forget the

Satan Feigns Bluffs Threats
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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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I like clean-cut, very proper, very elegant looks.
Elegant Like Looks Proper
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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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“Destiny is always a doorstep away, if we know to move in the right direction.”

Destiny Doorstep Move Direction
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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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I want people to look at my films and say 'Wow, she's a good actress', and I know I'll have to work hard for that.

Actress Films Good Hard
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You've got to know your limitations. I don't know what your limitations are. I found out what mine were when I was twelve. I found out that there weren't too many limitations, if I did it my way.

Limitations Mine Know Way
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I start a lot more songs than I finish, because I realize when I get into them, they're no good. I don't throw them away, I just put them away, store them, get them out of sight.

Songs Finish Realize Good
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When my wife died, I booked myself into the studio just to work, to occupy myself.
Died Booked Studio Work
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Right now, we don't have a very good relation with creation.
Creation Good Now Relation
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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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You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.

Born Death Face Live
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We all have the duty to do good.
Duty Good We All
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Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.
Opportunities Sunrises Long Miss
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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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Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.

Forgiveness Funny Warms Heart
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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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Bond reflected that good Americans were fine people and that most of them seemed to come from Texas.

American Bond Come Fine
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In the Church, and in the journey of faith, women have had and still have a special role in opening doors to the Lord.

Church Doors Faith Had
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I kind of think too much, I try do too many things at once.
Kind Many Much Once
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The Roman Curia has its defects, but it seems to me that people often overemphasize its defects and talk too little about the health of the many religious and laypeople who work there.

About Defects Health Little
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If investments in banks fall, it is a tragedy, and people say, 'What are we going to do?' but if people die of hunger, have nothing to eat or suffer from poor health, that's nothing.

Banks Die Eat Fall
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Today, the news is scandals; that is news, but the many children who don't have food - that's not news. This is grave. We can't rest easy while things are this way.

Children Easy Food Grave
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