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I love playing with language and the rhythm of language - for some reason, this seems so much easier for me to do when I get to make things up than when writing nonfiction.

Easier Get I Love Language
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I love finding things that scare me and doing them. That's how you grow.

Doing Finding Grow How
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I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.

Family Go I Think Least
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When it comes to inmates, we have boiled them down to just the few things we know about them - their crime, their current life situation, their identification number. But the reality is they were something before they were their crime.

About Before Crime Current
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I love ensemble work. I love making pieces and building things together.

Building Ensemble I Love Love
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Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Former Human Infinite Stupidity
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I love being a wife and homemaker - because it's my choice. My husband doesn't expect me to do it. I don't mind doing things for him because he does so much for me; we both feel that way so there is no power struggle.

Because Being Both Choice
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Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

Listen Matter Second Best
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I think it's important that kids have responsibilities and understand the value of things, but I think it's great I get to travel the world with my daughter.

Daughter Get Great I Think
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Getting things done in this country, if you want to build something, if you want to start a company, it's getting to be virtually impossible with all of the bureaucracy and all of the approvals.

Build Bureaucracy Company Country
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The debt limits have to come down. The whole world of debt has to be changed as far as this country is concerned. We have to create jobs and we have to create them rapidly because if we don't things are just going to head in a direction that's going to be almost impossible to recover from.

Almost Because Changed Come
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I'm still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed hours to me.

Always Blessed Feel Hours
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If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut.

Above Around Aware Lot
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And as a writer, one of the things that I've always been interested in doing is actually invading your comfort space. Because that's what we're supposed to do. Get under your skin, and make you react.

Actually Always Because Been
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Imagine your family finally making it from nothing to something, and finally getting things going, and finally buying a beautiful house and taking care of your children - and the next day, it's completely all gone. Zero. Boom. Flat broke. So that's when I had to man up.

Beautiful Boom Broke Buying
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You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can't put a dollar sign on.

Dollar Kindness Love Rich
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If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.

Bad Country Like Momma
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I have sister issues and parent issues and all sorts of things.

Have I Sisters Issues
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I am pretty honest about a lot of things that young girls question, like their body image.

Pretty Honest About Lot
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I know who I am, I know what I can and can't do. I know what I will and won't do. I know what I'm capable of and I don't agree to do things that I don't think I can pull off.

Agree Capable Know Off
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I write for myself things that I've gone through.

Gone Myself Things Through
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It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees.

Citizens Difference Little Make
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When you're happy at home, you can make a lot of things happen.
Happen Happy Home Lot
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I think some things that are better for me are not good for other people, innit. They need to run theirself. Everybody should run theirself.

Better Everybody Good I Think
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There are different things to wear in different places, and if you want to fit in and show respect, you can dress to do that, or you can dress to show that you are foreign and not from there. That can work, too.

Different Different Places Different Things Dress
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I know that I'm in grime, but I had to separate myself and do things myself.

Had Know Myself Separate
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One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.

About Becomes Events Extraordinary
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I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood.

Catholic Childhood Last Sense
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Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.

Cunning Exile Ideas Keep
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The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.

About Beautiful Beautiful Things Heard
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I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.

Say Things Serious Them
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Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

Carrying Discipline Effective First
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We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

Accomplish Carefully Certain Certain Things
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The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.

About Around Deciding Important
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.

Interested Mix Other Stay
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I've always had an aptitude for wrestling. I can't explain it - it's like a gift. To this day, I don't always know how or why I do certain things.

Always Aptitude Certain Certain Things
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Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is... we cannot expect things to be much better in this world... We cannot have peace among men whose hearts delight in killing any living creature. By every act that glorifies or even tolerates such moronic delight in killing we set back the progress of humanity.

Courage Cruelty Expectations Humanity
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Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is -- whether its victim is human or animal -- we cannot expect things to be much better in this world. We cannot have peace among men whose hearts delight in killing any living creature. By every act that glorifies or even tolerates such moronic delight in killing, we set back the progress of humanity.

Cruelty Humanity Nature Peace
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To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feel the breath of a mist moving over a great salt marsh, to watch the flight of shore birds that have swept up and down the surf lines of the continents for untold thousands of years, to see the running of the old eels and the young shad to the sea, is to have knowledge of things that are as nearly eternal as any earthly life can be.

Edge Earthly Knowledge Nature
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Because I'm small, I've been called things from 'Happy Feet' to 'Little Face.'

Because Small Been Called
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The two things in the world we all share in this world are laughter and pain. We've all got problems. The levels of those problems vary, but we've all got problems. When you can take things that are painful and make them funny, that's a gift - to you and your audience.

Two Things World Share
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You've gotta understand that with branding and the way things are promoted, in our day and age, your older movie stars are not reachable or accessible because they're not a part of the whole social media world.

Gotta Understand Branding Way
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I don't write material. Funny things happen to me in the course of a day, and I just make notes.

Write Course Material Funny
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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
Defeated Greater Life Purpose
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There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.

About Course Grown Know
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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.

Been Full Never New
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The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler.

Becoming Everything Main More
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I can do the little things, play defense, dive on the floor to get loose balls, things like that.

Balls Defense Dive Floor
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If we drive down the cost of transportation in space, we can do great things.

Cost Down Drive Great
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Although I have guitars all around, and I pick them up occasionally and write a tune and make a record, I don't really see myself as a musician. It may seem a funny thing to say. It's just like, I write lyrics, and I make up songs, but I'm not a great lyricist or songwriter or producer. It's when you put all these things together - that makes me.

All-Around Although Around Funny
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