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When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.

Action Gather Grows Information
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We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.

Change Experience Human Maps
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When you have nothing to hide, then you'll have nothing to fear.
Hide Fear Nothing
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The fidelity question is difficult for me. Society has made us believe we're supposed to be monogamous when we're not killer whales, or whatever the monogamous species is.

Believe Difficult Fidelity Killer
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God and death kind of resemble each other, because the only time a lot of people will try and talk to God is when someone's died.

Because Death Died Each
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Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Begins Growth Liberty Plant
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When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.

Aside Assumed Citizen Lay
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.

Confidence Confident Even Key
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In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.

Attack Battle Beaten Both
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Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was accomplished.

Accomplished Always Anything Anywhere
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There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.

Could Drawing Found In My Opinion
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When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.
Believe Believing Everything God
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There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation.

About Among Anticipation Bullets
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When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.

About Ask Doubt Guide
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Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

Faith First Staircase Step
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I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

Character Color Content Day
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There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life's July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

Being Chill Time Glittering
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A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

Dies Justice Man Refuses
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Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

Vanity Conscience Cowardice Expediency
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When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment.

Academic Being Certain Colleagues
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It is clear that when you write a story that takes place in the past, you try to show what really happened in those times. But you are always moved by the suspicion that you are also showing something about our contemporary world.

About Also Always Clear
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When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.

Defend Intervene Liberty Press
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When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you're waiting for the elevator - instead of indulging in thinking, these are all opportunities for being there as a still, alert presence.

Alert Being Coffee Cup
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When one starts writing a book, especially a novel, even the humblest person in the world hopes to become Homer.

Become Book Even Homer
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People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.
Always Company Doing Enjoy
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Even, today, when people tell me I'm beautiful, I do not believe a word of it.

Beautiful Believe Even Me
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When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really. But it's more my religion than any other because I was brought up with it in an intellectual and spiritual environment. I don't practice or preach it, however.

Answer Any Asked Because
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There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything.

Children Everything Family Flows
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I'm an actress and mom, and I probably don't have enough of an active spiritual life. And I don't know why people run around calling themselves by the names of religions when they don't actually practise them.

Active Actress Actually Around
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Motherhood definitely took the focus off of my work. And I didn't mind. I had a few panics when I thought that if I wanted to work I couldn't get a job anymore and then I would get one once in a while and it would make me feel better.

Anymore Better Definitely Feel
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This is a mean world, and everyone likes to jump in and kick people when they're down.
Down Everyone Jump Kick
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When you're at world championship level, you're fighting other guys who are at a world championship level.

Championship Fighting Guys Level
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Things change when you're fighting the best guys in the world.

Best Change Fighting Guys
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It's kind of a weird thing when you've been at the top of a division you've been in your entire career to kind of take a backseat because of friendship.

Because Been Career Division
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For me, Sakuraba was my favorite fighter when I first got into the sport.

Favorite Fighter First Got
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When I was 23 years old, I had just finished my wrestling career. I was top 12 in the nation in the NCAA. And I was top 12 in the state in California.

California Career Finished Had
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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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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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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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The Lion King always makes me cry, especially when Simba's father gets trampled.

Always Cry Father Gets
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You have to be able to love yourself because that's when things fall into place.
Able Because Fall Love
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When you're putting good stuff into your body, you feel so much better.

Better Body Feel Good
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When I was younger, I used to be super, super shy. I still find myself being scared of things.

Being Being Scared Find Myself
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When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

Go Need Out Paint
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When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside your body, look around at the sky, the trees. The mind might tell you, 'I don't have time.' But that's the mind talking to you. Even the busiest person has time for 30 seconds of space.

Around Body Breathe Car
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When you take your attention into the present moment, a certain alertness arises. You become more conscious of what's around you, but also, strangely, a sense of presence that is both within and without.

Arises Around Attention Become
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That is the real spiritual awakening, when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who you thought you were. So, the person is still there, but one could almost say that something more powerful shines through the person.

Awakening Deeper Emerges Person
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Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving

Love Religion Business Family
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'Beasts of No Nation' began when I read an article about child soldiers in Sierra Leone during my final year of high school.

About Article Beasts Began
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There are skills you pick up on in a clinical environment in terms of how to ask questions, what to look for, how to listen that serve one well when trying to write.

Ask Clinical Environment How
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