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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
After Came College ICame
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I started writing when I was 9 years old. I was like this weird kid who would just stay in my room, typing little funny magazines and drawing comic strips.

Comic ComicStrips Drawing Funny
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The founder of the Mona Foundation actually knew my dad for years, and the more I learned about it, the more I realized I really found the perfect charity. It sponsors schools and educational initiatives all over the planet.

About Actually Charity Dad
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I haven't written a young-adult book in years. I'm also doing six 'Goosebumps' books a year now.

Also Book Books Doing
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A guy may wear a suit and have a high-paying job and appear very mature, but essentially, he's a 14-year-old boy.

Appear Boy Essentially Guy
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After spending 22 years in Ohio, I love everything about New York.

About After Everything ILove
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My first year of pro ball I played in the Northwest league and made the all-star team, and the next year I played I led the team in hitting and was third or fifth in the league.

All-Star Ball Fifth First
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I tell you, there are more worlds, and more doors to them, than you will think of in many years!

More world Doors Many years
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Over the years, I’ve realized that the people you surround yourself with go a long way in affecting your achievements.

Realized People Surround Affecting
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I had very good support from Democrats and Republicans all throughout my administration. I had a very high batting average. We added more jobs per year in my four years than any other president since the Second World War.

Added Administration Any Average
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I don't claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday I'm home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book, 'Through the Year with Jimmy Carter.'

About Bible Book Carter
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My paintings have gotten to be pretty popular and I've taken a little bit more interest in painting the last few years. In fact, my novel that I wrote not too long ago, 'The Hornet's Nest,' I painted the cover picture for it and I do a good bit of painting now.

Bit Cover Fact Few
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No animal on the face of the earth could conceive of taxation. You and I work roughly six months a year to pay our local, state and federal taxes. If nothing else, this should convince you that animals are smarter than people.

Animal Animals Conceive Convince
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I love comedy and I would write things to myself as an exercise in writing. I didn't do well for years, and I quit. I started to break down why I was afraid and started to look at people I admired, like Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, Freddie Prinze, George Carlin and all.

Love comedy Exercise Writing Years
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The story being told in 'Star Wars' is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again. Power corrupts, and when you're in charge, you start doing things that you think are right, but they're actually not.

Story Star wars Classic one Retold
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I have seen more demonstrations and strikes in my first two years. I don’t think it can get worse. It is said that when you kill a goat and you frighten it with a knife, it doesn’t fear the knife because it is dead already. I have a dead goat syndrome

Strikes Demonstrations Get worse Goat
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I get a lot of return business. I think it's all those years I put in traveling around the country; people saw me before and had a good time so they want to see me again.

Again Around Before Business
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Before slavery, Africa had a culture. We had medicine and our cure for malaria. Slavery brought diseases that we were not used to; slavery brought industry and people were criticizing industry way back as 2,000 years ago, that it was going to pollute the air, sea. Industry is not the way. We must deal with nature.

Before slavery Medicine Malaria
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I've led this empty life for over forty years and now I can pass that heritage on and ensure that the misery will continue for at least one more generation.

At Least One Continue Empty Ensure
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What is ironic is that Allen Ginsberg's importance was in its twilight for so many years that it took his death to bring it to the front page. He electrified an entire world!

Allen Bring Death Entire
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For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about it. I failed to understand how people could fail to be moved by art.

About Art Could Fail
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For many years, I thought a poem was a whisper overheard, not an aria heard.
Heard Many Poem Thought
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I have a high guilt quotient. A poem can go through as many as 50 or 60 drafts. It can take from a day to two years-or longer.

Day Drafts Go Guilt
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These years in silence and reflection made me stronger and reminded me that acceptance has to come from within and that this kind of truth gives me the power to conquer emotions I didn't even know existed.

Acceptance Come Conquer Emotions
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Don't waste your years focusing on others! focus on yourself.....work on yourself.....educate yourself....get creative.....have time for yourself.

Don't waste Focusing Educate yourself Work
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I keep a quotes journal - of every sentence that I've wanted to remember from my reading of the past 30 years.

Every Journal Keep Past
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Election year, thats when politicians become ACTORS, we’ll see how humble they’ll get, we’ll see how getting into POWER is all they care about, they will do anything. Come to your doorstep with oil & rice for your vote (with cameras) off course to win points.

Election Politicians Actors Power
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If you're going to immerse yourself in a project for three years, why not stake out a chunk of the world that is completely alien to you and go traveling?

Alien Chunk Go Going
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In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block.
Anything Block Felt Had
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For many years, there has been only one place where I am in touch with my emotions fearlessly, and that's the stage. Being on stage fills my soul in many ways, almost completely. It's my vice.

Almost Am Been Being
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During my sabbatical, I spent two years not listening to my songs at all.

Listening Sabbatical Songs Spent
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For many years I thought I was bisexual. And then I would ask myself, 'What is bisexual? Does that even exist?'

Ask Bisexual Does Even
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When I was 9 years old, I really wanted to be in the show business. I really wanted to be an artist. I would grab a wooden spoon and I would start singing, even if it was for my uncles and my aunts. And I would just sing any lah-lah song.

Any Artist Aunts Business
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Before I came out, I had a lot of anger. For years people would ask, 'How are you doing?' and I'd say, 'Good, fine.' It's show business, and that's what you have to show.

Anger Ask Before Business
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I created MMG years ago. My desire was to create a space where the most talented artists in the world could be nurtured and supported. With that came a commitment. I vowed to support these artists through the good and the bad.

Artists Bad Came Commitment
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Five years before 'Port of Miami,' I was to a point where I may have even felt like quitting... the style and the wordplay of my lyricism was more complex than what Miami was used to.

Before Complex Even Felt
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The earth turns, and the seasons, and for all his pride and power man cannot temper the winds or change their course. They are the unseen tides that shape our days and our years.

Seasons Pride Power man Winds
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Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.

Year's end Beginning Wisdom Experience
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Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?

Courage End Lose Moment
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I forgave the DAR many years ago. You lose a lot of time hating people

Hating Hatingpeople Lose Lot
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I was only fifteen when I finished my high-school studies, always having held first rank in my class. The fatigue of growth and study compelled me to take almost a year's rest in the country. I then returned to my father in Warsaw, hoping to teach in the free schools.

Almost Always Class Compelled
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I met Pierre Curie for the first time in the spring of the year 1894... A Polish physicist whom I knew, and who was a great admirer of Pierre Curie, one day invited us together to spend the evening with himself and his wife.

Admirer Day Evening First
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In 1903, I finished my doctor's thesis and obtained the degree. At the end of the same year, the Nobel prize was awarded jointly to Becquerel, my husband and me for the discovery of radioactivity and new radioactive elements.

Awarded Degree Discovery Doctor
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God will do it, God will do it, God will do it, said John, and did nothing. John died at 56years old, never realizing his dreams.

God Do it Died Never
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It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.

Become Changing Conservative Idea
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Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.

History Horror Last Natural
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It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous

Because Discover Famous Fifteen
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After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get a new book out of him each year.

After Author Becomes Been
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You might think that after thousands of years of coming up too soon and getting frozen, the crocus family would have had a little sense knocked into it.

After Coming Family Frozen
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I'll be sober ten years and married nine soon.

Married Nine Sober Soon
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