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  • Adrienne Rich When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.
    Adrienne Rich
    American Poet (1929 - 2012)
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  • Boy George When Culture Club broke up, I hadn't been going out a lot because we'd been working all the time, so I suddenly had this period of leisure. And it was just around the time that the whole acid house thing kicked off in London.
    Boy George
    English singer, songwriter, DJ, fashion designer and actor (1961 - )
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  • Bill Griffith When drugs came around I sampled them just like anybody else but I never became dependent creatively on drugs; like various cartoonists in the underground never did anything if they weren't stoned, That was the prerequisite for sitting down and drawing.
    Bill Griffith
    American cartoonist (1944 - )
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  • Dr. Jess Lair When I do something in my family because I really enjoy it, then my duty has become my pleasure. And it is a pleasure for all the people around me.
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  • Agnes Macphail When I first came to the House of Commons and walked out into the lobby, men sprang to their feet. I asked them to sit down since I'd come to walk around. I didn't want them doing me favours.
    Agnes Macphail
    Canadian politician (1890 - 1954)
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  • Camille Guaty When I first moved to Los Angeles, I had a really bad run. I would sleep in my car during the day outside the Disney building in Burbank, and that's where I got my first job, which is really weird. I liked to stay around the studios and kind of get the good vibes going.
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  • Ben Nicholson When I left school I went on trip around the world - I only got as far as Australia, but like a bloody fool I cut it short because of a girl. It's probably one of my big regrets in life.
    Ben Nicholson
    English painter (1894 - 1982)
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  • Josh Billings When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Mark Twain When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But, when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Ben Falcone When I was a kid, we sat around the house. If I got bored, I'd have to figure out something to do.
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  • Mark Twain When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that day I made nothing new.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bruce Robinson When I was writing 'Withnail,' I was so busted flat that I had one lightbulb that I would carry around the house with me. I mean, really. No furniture, no money, and I was hoping to be an actor, but I could never get a job.
    Bruce Robinson
    English actor, director and novelist (1946 - )
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  • Bruce Eric Kaplan When I'm on the set, I'll come up with ideas if I'm sort of just between responsibilities, because there's a lot of sitting around on set. Invariably, though, the stuff I come up with on the set tends to be bad.
    Bruce Eric Kaplan
    American cartoonist
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  • Beau Mirchoff When people are nervous, some people move around. Some people scratch their leg.
    Beau Mirchoff
    Canadian-American actor (1989 - )
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  • Carla Hall When people around me are getting rattled, I may just close my eyes and do a breathing exercise.
    Carla Hall
    American chef and television personality (1964 - )
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  • Brad Feld When the entrepreneur is obsessed with the product and the company has organized all of its activities around that, it's very powerful.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Louise Erdrich When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.
    Louise Erdrich
    American author (1954 - )
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  • Jack Kornfield When we come into the present, we begin to feel the life around us again, but we also encounter whatever we have been avoiding. We must have the courage to face whatever is present - our pain, our desires, our grief, our loss, our secret hopes our love - everything that moves us most deeply.
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  • Aaron Spelling When we did Dynasty, it was the clothes. I think the clothes affected every woman around the world. I got so many letters, I think we made the designer a millionaire!
    Aaron Spelling
    American film and television (1923 - 2006)
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