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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Arthur Godfrey I liked the way they treated the first, second, and third place finishers equally. It was an amazing year. I only entered two song contests this year; I won one and placed second in the other. And I entered each of them a day or two before the deadline.
    Arthur Godfrey
    American radio and television (1903 - 1983)
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  • Anita Diamant I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took it over already had a full plate. It was never advertised. We didn't get reviewed in any major outlets.
    Anita Diamant
    American author (1951 - )
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  • Lorrie Moore I love plays. Even bad ones. I like the fact that actual live, breathing people are standing before you in tense situations that you are not personally responsible for.
    Lorrie Moore
    American writer (1957 - )
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales I love to hold people's hands when I visit hospitals, even though they are shocked because they haven't experienced anything like it before, but to me it is a normal thing to do.
    Diana Spencer Princess of Wales
    British princess
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  • Sydney Smith I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Philip Roth I often have to write a hundred pages or more before there's a paragraph that's alive.
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Busy Philipps I only became a celebrity because I had a kid. Before I was pregnant nobody cared. I joke to my agent that having a baby made my career.
    Busy Philipps
    American actress and writer (1979 - )
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  • Lord Nelson I owe all my success in life to having been always a quarter of an hour before my time.
    Lord Nelson
     
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  • Bruce Springsteen I played in front of every conceivable audience you could face: an all-black audience, all-white, firemen's fairs, policemen's balls, in front of supermarkets, bar mitzvahs, weddings, drive-in theaters. I'd seen it all before I ever walked into a recording studio.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Anne Ford I put up a huge wall of denial. It was years before I was able to break through it... accepting that your child has a disability, especially one like LD that cannot be seen or easily diagnosed, is one of the hardest things to come to terms with.
    Anne Ford
    English musician and singer (1737 - 1824)
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  • Anne Rice I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book.
    Anne Rice
    American author of gothic fiction (1941 - 2021)
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people’s hands, people used to be shocked because they’d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.
    Diana Spencer Princess of Wales
    British princess
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  • Muhammad Ali I run on the road, long before I dance under the lights.
    Muhammad Ali
    American Boxer (1942 - 2016)
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  • Sir Isaac Newton I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
    Sir Isaac Newton
    British scientist, mathematician (1643 - 1727)
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  • Junot Diaz I seem to have to make my characters family before I can access their hearts in any way that matters.
    Junot Diaz
    Dominican-American writer (1968 - )
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  • Adela Florence Nicolson I shall go the way of the open sea, to the lands I knew before you came, and the cool ocean breezes shall blow from me the memory of your name.
    Adela Florence Nicolson
    English poet
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  • Anna Akhmatova I should be proud to have my memory graced, but only if the monument be placed... here, where I endured three hundred hours in line before the implacable iron bars.
    Anna Akhmatova
    Russian poet (1889 - 1966)
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  • Bruno Tonioli I started dancing before I could talk. Other babies learn to stand and then walk - I just danced.
    Bruno Tonioli
    Italian choreographer and dancer (1955 - )
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  • Assata Shakur I think that one of the problems that exists in the United States and in many places in the world is that people don't believe that they can make a difference. So a lot of times we're defeated before we even start. We've become consumers of a world vision, of Kentucky Fried Chicken, of McDonalds.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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