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  • David Gemmell I don't know yet whether I fully believe in fate, but certain things do happen in a man's life that he cannot explain.
    Legend (2011)
    David Gemmell
    British author of heroic fantasy (1948 - 2006)
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  • Arthur Golden I don't like things held up before me that I cannot have.
    Arthur Golden
    American writer (1956 - )
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  • Tupac Shakur I don't see myself being special; I just see myself having more responsibilities than the next man. People look to me to do things for them, to have answers.
    Tupac Shakur
    American rapper and actor (1971 - 1996)
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  • Carlos Fuentes I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.
    Carlos Fuentes
    Mexican novelist and essayist (1928 - 2012)
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  • Ann Beattie I don't write about things that I have the answers to or things that are very close to home. It just wouldn't be any adventure. It wouldn't have any vitality.
    Ann Beattie
    American novelist (1947 - )
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  • Bhagat Singh I emphasize that I am full of ambition and hope and of full charm of life. But I can renounce all at the time of need, and that is the real sacrifice. These things can never be hinderance in the way of man, provided he be a man. You will have the practical proof in the near future.
    Selected writings of Shaheed Bhagat Singh
    Bhagat Singh
    Indian socialist revolutionary (1907 - 1931)
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  • Abraham Lincoln I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Jean Kerr I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
    Jean Kerr
    American writer, playwright (1922 - 2003)
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  • Bernie Parent I feel bad about the whole thing but all good things must come to an end sometime. I've got many pleasant memories, especially those two Stanley Cups.
    Quoted in Kevin Shea, One on One with Bernie Parent, Legends of Hockey.net
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  • Taylor Swift I feel like in my music I can be a rebel. I can say things I wouldn't say in real life.
    Taylor Swift
    American singer-songwriter (1989 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin I feel we need to remind the world about the Apollo missions and that we can still do impossible things.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • A. E. van Vogt I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's block, the feeling of not being able to do these things.
    A. E. van Vogt
    Canadian-born science fiction author (1912 - 2000)
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  • Benazir Bhutto I find that whenever I am in power, or my father was in power, somehow good things happen. The economy picks up, we have good rains, water comes, people have crops. I think the reason this happens is that we want to give love and we receive love.
    As quoted in I never asked for power in The Guardian (15 August 2002)
    Benazir Bhutto
    Pakistani politician (1953 - 2007)
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  • Toni Morrison I get angry about things, then go on and work.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Hanif Kureishi I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say them, and better out than in.
    Hanif Kureishi
    British playwright, filmmaker and novelist (1954 - )
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  • Emma Albani I had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before leaving America I had had a very little chance of seeing any.
    Emma Albani
    Canadian opera soprano (1847 - 1930)
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  • Burt Shavitz I had no desire to be an upward-mobile-rising yuppie with a trophy wife, a trophy house, a trophy car. I wasn't looking for any of those things. I already had what I wanted.
    Burt Shavitz
    American beekeeper and businessman (1935 - 2015)
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  • Assata Shakur I had to adjust to living in a Third World country, which means that things people in the U.S. take for granted-like hot running water whenever you turn on the tap-are not always available.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Philip Roth I have a slogan I use when I get anxious writing, which happens quite a bit: ‘the ordeal is part of the commitment.’ It’s one of my mantras. It makes a lot of things doable.
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Billy Joel I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.
    Billy Joel
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1949 - )
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