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I wanted to tell the story of Luong Ung, who's a dear friend of mine. ANGELINA JOLIE I'm not a natural. I had to teach myself - or be taught - everything I do. I just spent hours an...
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If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before [it hated] you. THE BIBLE
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I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it's just depressing to me. The poor littl... DOLLY PARTON
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Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I can't impress people with the pedigree of obscure French filmmakers that got me into film. It ... DOUG LIMAN As a lifetime people pleaser, I remember trying to mold myself into the person I thought other peopl...
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When I was seven, these kids in the alley behind our house in Omaha called me Freckleface Strawberry... JULIANNE MOORE Me being me, I just wanted to play again.
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I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that's ever happened to me... ELLEN DEGENERES
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Ada Taylor knelt beside me on the floor as I cried for the first time over the thought that my favor... JOHN COREY WHALEY
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When I was a kid - 10, 11, 12, 13 - the thing I wanted most in the world was a best friend. I wanted... FIONA APPLE She instantly created within me a passion for music, and has taught me so much more than I ever thou...
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I don't think I knew that you could be a novelist. I think a lot of my students are in the same ... RACHEL CUSK I'm still insecure, but when I first started acting, I was really insecure. I glared at a lot of...
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Watching her talk to someone else made me crazy. I was jealous. Ridiculous. I wanted her to know me;... TAHEREH MAFI
A little girl came up to me the other day and said, 'Do you live here?' ... I have a great staff tha... DAVID GILMOUR
Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qu... BERNARD BERENSON I heard some people waited four hours.
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I never really hated one true godBut the god of all the people I hated
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