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The problem with most Hollywood movies is they don't give the director enough control.
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Was it Laurie Anderson who said that VR would never look real until they learned how to put some dir...
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My problem is that I do not get along with lesbians at all. They don't like me, and I don't ...
CAMILLE PAGLIA
One problem I have with drug companies is that they don't make all their data public.
IRVING KIRSCH
People ask me over and over how is it that I work with stars. How do you work with Barbra Streisand,...
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I have no problem with the people who work hard to get success. But I think people are very jealous ...
ALAIN PROST
Rick is the leader and I don't have a problem with that.
BENJAMIN ORR
When things don't work well in the bedroom, they don't work well in the living room either.
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I don't watch sitcoms. I really don't. My problem with them is they take so long to film the...
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I don't have a problem with Werner Herzog.
ABEL FERRARA
I don't have a problem with recognition... It's very, very rarely about who I am, it's a...
C. C. H. POUNDER
The problem comes when you say that danger is part of the equation. Then you don't do any more w...
DAMON HILL
The problem with compassion is that it is not photogenic.
SEBASTIAN HORSLEY
I don't do detoxes or cleanses; they don't really work for me.
TAYLOR SCHILLING
I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.
SAM SIMON
I love Hugh Laurie, but I don't want to be a guy who goes to work every day for nine months of t...
PETER CAPALDI
I don't plot the books out ahead of time, I don't plan them. I don't begin at the beginn...
DIANA GABALDON
The biggest problem with American music right now, is that kids don't listen. They come by it ho...
BRANFORD MARSALIS
Magicians are typically introverted; they don't tend to work with others, but I work with softwa...
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There are also always those burnt, hard kernels at the bottom that don't pop. You know why they ...
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This is not a skill problem, this is a will problem. Does America have the will to make education a ...
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If you have 130 people on set, all with different opinions, sometimes it's going to kick off. Th...
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The problem with comedy audiences - it's like the Coliseum - when they see someone struggling, t...
JO BRAND
Good directors don't answer questions with their work. They generate debate and create discussio...
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There really isn't a dream role, but there's a dream situation where I could work with a dir...
LOGAN LERMAN
Don't fight the problem, decide it.
GEORGE C. MARSHALL
I don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.
CHUCK CLOSE
The problem with pity parties is very few people come, and those who do don't bring presents.
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Writers don't always know what they mean - that's why they write. Their work stands in for t...
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When the vision is clear, the results will appear. Keep your mindset positive as you work your plan,...
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Most times with vanity projects, publishers don't believe in the work; they just believe in the ...
GERARD WAY
Either data supports the observations or they don't. Voting doesn't work in science.
ALAN STERN
The problem with me is that nothing embarrasses me.
DAVID HASSELHOFF
If you are trying to get people to work on a problem together, it's best if they don't know ...
DANA PERINO
If you don't exercise, you don't stay strong. I like to work with talented people.
WILLIAM HURT
Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.
FRANCES MCDORMAND
I don't have a problem with 'Idol' or 'X Factor,' I have a problem with when tho...
BILLY CORGAN
For example I don't work with William Hurt the same way that I will work with Viggo. They're...
DAVID CRONENBERG
I think you don't do work for controversy alone, and whenever you do new work which people don&#...
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I don't want to know movie directors. I don't want to be close to them. I don't want to ...
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH
I don't sleep much. I don't sleep much - I work, I work, I work.
KEVIN GATES
It doesn't hurt. Nothing hurts except the small smiles and blushes that flash across the room like t...
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He says to us: They don't really do anything. Then he adds: But of course there is not a lot for the...
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People don't live in Austin to work, they work to live there.
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I don't like rats, but there's not much else I don't like. The problem with rats is they...
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I just think they're really insecure about themselves sometimes. I know all the girls, but we al...
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I wanna work with good people. I don't want to work with screaming, yelling directors who've...
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I've always had a problem with people who couldn't tell the truth or admit a mistake and say...
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The thing with gymnastics is people don't always know the events. So they'll ask me about th...
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I don't like comedians who don't have conviction, and with stand-up, it is always best to ha...
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I don't have a problem with my image; it's other people who do.
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If you don't know someone who's had a problem with addiction, you will.
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Life is complex. You don't have any person who is nice from the beginning until the end. You don...
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I don't believe that there are no spiritual beings around us. I don't know what to call them...
MARTHA BECK
The world is crazy. You need a license to drive a car and go fishing. You don't need a license to st...
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It has always amazed me how tax cuts don't work until they take effect. Mr. Obama's experien...
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I have a problem with objectifying women, but I don't have a problem playing a guy who objectifi...
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The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at ...
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Things don't always happen the way one wishes they would.
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I know women at work who don't talk about having a baby because they don't want to upset the...
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The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't t...
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Then it was this big thing. She was like, 'I never want to see you again', and I was like, 'Fine. Ok...
M.T. ANDERSON
It hasn't been a problem with Ben, I think we worked together very well, we don't have rows.
DAVID CRYSTAL
I don't have a problem with being a woman. Women's bodies are so beautiful.
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The problem with the auto industry is layered upon the lack of consumer confidence. People are not b...
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Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that...
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I stand behind all the lyrics I've ever written; I don't have a problem with that.
IAN MACKAYE
I don't look at a problem and put variables in there that don't affect it.
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You don't work with Cloris Leachman, you experience her.
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Personally I don't think solving corruption is such a big problem.
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I always think I am one of the millions and millions of people that struggles with an addiction to f...
CARNIE WILSON
My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me.
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The problem with TV now is that there's so much competition, that you're always on the chopp...
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Movies either work or they don't work and they're either funny or they're not and we wor...
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My feeling was, you plant some seeds. If they grow, great; if they don't, you don't take it ...
HANK HANEY
There wasn't much work around at the time, I think I found a bit in Germany or something, but we...
JAMIE MUIR
I did a musical that I don't think anybody ever saw, called 'One Shining Moment,' and in...
ALAN RUCK
So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia...
BEN STEIN
Although dieting is a long standing American pastime, as a method of losing weight it stinks.
KELLY MCGONIGAL
Things they don't understand always cause a sensation among the English.
ALFRED DE MUSSET
The problem isn't that people don't understand how good things are. It's that they know,...
PAUL KRUGMAN
I don't make political work. I don't make work that criticises the state. I make as human wo...
GARY HUME
That's the problem with ADHD: I have no focus; I get bored.
HANNAH GADSBY
The problem with the gene pool is that there's no lifeguard.
DAVID GERROLD
Anti-inflammatories always seemed to work well for my joints, but the problem was you couldn't t...
CAITLYN JENNER
I don't buy trends, because the pieces don't last and I wind up never wearing them. That'...
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If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't,...
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Everybody really don't rock with each other in Philly - that's a problem. 'Cause me bein...
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Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do t...
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I don't think that my work is very moralistic - at least, I try to avoid that. I grew up with th...
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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work', because I think that just being al...
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The feedback I get is that my books are honest. I don't sugar-coat anything. Life is really hard...
LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON
I know actors come around and they always talk like that, but I don't do publicity if I don'...
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Our influences are who we are. It's rare that anything is an absolutely pure vision; even Daniel...
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When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. And whe...
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Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
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Well I was out in my four door
With the top down.
And I looked up and there they were:
M...
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They say that Heaven is like TV... a perfect little world, that doesn't really need you.
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When love is gone, there's always justice.
And when justice is gone, there's always force.
A...
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And there was a beautiful view
But nobody could see.
Cause everybody on the island
Was s...
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Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
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And Sharkey says: Deep in the heart of darkest America. Home of the brave. He says: Listen to my hea...
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You know, I can see two tiny pictures of myself And there's one in each of your eyes. And they're do...
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The fewer expectations you have, the better.
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Besides all those whaling details, Moby Dick is about someone who's looking for something so hug...
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Songs and Stories from Moby Dick,
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When you think of the Caribbean today, you think of clear blue warm water, ... Probably about 12 mil...
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My son already knows how to program my phone. I think technology is good. ... They are learning the ...
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The world is a strange and wonderful place.
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When I was a teenager, I dreamed abbout escaping. I was lucky. I succeeded.
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I see that it has huge benefits for us understanding how and why diversity changes over time and how...
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One of the things I learned from working on the Olympics was, the world does not need another big mu...
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When you meet a man who is broken, pick him up and carry him. When you meet a woman who’s broken, ...
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And there was a beautiful view,
But nobody could see.
'Cause everyone in the Island was sa...
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My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've sa...
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I have written a lot about snakes. There's something pretty primordial about it.
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Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on va...
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Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a wild joy that y...
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At the School of Visual Arts in New York, you can get your degree in Net art, which is really a fant...
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People only stutter at the beginning of the word. They're not afraid when they get to the end of...
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I'm not usually where I think I am. It's kind of spooky.
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I don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediate...
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It's easier not to say anything. Shut your trap, button your lip, can it. All that crap you hear on ...
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This is wonderful, wonderful! Be the bird. You are the bird. Sacrifice yourself to abandoned family ...
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I want to make a memorial for our turkey. Never has a bird been so tortured to provide such a lousy ...
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Why are you being so mean?"
"Friends tell friends the truth."
"yeah, but not to hurt, to h...
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When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time.
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My English teacher has no face. She has uncombed stringy hair that droops on her shoulders. The hair...
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I can't do everything for you. You must walk alone to find your soul.
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I need a new friend. I need a friend, period. Not a true friend, nothing close or share clothes or s...
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Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
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Killing people is easier than it should be.” Dad put on his beret. “Staying alive is harder.
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CONJUGATE THIS:
I cut class, you cut class, he, she, it cuts class. We cut class, they cut clas...
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It doesn't hurt. Nothing hurts except the small smiles and blushes that flash across the room like t...
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Mr. Freeman: You are getting better at this, but it's not good enough. This looks like a tree,but it...
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It is my first morning of high school. I have seven new notebooks, a skirt I hate, and a stomachache...
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Do they choose to be so dense? Were they born that way? I have no friends. I have nothing. I say not...
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I am beginning to measure myself in strength, not pounds. Sometimes in smiles.
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There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small steps upward; an easi...
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We have to acknowledge that adolescence is that time of transition where we begin to introduce to ch...
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I've written in every imaginable location; a repurposed closet, the kitchen table, the bleachers...
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It's easier to floss with barbed wire than admit you like someone in middle school.
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THE FIRST TEN LIES THEY TELL YOU IN HIGH SCHOOL

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We're good at taking care of little kids, and spend a lot of energy teaching them things like ho...
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IT happened. There is no avoiding it, no forgetting. No running away, or flying, or burying, or hidi...
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I wish America would stop judging and criticizing teens and instead, try to understand the battles t...
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I just want to sleep. A coma would be nice. Or amnesia. Anything, just to get rid of this, these tho...
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Fracture lines etch the surface of the glass box as if a body fell from the sky and landed on it. He...
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Sometimes when I find myself very irritated about a topic, I know it's my next book.
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I failed eating, failed drinking, failed not cutting myself into shreds. Failed friendship. Failed s...
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I'm learning how to taste everything.
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I won the wintergirl trip over the border into dangerland.
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You're not dead but you're not alive. You're a wintergirl.
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In one aspect, yes, I believe in ghosts, but we create them. We haunt ourselves.
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I don't just use yarn from a store. I buy old sweaters from consignment shops. The older the better,...
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I'm finally watching 'Mad Men.' As a child of the '60s, I can't believe how old ...
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Nicole can do anything that involves a ball and whistle.
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Art without emotion its like chocolate cake without sugar. It makes you gag.
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I spent the last Friday of summer vacation spreading hot, sticky tar across the roof of George Washi...
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I am so sorry. I wish you knew even one tenth of one percent of how sorry I am. ...It was my fault. ...
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Mi sgridano perché non riesco a vedere quello che vedono loro.
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I wonder how long it would take for anyone to notice if I just stopped talking.
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I have entered high school with the wrong hair, the wrong clothes, the wrong attitude. And I don't h...
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I handed my tools. The two of them reached down to help me out of the crater I'd dug. ''Isn't that a...
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Another page turns on the calendar, April now, not March.

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Write about the emotions you fear the most.
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I picked up one of the books and flipped through it. Don't get me wrong, I like reading. But some bo...
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Gym should be illegal. It's humiliating.
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If I had lady-spider legs, I would weave a sky where the stars lined up. Matresses would be tied dow...
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I have survived. I am here. Confused, screwed up, but here. So, how can I find my way? Is there a ch...
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We swore sacred oaths to be strong and to save the planet and to be friends forever.
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Cutting pain was a different flavor of hurt. It made it easier not to think about having my body and...
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He doesn't see my breasts or my waist or my hips. He only sees the nightmare.
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Why not spend that time on art: painting, sculpting, charcoal, pastel, oils? Are words or numbers mo...
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Who cares what the color means? How do you know what he meant to say? I mean, did he leave another b...
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It's Nathaniel Hawthorne Month in English. Poor Nathaniel. Does he know what they've done to him? We...
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You know how sometimes you hear a chord played on an organ and you can feel it vibrating in your bon...
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I think how veterans are treated in our country is an abomination. We don't have the draft any m...
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The only number that would ever be enough is 0. Zero pounds, zero life, size zero, double-zero, zero...
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She cannot chain my soul. Yes, she could hurt me. She'd already done so...I would bleed, or not. Sca...
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I lift my arm out of the water. It's a log. Put it back under and it blows up even bigger. People se...
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Who wants to recover? It took me years to get that tiny. I wasn't sick; I was strong.
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Do I want to die from the inside out or the outside in?
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Everyone is born a freak," notes Hayley. "Every newborn baby, wet and hungry and screaming, is a fre...
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Why? You want to know why?

Step into a tanning booth and fry yourself for two or three da...
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A scar is a sign of strength. . .the sign of a survivor.
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I have survived. I am here.
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Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance.
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Cold and silence. Nothing quieter than snow. The sky screams to deliver it, a hundred banshees flyin...
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Mr. Freeman sighs. "No imagination. What are you thirteen? Fourteen? You've already let them beat yo...
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Sometimes I think high school is one long hazy activity: if you are tough enough to survive this, th...
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I know my head isn't screwed on straight. I want to leave, transfer, warp myself to another galaxy. ...
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I have never heard a more eloquent silence.
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I am getting better at smiling when people expect it.
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You have to know what you stand for, not just what you stand against.
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I wish I had cancer. I will burn in hell for that, but it's true.
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I am the space between my thighs, daylight shining through.
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Here stands a girl clutching a knife. There is grease on the stove, blood in the air, and angry word...
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The stuffing/puking/stuffing/puking/stuffing/puking didn't make her skinny, it made her cry.
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Smoke gunpowder and go to school to jump through hoops, sit up and beg, and roll over on command. Li...
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For one moment we are not failed tests and broken condoms and cheating on essays; we are crayons and...
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I believe that you've created a metaphorical universe in which you can express your darkest fears. I...
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Be careful what you wish for. There's always a catch.
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I knew how much it hurt to be the daughter of people who can't see you, not even if you are standing...
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What do I want?
The answer to that question does not exist.
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Eating was hard. Breathing was hard. Living was hardest.
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We are crayons and lunchboxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds.
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I looked in the mirror and realized that I was already dead. I let you kill me one piece at a time, ...
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Death is funny, when you think about it. Everybody does it, but nobody knows how, exactly how.
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How could men who liked cats be bad?
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I thought of all the ancestors waiting at the water's edge for their stolen children to come home. W...
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If an entire nation could seek its freedom, why not a girl?
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My face becomes a Picasso sketch, my body slicing into pieces.
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It had been a good day, all things considered. I had managed rather well on my own. I opened Grandfa...
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(From the Q&A with the author at the end of the book.)
Have any readers ever asked question...
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Pie makes everybody happy.
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The best time to talk to ghosts is just before the sun comes up.
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The feedback I get is that my books are honest. I don't sugar-coat anything. Life is really hard...
LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON
Yes it is, because you can only be brave if you're scared.
LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON
The trick to surviving an interrogation is patience. Don’t offer up anything. Don’t explain. Ans...
LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON
Can't escape pain, kiddo. Battle through it and you get stronger.
LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON
The world is crazy. You need a license to drive a car and go fishing. You don't need a license to st...
LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON
I just want to sleep. The whole point of not talking about it, of silencing the memory, is to make i...
LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON
Blessed are those to whom Easter is not a hunt...but a find; not a greeting...but a proclamation; no...
ANDERSON
It doesn't rain at all in California. Once a month, a man drives through spraying Evian.
HUGH LAURIE
That last winter was a tragic story and I got no personal honour out of it but I was a witness to it...
LAURIE LEE
Introverts are more effective leaders of proactive employees. When you have a creative, energetic wo...
LAURIE HELGOE
If you ask an introvert a question, wait until she thinks about it. Introverts think before speaking...
LAURIE HELGOE
There's a lot to love about America - freedom, the melting pot of diversity, individualism - all...
LAURIE HELGOE
When an introvert is quiet, don't assume he is depressed, snobbish or socially deficient.
LAURIE HELGOE
As a real person, he wouldn't last a minute, would he? But drama is about imperfection. And we&#...
HUGH LAURIE
I've been lucky enough to travel widely. When you're based in Europe, it's very easy to ...
LAURIE GRAHAM
I have but one rule at my table. You may leave your cabbage, but you'll sit still and behave unt...
LAURIE GRAHAM
It's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to make a blues ...
HUGH LAURIE
Friendship is not possible between two women, one of whom is very well dressed.
LAURIE COLWIN
Barely halfway back, exhaustion sets in. What if I don’t make it? An edge of panic gets intercepte...
LAURIE NADEL
It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that act...
HUGH LAURIE
To me, he's a hero, ... He's not polite. He's not someone you want to take home to meet your mother,...
HUGH LAURIE
I grew up with an impatience with the anti-scientific. So I'm a bit miffed with our current love...
HUGH LAURIE
I feel when acting, I am sometimes overly self-conscious; I think, 'Going, no, don't, put yo...
HUGH LAURIE
I think there's a collective consciousness around the world that there are things beyond our con...
LAURIE HOLDEN
I wouldn't be able to act like Al Pacino or play the piano like Dr. John, But I could probably a...
HUGH LAURIE
I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too o...
HUGH LAURIE
If you really believe in what you're doing, work hard, take nothing personally and if something ...
LAURIE NOTARO
The table is a meeting place, a gathering ground, the source of sustenance and nourishment, festivit...
LAURIE COLWIN
The financing of all TV shows is dictated by finding an audience between 18 and 49. I have now passe...
HUGH LAURIE
I really, really, really want to do a silly romantic comedy where I can just have a crush on the guy...
LAURIE HOLDEN
I run six-to-eight miles a day, plus weights and aerobics in the lunch hour. I also lie a lot, which...
HUGH LAURIE
The strange thing - and this is one of the advantages of being incredibly shallow and superficial - ...
HUGH LAURIE
The thing about homebodies is that they can usually be found at home. I usually am, and I like to fe...
LAURIE COLWIN
I myself am not particularly interested in restaurant cooking. I don't really want to learn how ...
LAURIE COLWIN
I am not a fancy cook or an ambitious cook. I am a plain old cook.
LAURIE COLWIN
As everyone knows, there is only one way to fry chicken correctly. Unfortunately, most people think ...
LAURIE COLWIN
The best way to feel at ease in the kitchen is to learn at someone's knee.
LAURIE COLWIN
My idea of a good time abroad is to visit someone's house and hang out, poking into their cupboa...
LAURIE COLWIN
Cooking is like anything else: some people have an inborn talent for it. Some become expert by pract...
LAURIE COLWIN
It is my opinion that Norman Rockwell and his ilk have done more to make already anxious people feel...
LAURIE COLWIN
When it comes to cakes and puddings, savouries, bread and tea cakes, the English cannot be surpassed...
LAURIE COLWIN
I love to eat out, but even more, I love to eat in.
LAURIE COLWIN
Unlike some people who love to go out, I love to stay home.
LAURIE COLWIN
Somehow or other, I always end up in a kitchen feeding a crowd.
LAURIE COLWIN
Not everyone can write a book or paint a picture or write a symphony, but almost anyone can fall in ...
LAURIE COLWIN
It is not just the Great Works of mankind that make a culture. It is the daily things, like what peo...
LAURIE COLWIN
There is nothing like roast chicken. It is helpful and agreeable, the perfect dish no matter what th...
LAURIE COLWIN