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		At one level you're condemned to the voice you have. But within those confines, you have a certain amount of freedom to range among your possible voices.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				David Guterson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		I feel like I just have such the blood and bones of a New Yorker that I can almost imagine better, like, giving up the fight and not being able to afford the city and going out West, keeping a small place here, and then when I'm like 80, coming back here, living on the park and going to the theater. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Natasha Lyonne 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Rachel Corrie 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Writers are always critical of themselves and I'm no exception. I always feel that maybe I could have done better. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Iris Johansen 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When you have that long, flowing hair, you feel different - when you cut it, the framing of your face changes immediately. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Natalie Dormer 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Hans Urs von Balthasar 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Samuel Johnson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		If we can find the will I strongly believe we can still make Britain’s approach to talent a bit more X-factor (without Simon Cowell) and a bit less Downton Abbey. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jo Cox 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I'm continuously playing this game of what's real and what's not real, and having to balance and judge and realize that there are things that carry real weight in the world and actually have power in them. And there are things that are just pointless, and you don't have to pay attention to those things. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Amandla Stenberg 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		His business is here, it is here that he is despised and vilified, it is here that he must carry out his undertaking. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jean-Paul Sartre 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		That men should pray and fight for their own freedom, and yet keep others in slavery, is certainly acting a very inconsistent, as well as unjust and, perhaps, impious part, but the history of mankind is filled with instances of human improprieties. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				John Jay 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Not chaos-like together crush'd and bruis'd, But as the world, harmoniously confus'd, Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Alexander Pope 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		At one level you're condemned to the voice you have. But within those confines, you have a certain amount of freedom to range among your possible voices. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				David Guterson