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I was Cheryl Anway- that has to count for something.
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Your body isn't just a body. It's an ecosystem.
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With 'Worst. Person. Ever.' I knew where it started and where it had to end, but I threw Raymond as many curveballs as I could along the way. He's like the coyote in the 'Road Runner' cartoons.
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I miss the silliness of the Nineties. What would society be like if 9/11 never happened? If that silliness was extended forever?
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Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want.
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My life is neither a disaster nor supernatural, yet it is an unlikely event.
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I'm a visual thinker. Research tells us that only 20 per cent of people think visually. So what about the other 80 per cent? Don't they think in pictures? I mean if you imagine washing and preparing potatoes you visualise the process, right?
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TV didn't kill radio, it just added something new to the mix.
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The hardest things in the world are being unique and having your life be a story. In the old days, it was much easier, but our modern fame-driven culture, with its real-time 24-7 marinade of electronic information, demands a lot from modern citizens, and poses great obstacles to narrative.
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Royalty is either going to do very well with cloning, or it's going to disappear completely.
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There are three things we cry about in life, things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent.
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Good-looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters.
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Bleeding Ponytail: An elderly sold out baby boomer who pines for hippie or pre-sellout days.
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I tend to look for pathologies everywhere.
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I've always thought that you live in the present, you live in a specific present. You are writing, present tense, so write in the present as it is.
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I had a lot of really terrible advice early in my writing career, and I cheesed off people without even knowing it, all the while thinking I was implementing good advice. Well, what can you do about it? Next.
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There's nothing cure or funny or lovable about being cheap. It's a total turn-off.
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Our curse as humans is that we are trapped in time; our curse is that we are forced to interpret life as a series of events - a story - and when we can’t figure out what our particular story is, we feel lost somehow.
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Workshops and seminars are basically financial speed dating for clueless people.
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I'm a pretty good drawer. I have trouble painting because you literally have to wait for the paint to dry. I'm disciplined, but I'm not patient.
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For many people, myself included, the end of the world is happening all the time! It is a form of criticality that paradoxically gives us hope for change and improvement.
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I'm suspicious of places that look decorated. I can understand why people do it, but you see too many cushions or a piece of fabric hanging and it's, like, 'Ugh!' A good house with good art will always work, no matter what.
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Sometimes I wonder if the world is too interesting and too boring at the same time.
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The way we experience history and time in all its forms shifted quite massively between 1989 and 2001 - to the point where contrivances like decades are now kind of silly.
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