Rumi Quotes
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I definitely look up to Veronica Roth, Suzanne Collins, and J.K. Rowling.
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Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.
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Of course I wanted an agent from the time I was like 5, but my mother was like, 'No, you're going to be normal, you're going to go to school, you're going to get good grades, you're going to play soccer, and if you do well, if you keep your grades up, you can do one community-theater show a year.'
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You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
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I read all the time that people think I'm arrogant. They say I am cocky, a bad character. I had that from a young age. But when they meet me, they say, 'That image doesn't fit you.'
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Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to whites.
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Dinosaurs replace their teeth throughout their life. And T. rex replaced all of their teeth every year.
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It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.
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If you have life's experiences with you, nothing can stop you from being a competent actor.
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The butt is not a magical place that only gay people can visit, like a leather bar or the Liberace Museum.
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As the era of the sword was ending, that of firearms began, in time to allow no lapse in man’s belligerent capacity.
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The young tree of resistance in Palestine is blooming and blooms of faith and desire for freedom are flowering.
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The secret is that only that which can destroy itself is truly alive.
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To destroy an offender cannot benefit society so much as to redeem him.
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It was here at the age of seventeen that I suspended my religious inquiries.
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'…as the cinema shows us, they are much more accessible and, for that matter, much more wanton than our own women'
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One should never be so formal that one loses life, but one should never be so informal that one becomes without form of any kind.
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Fantasy sports went a long way toward developing the sabermetrics formulas used not only by oddsmakers but general managers in hiring players. So the amateur fantasists ended up creating some of the algorithms that Oakland GM Billy Bean's statisticians used to win games with less salary money available for star players.
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As for anticipation, you never know what to expect of a book. They're like kids: you bring them into the world, fret about them, and then at some point there's no other option but to turn them lose and see how they do.
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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I babysat kids in a ShopRite, which is a grocery store. They had a babysitting center so that parents could bring their children while they shopped. It was awful. I also was not very good at keeping the kids calm.
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Always begin anew with the day, just as nature does. It is one of the sensible things that nature does.
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Whoever's calm and sensible is insane!
