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		I've always loved both writing and songwriting. The journey is fascinating to me.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Manika
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		It's always, 'Are you the runner girl?' I say, 'My name is Sally actually.' I used to always get that at school as well, 'Are you the runner girl?' I'm not even the runner girl, I'm a hurdler.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Sally Pearson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		While conducting a conventional war in Iraq and Syria, ISIS has staged terrorist attacks on a global scale against the people from the countries who are fighting ISIS.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jack Keane
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I carry around, like, a little journal with me and just write all the time. Not necessarily, like, actually sitting down and writing lyrics - just freeform writing, whatever's going on in my mind. I write a lot on airplanes, actually, because it's completely isolating.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Mandy Moore
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				S. Jay Olshansky
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When we think back at our youth, we always remember the feeling of freedom... that you actually believe in the world. Even if it goes well for you in life, you can never attain that freedom in your imagination of what you think life could be. We are tainted.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Daniel Espinosa
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				N. T. Wright
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I've always looked the same, and every 10 years, I'm a little bit in fashion.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Gaby Hoffmann
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The great thing about journalism is that there is so much exposure to all kinds of people who can turn up later as characters, whether you intend it or not.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Tananarive Due
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Karin Slaughter
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The building is a domed structure made of white marble inlaid with colourful gemstones in the shapes of flowers. Passage from the Quran are inlaid in black marble.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Why am I political? Because society's consistent and constant disregard and lack of respect for minorities, even the title minority, is too much to bear silently. Their insistence at our invisibility, whether subtle as noninclusion, or as loud and violent as hate crimes, is contagious, and can make me hide from myself.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Margaret Cho
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		One of the most gracious dispensations of God concerning His saints is their lovely unawareness of sanctity. The nearer they move to Him, the more conscious are they of sin. If it were impossible at times not to note their own growth in grace, it were impossible also to forget that it was all by His power. If they could be persuaded to admit their progress and talk of it at all, the language of their heart would be this: 'If God could do this in me, He could do it in anyone
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Bill Vaughan
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		'Glee' is one of the very few mainstream outlets that is giving a voice to communities of people that don't necessarily have a loud voice, specifically the gay community. It gives a really positive and forward statement.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jack Antonoff
			
			
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		The Peace Corps would give thousands of young Americans a chance to see at first hand the conditions in remote areas of the world.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Sargent Shriver
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		It is simply in the nature of Armenian to study, to learn, to question, to speculate, to discover, to invent, to revise, to restore, to preserve, to make, and to give.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				William Saroyan
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When I live, I'll give it all I've got.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Sufjan Stevens