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		As an actor, especially one who's worked in casting, you read so many scripts, and some of them are terrible. They're terrible and they're getting made, and some of them are good but the female role is just painful or underwritten. So after years of that, I had this idea kicking around in my head for two years, and I thought, I'm just going to start writing.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Erin Maya Darke 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		I believe in something that maybe can be defined as the God in one's heart, in the heart of every human being, but not in a God who sits on high looking down on us and taking care of us and whom we bother with things trivial and weighty so that he will be good to us and arrange things for us here. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		Compromise has a negative connotation. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		I think we are all slightly down in the dumps after another loss. We may be in the wrong sign... Venus may be in the wrong juxtaposition with somewhere else. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ted Dexter 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Growing up, I wasn't the most vocal kid in the world. I feel like I learned through observation, and usually, when you're watching things, you're not speaking. That sort of metastasized in a way that I began to participate less and less in the world. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		The idea of me writing something that I'd get to be in as well was not what I saw coming. I do think that life works that way. When you kind of let go of something and accept that it hasn't worked, it takes all the pressure off, and then you end up getting it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Erin Foster 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Coaching in the NBA is not easy. It's like a nervous breakdown with a paycheck. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		Pairs skating and singles are two different things. Although some skaters have achieved this successfully, it is a very difficult transition. You're looking at double work. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Oksana Baiul 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Fannie Flagg 
			 
		 
	
	
	 
	
	
	
	
		As an actor, especially one who's worked in casting, you read so many scripts, and some of them are terrible. They're terrible and they're getting made, and some of them are good but the female role is just painful or underwritten. So after years of that, I had this idea kicking around in my head for two years, and I thought, I'm just going to start writing. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Erin Maya Darke