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		A lot of writers do think of their characters as living beings. I know that's the way people think. That's why I try to make them real in a certain way, because otherwise people won't read them. It's fine if some readers think of them as real. It's just not the way that I think of them.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Dennis Cooper 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		In social policy, when we provide a safety net, it should be designed to help people take more entrepreneurial risks, not to turn them into dependents. This doesn't mean that we should be callous to the underprivileged. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Nassim Nicholas Taleb 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I've had self-esteem issues for a really, really long time. Plenty of people think I'm ugly, and plenty of people don't. But there's a moment when I'm modeling where I forget about my self-esteem issues and focus on what the photographer's telling me - and I feel pretty. And in that sense, it's selfish. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		If someone is alone reading my poems, I hope it would be like reading someone's notebook. A record. Of a place, beauty, difficulty. A familiar daily struggle. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Fanny Howe 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Walter Salles 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		You can do anything as long as you have the passion, the drive, the focus, and the support. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Sabrina Bryan 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment? 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Famke Janssen 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
		
	
	
	
	
		I was forgetting how it really was, I was remembering it through common, ordinary eyes, I was remembering it as the boy I was before, but now I remember that it wasn't me being weak or me being naked, or anything else that I should be ashamed of. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Orson Scott Card 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When I see kids who naturally get A's and who naturally score high on tests and the teachers naturally like them because they require the least amount of management - when they come out into the real world, I find they're very poor at getting through obstacles. And life is about solving obstacles. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jimmy John Liautaud 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Union leaders argue that pension shortfalls account for a proportionally tiny portion of governments' financial problems, and by all accounts, there are plenty of parties to blame for the growth in payrolls and obligations. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Charles Duhigg 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Everyone must be in the same competitive situation, including on the fiscal level. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Francois Hollande 
			 
		 
	
	
	 
	
	
	
	
		A lot of writers do think of their characters as living beings. I know that's the way people think. That's why I try to make them real in a certain way, because otherwise people won't read them. It's fine if some readers think of them as real. It's just not the way that I think of them. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Dennis Cooper