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		There was no other path for me. I knew this was my path. I had to follow it.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
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		Women are able to fit public service into their lives. Once they find out they like it and can do it, there is plenty of room to grow.
	
	  Maggie Hassan Maggie Hassan
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		Communicating with teenage girls is easy unless you're an adult, and then it's like having someone take a pair of pliers and, one-by-one, yank off your fingernails through your ears.
	
	  W. Bruce Cameron W. Bruce Cameron
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		Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.
	
	  Foster Friess Foster Friess
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		All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God.
	
	  Said Nursi Said Nursi
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		I cry at random things, like a flower, or someone giving me a present, or my sister giving me a nice hug.
	
	  Naomie Harris Naomie Harris
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		I don't know if I'm a method actor.
	
	  Caleb Landry Jones Caleb Landry Jones
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		If you want to be a writer, don't worry so much about writing. Read as much as you can. Read as many different writers as you can. Soak up the styles.
	
	  R. L. Stine R. L. Stine
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		If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that's obviously very satisfying, and if they howl with rage or cry, that's honey.
	
	  A. N. Wilson A. N. Wilson
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		Staying chaste until marriage, a commandment of my faith, was one of the most difficult challenges of my young life. I had a powerful sense that if I did not get a grip on my identity, my ethics, and my religion, I would go off the rails.
	
	  Feisal Abdul Rauf Feisal Abdul Rauf
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		In many ways, I feel like having the opportunity to play Gogol in 'The Namesake' really was my dream role in many ways.
	
	  Kal Penn Kal Penn
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		My father established the first women's university in the kingdom, abolished slavery, and tried to establish a constitutional monarchy that separates the position of king from that of prime minister.
	
	  Basmah bint Saud Basmah bint Saud
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		We talk about toughness as a quarterback: it's not sometimes the physical part that you see; it's the mental toughness and the 'I'm going to stand in here, take this shot,' and 'I'm going to deliver it to my guy.'
	
	  Dan Quinn Dan Quinn
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		Basketball wasn't going particularly well, but in my senior year, I did a play and got a wonderful card from a professor that said, 'I don't know what your plans are after school or if acting is a part of it, but you have something special.' Hearing that from someone who I had so much respect for pointed me in that direction.
	
	  Mahershala Ali Mahershala Ali
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		A man of knowledge chooses a path with a heart and follows it and then he looks and rejoices and laughs and then he sees and knows.
	
	  Carlos Castaneda Carlos Castaneda
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		I imagine God to be like my father. My father was always the voice of certainty in my life. Certainty in the wisdom, certainty in the path, certainty always in God. For me God is certainty in everything. Certainty that everything is good and everything is God.
	
	  Yehuda Berg Yehuda Berg
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		I love the ambiguous kind of endings. I think, oftentimes, that's what life really is - there's no concrete path for you to take. It's always kind of a jumble of variables. Behind this door could be a beautiful woman, and behind the same door could be a tiger, you know? You don't know.
	
	  Joe Carnahan Joe Carnahan
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		It's kind of hard get outside of your own frame of reference. To one degree or another, we all go through our breakdowns and we can recognize our lives as a path to awakening or not. We can take our breakdowns as a way to sensitize us or as an excuse to blind and dull ourselves.
	
	  Alex Grey Alex Grey
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		There was no other path for me. I knew this was my path. I had to follow it.
	
	  Alicia Keys Alicia Keys