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Right now, writing for me is most rewarding because I'm old enough now to have something to say, which probably wasn't always the case.

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I have the best job I could possibly have. Michael Bloomberg
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I don't know, I just want to be happy. I could be in a hole somewhere. Or I could completely lose it and be some hippy living in the woods with my dad. Shia LaBeouf
... Remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest. Margaret Atwood
Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them. E. M. Forster
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I had never been near insane persons before in my life, and had not the faintest idea of what their actions were like. Nellie Bly
Ben E. King quote: "I never even visualized for a second doing what I'm doing."
I never even visualized for a second doing what I'm doing. Ben E. King
When I first started with 'Twilight,' I didn't have any experience. I didn't know what I was doing. So I was pretty intimidated by the editors and the publishers, and I felt like I was a kid in school with the principal telling me what to do! It was hard for me. Stephenie Meyer
Rules?" said Roark. "Here are my rules: what can be done with one substance must never be done with another. No two materials are alike. No two sites on earth are alike. No two buildings have the same purpose. The purpose, the site, the material determine the shape. Nothing can be reasonable or beautiful unless it's made by one central idea, and the idea sets every detail. A building is alive, like a man. Its integrity is to follow its own truth, its one single theme, and to serve its own... Ayn Rand
When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. People used to say, 'That's just that ole blues singer.' B. B. King
David R. Ellis quote: "I jumped 18 cars on a motorcycle, so I did almost everything."
I jumped 18 cars on a motorcycle, so I did almost everything. David R. Ellis
The message of "The Winner Takes It All" is straightforward: It argues that the concept of relationships ending on mutual terms is an emotional fallacy. One person is inevitably okay and the other is inevitably devastated. Chuck Klosterman