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J. K. Rowling Novelist, Screenwriter
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"They don't know we're not allowed to use magic at home. I'm going to have a lot of fun with Dudley this summer."

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"I've given parties that have made Indian rajahs green with envy. I've had prima donnas break $10,000 engagements to come to my smallest dinners. When you were still playing button back in Ohio, I entertained on a cruising trip that was so much fun that I had to sink my yacht to make my guests go home."

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Oliver Reed Actor
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"When I come home and I'm tired from filming all day, I expect her to be there and make sure everything is cool for me. You know, like drawing my bath and helping me into bed."

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Oprah Winfrey Television host, producer, philanthropist
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"I wasn't remembering the gift that God had given me. I had totally put all that aside. And my daughter was growing up before my eyes, and I just wanted to grab hold of that. It goes by so fast. I wanted to watch her. I wanted to be that parent - because at that point in time, I was a single parent. Watch her go to school, and when she got home, be there. I wanted that moment."

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Jack Kerouac Novelist, Poet
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"At night in this part of the West the stars, as I had seen them in Wyoming, were as big as Roman Candles and as lonely as the Prince who's lost his ancestral home and journeys across the spaces trying to find it again, and knows he never will."

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Neil Simon Playwright
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"I go to see plays all the time, and whenever I see Chekhov, I'm amazed at how this Russian play strikes home to me living 100 years later in New York City. I'm drawn to him because of his way with characters and their relationships with each other."

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Gautama Buddha Spiritual Teacher
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"Household life is crowded and dusty; life gone forth is wide open... Suppose I shave off my hair and beard, put on the ochre robe, and go forth from the home life into homelessness."

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Nelson Mandela Political Leader
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"Home is home even for those who aspire to serve wider interests and who have established their home of choice in distant regions."

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Nhat Hanh Zen Master, Author
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"Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes."

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Marcus Tullius Cicero Politician, Philosopher, Orator
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"These (literary) studies are the food of youth, and consolation of age; they adorn prosperity, and are the comfort and refuge of adversity; they are pleasant at home, and are no incumbrance abroad; they accompany us at night, in our travels, and in our rural retreats."

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Hayley Williams Singer, Songwriter
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"So one day he found her crying Coiled up on the dirty ground Her prince finally came to save her & the rest you can figure out But it was a trick & the clock struck twelve Well make sure to build your home brick by boring brick or the wolf's gonna blow it down Keep your feet on the ground When your head's in the clouds"

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Marguerite Duras Writer, Filmmaker
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"The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it."

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Marguerite Duras Writer, Filmmaker
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"The woman is the home. That's where she used to be, and that's where she still is. You might ask me, What if a man tries to be part of the home -- will the woman let him? I answer yes. Because the he becomes one of the children."

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Frank Herbert Science Fiction Writer
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"One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is."

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