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Joss Stone Singer-songwriter
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"I'm just very much in love with love. I have this fairy-tale idea of what love should be, and I want it to be magical. I want everything in my life to be magical, actually. If you ever come to my house, you'll see what I mean. I've made it like a fairyland. Flowers and hearts everywhere, and there's colors and little gems hanging from the windows. I just like things to be magical if they can be, and in love there's your opportunity. I think that's how it should be, and if it's not like that, then, "Nah. Don't want it"."

Mean Heart Flower
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Joyce Carol Oates Author, Poet
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"What does it mean to be born? After we die, will it be the same thing as it was before we were born? Or a different kind of nothingness? Because there might be knowledge then. Memory."

Mean Doe Memories
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Joyce Carol Oates Author, Poet
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"Art is a means of memorialization of the past, a record of a rapidly vanishing world; a means of exorcising, at least temporarily, the ravages of homesickness. To speak of 'what is past, or passing or to come'-in the most meticulous language thereby to assure its permanence; to honor those we've loved and learned from and must outlive."

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Joyce Carol Oates Author, Poet
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"Because the meaning of a story does not lie on its surface, visible and self-defining, does not mean that meaning does not exist. Indeed, the ambiguity of meaning, its inner private quality, may well be part of the writer's vision."

Mean Self Lying
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Joyce Carol Oates Author, Poet
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"I don't feel I write fast. I write in longhand and do so much revision. On the page, it's so old-fashioned. I could write a whole novel on scrap paper, scribbles and things. I keep looking at it and something develops. For me, using a word processor would mean staring at a screen for too many hours."

Writing Mean Paper
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Joyce DeWitt Actress
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"I mean, sitcoms shouldn't be doing 'Saturday Night Live.' You can't just do bit after bit after bit. You have to string it together with tight writing and performances. Hollywood seems to have forgotten how to do this."

Writing Mean Night
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Joyce Meyer Author, Speaker
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"Things in themselves have no life in them. A car can't comfort or encourage you. A house means nothing if there's no life and love inside."

Mean Car Life And Love
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Joyce Meyer Author, Speaker
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"When we trust God more than our feelings, it confuses the devil. I mean, when he throws you his best shot and he can't budge you from believing God, he won't know what to do with you anymore."

Believe Mean Feelings
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Joyce Meyer Author, Speaker
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"Contentment with life is not a feeling, but it is a decision we must make. Contentment does not mean that we never want to see change or improvement, but it does mean we can be happy where we are and will do the best we can with what we have. It also means we will maintain an attitude that allows us to enjoy the gift of life."

Mean Attitude Decision
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Joyce Meyer Author, Speaker
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"If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn't mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else's bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?"

Mean Attitude Decision
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Joyce Meyer Author, Speaker
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"Sadly, if we are not confident about our choices, we can easily let other peoples' comments make us feel guilty and ruin the joy we need to experience in life through doing the little things that mean a lot to us."

Mean Choices Confidence
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Joyce Meyer Author, Speaker
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"I have learned from personal experience that putting trust in God means there will be some unanswered questions. That was a hard lesson for me because I naturally want to understand everything... to know what's going on so I can feel like I'm in control."

Mean Lessons Unanswered Questions
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Joyce Meyer Author, Speaker
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"My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable."

Mean Father Unstable
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Joyce Meyer Author, Speaker
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"I'm sure most parents read to their children to explain what certain things mean. So books are a good way to convey a message to anybody. Everybody reads."

Mean Children Book
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Juan Williams Journalist
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"Ann Romney... looked to me like a corporate wife. The stories she told about struggles - eh! It's hard for me to believe. I mean, she's a very rich woman, and I know that, and America knows that."

Believe Mean Struggle
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Judith Butler Philosopher, Gender Theorist
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"To say that gender is performative is a little different because for something to be performative means that it produces a series of effects. We act and walk and speak and talk in ways that consolidate an impression of being a man or being a woman."

Men Mean Different
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Judith Butler Philosopher, Gender Theorist
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"We're not in control [of circumstances], but that does not mean we don't exercise a certain kind of conditioned agency. That's what it means to live in a community. That's what it means to live in society."

Mean Exercise Agency
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