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Yoko Ono Artist, Musician, Activist
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"People just love to be entertained, and in order to entertain them, you have to do things in a way that they understand."

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Tamra Davis Film Director, Producer
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"I wanted to make a film that wasn't just a biography. When you watched it, you actually felt that you watched a movie, that you had an emotional reaction. In order to do that, I felt that I had to really keep myself emotionally raw while working on the film. I had to feel myself crying, so the audience could be moved, too."

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"Most aspects of my training didn’t agree with me. There wasn’t as much bossing around as I’d hoped for, and there was way too much following orders."

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Veronica Roth Author
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"I have realized that part of being Dauntless is being willing to make things more difficult for yourself in order to be self-sufficient."

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Veronica Roth Author
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"From your results I have determined that you are one of the strongest Divergent, which I say not to compliment you but to explain my purpose. If I am to develop a simulation that cannot be thwarted by the Divergent mind, I must study the strongest Divergent mind in order to shore up all weaknesses in the technology."

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Veronica Roth Author
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"That said, in the two weeks before I leave for the Dark Days tour, I am going radio silent, which means I will be avoiding the Internet at all costs in order to revise, revise, revise. I will miss you. Tris says hi, though."

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Victor Hugo Novelist, Poet
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"The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is going down instead of up."

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Victor Hugo Novelist, Poet
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"She worked in order to live, and presently fell in love, also in order to live, for the heart, too, has its hunger."

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Taylor Swift Singer, Songwriter
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"My head's never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch 'CSI' or 'Law & Order,' where I have to follow the crime. If I can't turn my head off during that, I know I've really got a problem."

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Taylor Swift Singer, Songwriter
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"I do not need some guy around in order to get inspiration, in order to make a great record, in order to live my life, in order to feel okay about myself. And I wanted to show my fans the same thing."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"I have sometimes thought that, in order to be a good minister, it was necessary to leave the ministry. The profession is antiquated. In an altered age, we worship in the dead forms of our forefathers."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"In the order of nature, we cannot render benefits to those from whom we receive them, or only seldom. But the benefit we receive must be rendered again, line for line, deed for deed, cent for cent, to somebody. Beware of too much good staying in your hand. It will fast corrupt and worm worms. Pay it away quickly in some sort."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"Whenever the average intellect of the clergy declines in the balance with the average intellect of the people the churches will be shut up and a new order of things [will] begin."

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