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Chris Burke Actor
Motivated

“I want to do theater and I am looking forward to doing more Television and Movies. I also want to direct some plays in theater workshops for people with disabilities.”

Chili Davis Professional Athlete
Love

“I've always favored kids as a player. If I walked out of the locker room and there were 100 people there and 50 of them were kids, I'd sign the 50 kids before anything else.”

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Charlotte Bronte Novelist, Poet
Courageous

“For a long time the fear of seeming singular scared me away; but by degrees, as people became accustomed to me and my habits, and to such shadows of peculiarity as were engrained in my nature - shades, certainly not striking enough to interest, and perhaps not prominent enough to offend, but born in and with me, and no more to be parted with than my identity - but slow degrees I became a frequenter of this straight narrow path.”

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Determined

“I want to be a Kid Reporter because I would like to meet interesting people, and I also love being in front of the camera! As a Kid Reporter, I would love to learn how to be a better writer and interview people.”

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Spiritual

“Being on TV brings a sort of attention in high school that can be negative sometimes. People, immediately they're going to have that in their back pocket. If they don't like you, they're going to be able to pull that out and throw it in your face.”

Charles Yu Author
Love

“All of her heart, a meaningless phrase, but correct and precise, too. She used her heart to love him, not her head, and not her words and not her thoughts or ideas or feelings or any other vehicle or object or device people use to deliver love or love-like things.”

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Charles Bukowski Poet, Novelist
Thoughtful

“i dunno," i said, "but i have an idea that people who don't think too much tend to look younger longer”

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Charles Bukowski Poet, Novelist
Lonely

“I have one problem, I don’t hate people. They disgust me and I want to get away from them. I do not have hatred. I have an escape mechanism.”

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Charles Bukowski Poet, Novelist
Philosophical

“People don't need love. What they need is success in one form or another. It can be love but it needn't be.”

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Charles Bukowski Poet, Novelist
Angry

“The trouble with these people is that their cities have never been bombed and their mothers have never been told to shut up.”

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Charles Bukowski Poet, Novelist
Melancholic

“That's how it is with books, isn't it: They're not in a hurry. They'll wait for you till you're ready. People empty me. I have to go away to refill.”

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Charles Bukowski Poet, Novelist
Lonely

“As a recluse I couldn't bear traffic. It had nothing to do with jealousy, I simply disliked people, crowds, anywhere, except at my readings. People diminished me, they sucked me dry.”

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Charles Bukowski Poet, Novelist
Angry

“When I'm drinking around people, I tend to get silly or pugnacious or wild, which can cause problems.”

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Charles Bukowski Poet, Novelist
Sad

“Too often the people complain that they have done nothing with their lives and then they wait for somebody to tell them that this isn't so.”

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Charles Bukowski Poet, Novelist
Philosophical

“There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don't live up until their death.”

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Charles Bukowski Poet, Novelist
Grateful

“People were usually much better in their letters than in reality. They were much like poets in this way.”