"A state of chronic powerlessness eats away at a person"
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"Since I am a person who starts work without clear knowledge of a storyline, every single scene is a pivotal scene."
"No man can love a second time the person whom he has once truly ceased to love."
"Prayer, to the thinking person, is almost inescapable."
"I would never give artificial birth control to an unmarried person."
"When we hate a person, what we hate in his image is something inside ourselves. Whatever isn't inside us can't excite us."
"I cherished hope, it is true, but it vanished when my person reflected . . ."
"I'm not a terrible person, I know that, but sometimes in a relationship, I can be crappy."
"Tis said that persons living on annuities Are longer lived than others."
"There has been, is, and always will be every conceivable type of person."
"you can't really know the person standing before you, because always there is some missing piece"
"I'm always fascinated with how a person becomes a good quality person, a productive person, and how it happened to me, because I was a terror."
"A person may be very secretive and yet have no secrets."
"It must be less wicked to love the wrong person than not to love anybody at all."
"When a person knows and can't make the others understand, what does he do?"
"I was always a junk food person, still am."
"I could not have known then that everybody, every person, has to leave, has to change like seasons; they have to or they die. The seasons remind me that I must keep changing."
"Everything's funny - in the right context and done by the right person."
"I am a person of faith: I am a person who will believe practically anything on no evidence at all."
"I feel like I'm a better person when I'm quieter."