"What counts in a good story is the person inside. Keep it simple."
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"I'm not a person that socializes very well."
"The story of one person is the story of all of humanity."
"And the person who loves wholeheartedly feels free."
"You cannot trust a person until you know where and how he lives"
"I am an example of a person who got zeroed into a philosophy early."
"Divorce isn't just the person, it's everything that goes with it - your kids, the adjustment, everything."
"A person can perform only from strength. One cannot build performance on weakness, let alone on something one cannot do at all."
"The experience of the human race indicates strongly that the only person in abundant supply is the universal incompetent."
"Observe that open loves are held to be more honourable than secret ones, and that the love of the noblest and highest, even if their persons are less beautiful than others, is especially honourable."
"My underwear is my own person buisness."
"I think in losing we find out who that person really is."
"I don't think Donald Trump is the right person because I very much disagree with him."
"The person who is incapable of making a mistake, is incapable of anything."
"Whether you look for the good or look for the bad in a person, you'll find it." A. Lincoln"
"The person of wisdom is the person of years."
"Except that a human being is both the public and the private. We are both, private and public in the same person."
"If you're alive, you're a creative person."
"I can see how the authorities could not like Todd [ Willingham], because he's not a person who is going to give you respect if you don't deserve it just because you say something."
"Oh, I have felt lust. And I've indulged lust. But no other woman has turned me into another person."