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Paulo Coelho Writer
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"And although she was sometimes dissatisfied with herself, she felt unable to go beyond her own limitations. Books were safer."

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Peter Gould Artist, Designer
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"Sometimes the story takes you to places that you want to go and sometimes it takes you places you don't want to go."

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Plutarch Philosopher, Historian
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"The crowns of kings do not prevent those who wear them from being tormented sometimes by violent headaches."

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Petrarch Poet, Scholar
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"There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen. Other pleasures fail us or wound us while they charm, but the pen we take up rejoicing and lay down with satisfaction, for it has the power to advantage not only its lord and master, but many others as well, even though they be far away - sometimes, indeed, though they be not born for thousands of years to come."

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Edgar Wright Film Director
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"Usually in TV... A TV director could be anything from a main grip to just a glorified cameraman, and sometimes a director can be the person who is hired last. It's very much a producer's medium."

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Elie Wiesel Writer, Holocaust Survivor
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"In my town we studied the five Books of Moses, but rarely the prophets. We studied the Talmud so much that I sometimes knew the prophets because of the prophetic quotations in the Talmud. We almost never studied the prophets themselves."

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Elizabeth Gilbert Author, Memoirist
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"I see a lot of women who can't travel when they're young, and then their kids grow up and they become amazing adventurers. Travel is not only for the young. Sometimes it's wasted on the young."

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