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Neil Gaiman Author
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"I've learned over the years that everything is more or less the same amount of work, so you may as well set your sights high and try and do something really cool."

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Lauryn Hill Singer, Songwriter
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"Every time that God navigates my ship, there's nothing cerebral going on. There's very little thought. It's almost as if I have the directions. Every time I try to do it myself, I'm conjuring up my own concoction and trying."

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Lauryn Hill Singer, Songwriter
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"I sit here before you trying to figure out how to pay a tax debt? If that's not like enough to slavery, I don't know."

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"He was silent for thirty seconds, maybe a minute. I uncrossed my legs under the table and wondered if this was the right moment to leave. It was as if my whole life revolved around trying to judge the right point in a conversation to say goodbye."

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Hayley Williams Singer, Songwriter
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"When we think we know people inside out and we think we know what's best for them we should try to remember we don't even know what's best for ourselves."

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Frank Herbert Science Fiction Writer
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"Many things we do naturally become difficult only when we try to make them intellectual subjects. It is possible to know so much about a subject that you become totally ignorant."

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