"You want to talk to someone; first open your ears."
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"I want every character be an outsider in some way."
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"Everybody wants to be loved. God already loves you; all you have to do is believe and accept it."
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"I've discovered that when we take time to renew our minds with God's Word, we learn how to think like God thinks, say what God says, and act like He wants us to act."
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"I want to dedicate the rest of my life to spreading the love of Christ. Because God has done so much for me and has given me this platform to speak into millions of lives, I feel it is my duty..."
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"Fairness does not consist so much of everybody's doing the same thing, but of everybody's being willing to do something that others don't want to do."
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"It's really useful to travel, if you want to see new things."
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"So many times we're portrayed in ways that we don't want to be portrayed, in ways that make us seem so ridiculous."
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"I didn't want to be either the cre`me de la cre`me or a martyr. I'd rather be a novelty, especially in a democracy that doesn't understand the language I write in."
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"what i really want - and what i never get - is to be appreciated. do you know what it’s like to work so hard to make sure everyone’s happy, and to have not a single person recognize it"
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"Dad somewhat enjoyed being called gay. He said it made women want to prove the assertion wrong."
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"I haven't heard of anybody who wants to stop living on account of the cost."
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"I've seen too much hate to want to hate, myself."
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"I said to my children, 'I'm going to work and do everything that I can do to see that you get a good education. I don't ever want you to forget that there are millions of God's children who will not and cannot get a good education, and I don't want you feeling that you are better than they are. For you will never be what you ought to be until they are what they ought to be."
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"If you want to be your own master ... always be surprised by evil; never anticipate it."
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"If we are honest and fair, then we are known by that. If we are not, alas, we are known by that as well. What we want to do is do right, but you have to say it, you have to show it, and not stop."
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"In reality, I never want to grow up."
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"I am free to make anything I want as long as I think it will sell."
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"I mean, I am still such the-good-girl. I want everybody to like me. I want everybody to be happy."
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"The big difference between a warrior and a victim is that the victim represses and the warrior refrains. Victims repress because they are afraid to show the emotions, afraid to say what they want to say. To refrain is not the same thing as repression. To refrain is to hold the emotions and to express them in the right moment, not before, not later. That is why warriors are impeccable."
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