"God only allows us to see such things when he wants something to change"
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"Today, writers want to impress other writers."
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"When God wants to drive a person insane, he grants that person's every wish."
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"Anything that makes us forget who we are and what we want; that way we can work in order to produce, reproduce, and earn money."
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"Right, from now on, whenever you want to find out about something, plunge straight in."
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"If you really want to dream, be fully awake."
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"Because there is a force that wants you to realize your Personal Legend; it whets your appetite with a taste of success"
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"I am living here and now. The blessing of my life is that I am totally concentrating on the present moment. And I want to be because there is nothing but the present moment."
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"I felt, this is what I want to be in my life. I want to be an actress."
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"I'm here to tell you that the path to peace is right there, when you want to get away."
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"So soon as this want or power [of love] is dead, man becomes the living sepulchre of himself, and what yet survives is the mere husk of what once he was."
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"Maybe I'm wrong because I've not met the person yet, I really don't think I'd want to be with someone in the industry. I really don't think so. Once bitten, twice shy."
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"I really don't like people that go on about getting followed around, I don't like it - there are people in the industry that don't wanna take everything that comes with it. I take it all."
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"I train for about an hour five days a week and feel I'm in the best shape I've ever been. I can eat what I want and that includes scoffing half a big bar of Cadbury's a day."
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"If you want it, measure it. If you can't measure it, forget it."
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"There's no way of telling why you want to do things beforehand. Something just grabs you. It might not grab you six months later, and it might not have grabbed you six months before, but at that particular moment it grabs you, so you jump on it."
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"You don't want to repeat yourself for one. You don't want to fall into the clichés for another. And you don't want to be licentious really. You want to be descriptive, if you can be. And you're not setting out to arouse anybody."
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"I have a very, very healthy relationship with food in that I eat whatever I want, whenever I want. I never restrict quantities or types of food."
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"I knew I wasn't attractive, and I was very happy about that. I didn't want to be attractive. I didn't want to attract. As long as no one wanted to be let in, I didn't have to shut anyone out."
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"I didn't want to do the whole, get the hottest person thing. I wanted to make sure every record felt right."
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