"Chicken exits are self-sabotage. They give you a false explanation for why you don't have something you want."
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"Writers want recognition, audience, some corroboration that all those hours at the desk and in daydreams add up to something in the esteem of others."
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"I grow very impatient with prose writers who don't pay attention to the cadence of the sentence. If you start as a poet, you're wooed by the music of language; you want to put that into your practice."
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"Coach wants me to shoot, and he tells me never to lose my aggressiveness. That's most important."
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"I want to be a saint, a real saint while I am young, for there is so much work to do."
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"If you want to make order, put your own heart in order, and, having put one's heart in order, one can regulate the family order."
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"I want to bring things up to room temperature, especially poultry, before I cook it because I want it to cook faster so that there's less moisture loss."
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"If I had a project that I had auditioned for and I was getting close to getting it, I didn't want to tell anybody because I thought then I wouldn't get it, but in reality that really had no bearing on whether or not I got a part."
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"I think there are certain people that you'll always want to impress no matter how much success you have."
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"You need to start behaving like the person you want to attract."
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"When you're going to spend a couple of weeks with people, you want to be with people that are enjoyable."
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"I can’t let you go now. I want to go places with you; obscure little places, just to be able to say: here I came with her."
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"The period without the diary remains an ordeal. Every evening I want my diary as one wants opium."
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"I want to make my own discoveries…….penetrate the evil which attracts me"
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"I do not want to be the leader. I refuse to be the leader. I want to live darkly."
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"I usually eat anything I want. I'm not a big junk food guy, really."
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"When a friend is sick, I see the situation for what it is, not what it isn't, and I offer to help as much as she wants, not as much as I want."
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"It is unrealistic to want to be happy all the time."
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"I want to be a machine."
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"I want everybody to think alike. I think everybody should be a machine."
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