"Why do people want to pretend that death is sleep? It isn't. It isn't."
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"Why do you say vague things if you don't want to be asked about them?"
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"We can’t survive alone, but even if we could, we wouldn't want to."
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"I want to cry because something terrible happened, and I saw it, and I could not see a way to mend it."
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"Would to God, brethren, I could tell you WHO I am! Would to God I could tell you WHAT I know! But you would call it blasphemy and want to take my life!"
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"I don't want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie."
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"There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing."
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"Anytime someone tells me that I can't do something, I want to do it more."
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"I've wanted one thing in my life. I don't want to be that girl that gets that one thing then complains."
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"I wouldn't want to date a pushover who would let me make all the plans and have all the control."
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"I don't believe in endorsing a product that you don't want to endorse."
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"I'm intrigued and drawn to people who know exactly who they are, who know what they want, who live life on their own terms."
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"Don't ever call a guy first. The thing they want the most is whatever they can't have. It sounds really juvenile, but it works."
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"Rebellion is what you make of it. When you've been on a tour bus for two months straight, and then you get in your car and drive wherever you want, that can feel rebellious."
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"They can say whatever they want about my personal life because I know what my personal life is, and it involves a lot of TV and cats and girlfriends."
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"I want to write a song for someone who has just fallen in love or someone single and living their live."
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"And, honestly, if somebody wants to criticize me for not being a trainwreck, that's fine with me!"
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"I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear."
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"I didn't want to just be another girl singer. I wanted there to be something that set me apart."
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"I really don’t want a compilation of sounds. I just need them to be songs."
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