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Kami Garcia Author
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"I want you here. I don't care if it's a hundred degrees and every blade of grass dies. Without you, none of that matters to me."

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Kanye West Rapper, Producer, Fashion Designer
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"People want fame and I would never tell a person to not want that, because it's f--ing awesome. Actually."

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Kanye West Rapper, Producer, Fashion Designer
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"I make music as good as possible, but I do reference cultural icons, because I want my music to be a time capsule of 2007."

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Kanye West Rapper, Producer, Fashion Designer
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"Well, I just don't want to talk to America about my family. Like, this is my baby. This isn't America's baby."

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Kanye West Rapper, Producer, Fashion Designer
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"I remember when both Gnarls Barkley and Justin [Timberlake] lost for Album of the Year [at the Grammys], and I looked at Justin, and I was like: 'Do you want me to go onstage for you? You know, do you want me to fight?"

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J. D. Salinger Novelist, Short Story Writer
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"I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody. I'm sick of myself and everybody else that wants to make some kind of a splash."

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J. D. Salinger Novelist, Short Story Writer
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"I think that one of these days," he said, "you're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got to start going there. But immediately. You can't afford to lose a minute. Not you."

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J. D. Salinger Novelist, Short Story Writer
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"I didn't want any degrees if all the ill-read literates and radio announcers and pedagogical dummies I knew had them by the peck."

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J. K. Rowling Novelist, Screenwriter
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"I've often met people who are terrified, you know, in a straight jacket of their own making because they'd rather do anything that fail. They don't want to try for fear of failing."

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