"Childhood is the province of the imagination and when I immerse myself in it, I re-create it as it was, as it could have been, as I wanted - and didn't want - it to be."
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"Shirley MacLaine once said that she didn't want to be a big star, just a long star. That's what I want too."
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"Pageants were a platform for me, and they helped me get to where I am today. You suddenly stop being just another girl, and people want to listen to what you have to say."
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"God wants to speak to you on a one-to-one basis every day. He wants to lead you to the good things He has in store for you."
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"All god wants us to do is do what he asks us to do."
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"The truth is God created us to have relationship with us. He wants to love us and take care of us, and He wants us to love Him. That's where our walk with Christ has to start."
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"If you're fighting moodiness and depression you don't want to hang around a bunch of other moody and depressed people."
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"God is a great God! I want to encourage you to expect great things from Him."
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"Do what you don’t want to do to get what you want to get."
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"I can honestly tell you that without God I would not be who I am today. He has done such an amazing work in my life and I want everyone to have the same freedom."
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"God doesn't love me any more or less because I had some work done on my face. You know, I prayed about it a long, long, long, long, long time, because there again, I wouldn't want to do anything that I felt was going to be offensive to God."
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"We want our marriage to be a triumph, not a tragedy."
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"If we're really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what's causing us to do what we do."
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"It seems like a lot of people seek their peace in things. And most of us are not even satisfied with the things we have... we always want more."
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"If I have to build a big company by mistreating other people then the Bible says WOE to me. I don't know what that is, but I don't want any of it."
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"The Republicans want to turn Medicare into a voucher plan that will end guaranteed coverage of medical bills for the elderly."
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"[John] Hughes was well aware that to ignore the seriousness of young people is to encourage things like Columbine, so you might want to listen. And we were all pretty serious, a little bit, in high school. Some a little more than others."
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"I wanted to meet Orson Welles. So I was like, whatever, somehow get me in on this. I'm able to get cast in it, but Orson Welles worked alone. He worked before all of us worked. He didn't want to work with anyone else."
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"I want my arguments to be good arguments on the basis of what I actually have to say."
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"people, in forming their opinions of others, are usually lazy enough to go by whatever is most obvious or whatever chance remark they happen to hear. So the best policy is to dictate to others the opinion you want them to have of you."
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