"If you want to be faithful to someone, start by being faithful to yourself."
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"You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen."
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"The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom appears a paradox, or that a sarcasm is converted into a sermonoid."
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"There is an enormous amount of interest in raw and organic foods, but more recently it is superfoods. People want to know more about chia seeds, mocha, raw chocolate and cocoa, and what they can do for you."
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"We only want what success we can get despite encouraging others to share our general view about reality."
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"When I attack a role, be it TV, film or stage, the first thing I say is, I don't want to know anything. If it's good I don't want to hear it; if it's bad I don't want to hear it. The only thing either thing can do is distract me. I like to stay focused"
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"I am nowhere near my limit. I just want to see if there are such things as limits. I want to go and find out."
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"For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject."
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"Ask the Outsider what he ultimately wants,and he will admit he doesn't know.Why? Because he wants it instinctively,and it is not always possible to tell what your instincts are driving towards."
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"Facebook revamped its search feature. Now you can search for any post that has ever appeared on your page. It's helpful if you want to waste time this year remembering exactly how you wasted time last year."
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"I don't want it all to be pretty - it's a combination of loss and gain. Things are born, live and hang in limbo. That's what life's about."
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"It's like all technology: either not powerful enough or too powerful. It will never do exactly what you want it to do."
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"I want to give you some love, I want to give you some good good lovin"
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"All the other stuff without love? Not worth a whole lot. Love starts with ourselves and needs to be approached like anything else we want to master-with a lot of diligent studying and practicing!"
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"It's not about 'what can I accomplish?' but 'what do I want to accomplish?' Paradigm shift."
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"Staying vulnerable is a risk we have to take if we want to experience connection."
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"A woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing doesn't want to go to the movies to watch a film about a woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing."
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"I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To enter ordinary relationships. I want ecstasy. I am a neurotic — in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself."
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"I want to own my own business because then I can be in control of everything."
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"If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith."
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