"I'm interested in how artists and writers do this, using art as therapy. Escaping into the worlds we create. We're all victims and few of us are truly free."
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"Let's face it. Chocolate is the world's most well-loved food."
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"I have the largest private collection in the world [of Hollywood memorabilia]."
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"There's still sexism in the world, so there's still sexism in publishing and in graduate school. But it is different. Now, it's more coded and harder to detect. It was more explicit when I was in school. There were no rules against male professors asking out female students. The reverse didn't happen since female professors were rare or nonexistent. Visiting writers came, 90% of them male, and some expected that a female student would materialize as his date for the visit."
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"When I trip, I feel like that's the world saying come here for a second. It just pulls me closer for a second, yeah what do you want? I just want to remind you that you're uncoordinated. I'm aware of that, thank you... can I go now? Yeah, you can go, but never ever try to outrun me. Ok, world, see you later. Yeah, I'll see you in about 50 years."
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"Being excited about what we do every day and sharing our gifts with the world is how we cultivate joy and energy."
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"Every time one person becomes peaceful in their own life, it changes the world."
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"When you stay in the moment, you have all the time in the world, and whatever needs to be done will be completed in the exact right time."
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"What do you expect from a culture and a nation that exerted more of its national will fighting against Disney World and Big Macs than the Nazis?"
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"South Africa, so utterly improbably, is a beacon of hope in a dark and troubled world."
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"The world needs a revolution led by women."
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"The leaders that the world admires seem almost all to be people who haven't had things quite so smooth or easy in their lives."
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"Hodie mihi cras tibi, said the inscription. Sic transit gloria mundi. My turn today, yours tomorrow. And thus passes away the glory of the world."
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"Do ye not understand?"he said, in near desparation. "I would lay the world at your feet, Claire-and I have nothing to give ye!" He honestly thought it mattered."
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"But just then, for that fraction of time, it seems as though all things are possible. You can look across the limitations of your own life, and see that they are really nothing. In that moment when time stops, it is as though you know you could undertake any venture, complete it and come back to yourself, to find the world unchanged, and everything just as you left it a moment before. And it's as though knowing that everything is possible, suddenly nothing is necessary."
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"He shook his head, absorbed in one of his feats of memory, those brief periods of scholastic rapture where he lost touch with the world around him, absorbed completely in conjuring up knowledge from all its sources."
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"I have the easiest job in the world! It's an excuse to get up there, goof around and have fun."
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"From age eleven to age sixteen I lived a spartan life without the usual adolescent uncertainty. I wanted to be the best swimmer in the world, and there was nothing else."
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"This is a weakness of the world. Someone thinks they've discovered something for the first time. They want to be authoritative about it."
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"Power has got to be the most intoxicating thing in the world—and of all forms of power the most intoxicating is fame."
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