Being a family means you are a part of something very wonderful. It means you will love and be loved for the rest of your life. — Lisa Weed

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If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure. ― Philip Pullman

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Hey, you got something going here. I think we've got a chance for some progressive policy that actually focuses on poor and working people. - Cornel West

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Thanks to the success of Henning Mankell and Peter Hoeg, there wasn't the same stigma attached to writing genre thrillers in Scandinavia as there was in many other cultures. Quite the opposite, in fact. - Jo Nesbo

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Sometimes you need a little crisis to get your adrenaline flowing and help you realize your potential. ― Jeannette Walls

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One must be something to do something - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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I'll be damned if I'm going to let the white man lick me. There's something out here that I've got to do for my kids, and I'm not going to stop until I've done it. - Medgar Evers

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Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion. ― Red Haircrow

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Jeff Eastin is good in that he'll tell me a plot twist that's coming up if he thinks it would be something Peter would know ahead of time, and if it's something that would be a surprise to Peter, I'll tell Jeff, 'Oh, don't tell me. I don't want to know.' And then it's exciting to read it and exciting to play it. - Tim DeKay

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Improvement usually means doing something that we have never done before. — Shigeo Shingo

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