Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. — Judy Garland

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I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance. ― bell hooks

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I have a theory that children remember two things-when you weren't there and when they threw up.

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Take notes. Everything is copy.

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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. – Victor Hugo

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You can settle for reality, or you can go off, like a fool, and dream another dream.

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Somebody tell the damn players to start playing like old school. - Karl Malone

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Believe me, if I looked good, it’s not an accident. — Nora Ephron

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When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

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Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.

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