Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words. ― Rumi

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Growing up in this post-apartheid era, the first generation of teens in South Africa living in this new democracy, I often found myself feeling different. I was often the only person of color in an otherwise all-white school. And within the Indian community, because of my training with an English acting teacher, my accent was very different.

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You attract who you are being. When you work at being the type of person that you want to attract, you attract those kinds of people into your life. ― Roy T. Bennett

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Nothing so fretful, so despicable as a Scribbler, see what I am, and what a parcel of Scoundrels I have brought about my ears, and what language I have been obliged to treat them with to deal with them in their own way; - all this comes of Authorship.

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So, I am independently well-off and don't have to do anything, but I still do. I write books, lecture around the world, work with scientists and governments.

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You just can't beat the person who never gives up. — Babe Ruth

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If a person with multiple personalities threatens suicide, is that considered a hostage situation? ― Steven Wright

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Crossing out is an art that is, perhaps, even more difficult than writing. It requires the sharpest eye to decide what is superfluous and must be removed. And it requires ruthlessness toward yourself -- the greatest ruthlessness and self-sacrifice. You must know how to sacrifice parts in the name of the whole.

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Be the kind of person who dares to face life's challenges and overcome them rather than dodging them. ― Roy T. Bennett

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I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romantic person has a desperate confidence that they won't.

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