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It doesn't seem to matter how often vaccines are proved safe or supplements are shown to offer nothing of value. When people don't like facts, they ignore them.
Michael Specter
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Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
Karin Slaughter
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If you don't like my book, write your own. If you don't think you can write a novel, that ought to tell you something. If you think you can, do. No excuses. If you still don't like my novels, find a book you do like.
Rita Mae Brown
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When you're just like everybody else, you've nothing to offer other than your conformity.


Wayne Dyer
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If you're trying to learn how to act from a class, you're analyzing the teachers' movements and their intricacies, and it becomes like a pantomime of you wanting to be them, and that's wrong. Literature is an easier way to study acting, because then you can take any kind of spin. It's your own imagination, and your own version of it.
Shia LaBeouf
On the way to work good-hearted young girls sometimes offer me their seats, which I accept and bless them in return, a transaction satisfying to all concerned.
Lionel Blue
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Own your identity. Love who you are in the world. Love your deafness.


Nyle DiMarco
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I started crying, because there's nothing like hearing that the artist who originally did the song likes your version.
Kelly Rowland
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A man is like a cat; chase him and he will run - sit still and ignore him and he'll come purring at your feet.
Helen Rowland
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I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.


Jack Kerouac
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In 2008, while the film version of my book 'Choke' was coming to market, my mother was diagnosed with lung cancer. That meant that I had to appear in public to promote a comedy about a son trying to save his dying mother - the plot of Choke - while privately I was caring for my own dying mother. It was torture.
Chuck Palahniuk
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Simple people have much to offer. We, too, in return, must give to them to the best of our abilities. We must, with all our heart, try to help them acquire what they truly deserve.
Simin Daneshvar
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I read 'Holes' in 10th grade, and I haven't read a full book since. The movie version with Shia LaBeouf was OK, but the book was way better.
Domo Genesis
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You can't ask the press to service you with everything that they have and not expect some of the other stuff in return if you're going to live your life like I have.
Kiefer Sutherland
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You can't be all of the people you're influenced by, so you make your own filter and create your own beautiful, unique thing in the world. Soak up the world, man, and make something of your own.
CeeLo Green
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Nothing wrong with making money or doing what you need to do to sell, but I think it shows when you're writing something to pay the bills and when you're writing something because it's really your version of the world.
Laurell K. Hamilton
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The experience of reading a book is always unique. I believe that you render a version of the story, when you read a book, in a way that is unique and special to each person who reads it.
Carlton Cuse
The ability to absorb a book and make someone else's words and story your own was exactly was I was doing on stage.
Alan King
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Return to your friends and tell them that we came here with no peaceful intent, but ready for battle, and determined to avenge our own wrongs and set our country free. Let your masters come and attack us: we are ready to meet them beard to beard.
William Wallace
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Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
Natalie Clifford Barney
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