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"It's got to do with putting yourself in other people's shoes and seeing how far you can come to truly understand them. I like the empathy that comes from acting."
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Personal Development

"We ought to know that all people are not the same and so we must not expect the same attitude from all people. Different people behave differently and that is what makes different people different."
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Personal Development

"If you have carefully examined hundred people you met in your life journey, it means that you have read hundred different books! Every person you know is a book; world is full of walking books; some are boring, some are marvellous, some are weak, some are powerful, but they are all useful because they all carry different experiences of different paths!"
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Personal Development

"Texas has arguably the most extreme separation between the well off and everyday people in the United States."
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Personal Development

"People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else."
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Personal Development

"Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them."
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Personal Development

"People always ask me, how do you do everything you do?"
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Personal Development

"It only takes five people in black robes to determine such crucial issues for our country as abortion, pornography, same-sex 'marriage,' and religious liberties."
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Personal Development

"It is dishonest the way that people suddenly think they've found guitars, and wear their guitar as a badge."
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Personal Development

"I think that people ran out of oxygen and don't really know what happened up there, maybe some of them just made things up because they weren't sure what had happened."
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"Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic, and a gritty urban realism in a breathtaking ride along Chicago's mean streets."
Reviewers

"I always wrote; my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11."
Childhood

"It took me nine months to write 60 pages. It was very frustrating."
Persistence

"The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon."
Possibility

"I'm very honoured that there is a loyal following and I hope it continues."
Hope

"White-collar crime gets more outrageous by the second in America."
Crime

"I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science."
Science

"Around the time I turned 30, I wanted to publish a novel."
Time

"I grew up in conservative rural Kansas in the 1950s when it was expected that girls would not have a life outside the home, so educating them was a waste of time."
Life

"In 1986 we were trying to help women get in print, stay in print, and come to the attention of booksellers and libraries. At that time, books by men mystery writers were reviewed seven times as often as books by women."
Man
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