"Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion."

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"Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion."

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"It feels kinda weird being back in a high school cause I haven't been in a high school for about a year. So um, it's kinda interesting coming back, and y'know seeing the lockers, with all the signs, the handmade signs, so being in high school again is a little bit strange but in a good way."

Taylor Swift, American Musician

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"Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood."

Gloria Steinem, American Activist

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"I get up in the morning, do my e-mail, I check my e-mails all day. I'll go online and I'll buy my books at Amazon.com, but I don't want to buy all of them because I want to go to Duttons and I want to buy books from another human being."

Joseph Bologna, American Actor

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"It is the prayer of my innermost being to realize my supreme identity in the liberated play of consciousness, the Vast Expanse. Now is the moment, Here is the place of Liberation."

Alex Grey, American Artist

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"Let each become all that he was created capable of being."

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

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"After being sworn in to office, vice presidents have usually been relegated to the sidelines, where they just don't get to do very much."

Mary Cheney, American Celebrity

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"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"Only the last two planes, I think, had any shot of being intercepted and taken down on 9/11."

Richard Ben Veniste, American Lawyer

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"What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid."

Robin G. Collingwood, English Philosopher

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"That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the good stuff, and to keep the awful stuff away from their door."

Authority

"I've learned that I get blocked when my subconscious mind is telling me that I've taken the work in a wrong direction, and that once I start listening to what my subconscious is trying to tell me, I can work out the problem and get moving again."

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"The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself."

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"Working within the limitations of the shared world generally made the writing easier, because I didn't have to invent any of the characters or background, which is usually the hardest part."

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"Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one."

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"Some of my ideas were shot down by Lucasfilm because they stepped on territory that has been reserved for the movies. I didn't have a problem with that."

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"I've experienced writer's block, but never for more than a few days."

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"I went to college, though I didn't take many writing courses."

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"It's hard to generalize, because they're all different. When I started, I decided to take as much advantage as I could of the freedom offered by the SF field."

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