"I definitely do things on my terms, it may not seem that way but I actually do."

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"I definitely do things on my terms, it may not seem that way but I actually do."

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"I feel like I've reached an age where I can relax a little bit with the knowledge of what I've been through, take all that experience and use it. I love the challenge of trying to get back to where I've been, and beyond it."

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Milan Kundera, Czechoslovakian Writer

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Patti Digh, American Writer

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"If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

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"If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last."

Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian Novelist

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"There was no better path to autonomy for an ambitious young businesswoman than to be married off to a respectable corpse."

Elizabeth Gilbert, American Novelist

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"I'm going to do things when they are right for me."

Paul Gascoigne, English Athlete

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"It is only just that anything that grows up on its own should feel it has nothing to repay for an upbringing which it owes no one."

Plato, Greek Philosopher

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"I follow my own methods, and tell as much or as little as I choose. That is the advantage of being unofficial."

Arthur Conan Doyle, British Writer

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"...your life is yours to shape as you wish with free will..."

Dean Koontz, American Author

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