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"I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it."
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"Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven."
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"It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego."
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"Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one."
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"I will act as if what I do makes a difference."
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"There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord."
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"Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk."
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"In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor."
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"A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators."
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"I don't want to be a star. If you have to label me anything, I'm an actor - I guess. A journeyman actor. I think 'star' is what you call actors who can't act."
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"The denial of our duty to act in this case is a denial of our right to act; and if we have no right to act, then may we well be termed the white slaves of the North, for like our brethren in bonds, we must seal our lips in silence and despair."
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"I have a lot of stuff I want to talk about and offer up. It would be odd not to have ideas about something."
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"I went out to Mount Kilimanjaro, which I thought was very beautiful, but there were a lot of people there."
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"You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling."
Distrust

"I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it."
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"I admire the world of the books and the characters that she's created, but I'm not an addict of Harry Potter. I don't feel possessive about it."
Books

"When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life."
Life

"There are those moments when you shake someone's hand, have a conversation with someone, and suddenly your all bound together because you share your humanity in one simple moment."
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"I certainly gained a lot by reading about Shanghai."
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"Little moments can have a feeling and a texture that is very real."
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"One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor."
Family
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