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Augusten Burroughs

"Reading takes solitude and it takes focus."

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Donna Grant

"Don't invest everything in another man's calling."

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Donna Grant

"Concentrate less on people and much on purpose. People can put your purpose in disarray, your purpose can put people in disarray."

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Donna Grant

"Everything you need comes into focus when you abandon the unneeded."

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Donna Grant

"Fix your gazes on the invisible."

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Donna Grant

"Stay focused! Know where you are heading towards in life with your life! People going somewhere don't just go anywhere!"

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Donna Grant

"You gotta make it a priority to make your priorities a priority."

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Donna Grant

"A busy life is not necessarily an effective life."

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Donna Grant

"There are so many things and people craving your attention such that you could so easily forget that you have a purpose to fulfill within a specified time on the earth."

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Donna Grant

"The real direction of your vision is as important as your vision. Notwithstanding how large the goal post might be, the power behind your shots least matter as its direction, for it is more of the direction that will determine the goals you shall score and the final score in the end."

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Donna Grant

"It's hard to focus on loud mod to read something like the TV is playing something like Advertising and other boredom stuff and stupid and you are reading an article about topics which are difficult one."

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Augusten Burroughs
"I was in advertising for years. That was cushy, you know? It's pretty cushy in a lot of ways, but I hated it."

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Augusten Burroughs
"Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true."

Want

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Augusten Burroughs
"As a child, I was never drawn toward depraved or extreme situations; I really wanted a normal little childhood. Unfortunately, that's just not what happened."

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Augusten Burroughs
"I think writers tend to be experience junkies, and I think they also tend to want to be on the outside looking in."

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Augusten Burroughs
"But my favorite band is Curbside Life, out of Chicago."

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Augusten Burroughs
"I'm like the guy who prepares your taxes or a dentist. I'm very conservative and boring in a lot of ways."

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Augusten Burroughs
"I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would write something worthy of publication. I understood I might be in my forties or my fifties or even my sixties, but I felt confident that it would happen."

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Augusten Burroughs
"I was on the cover of a lot of newspapers. I was on the cover of USA Today for every single day for a month. I was on the masthead, so I tend to get recognized a lot, and in weird places. It's always flattering, and it's always odd. It's always at the worst possible time."

Time

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Augusten Burroughs
"I'm always prepared for the worst. I was prepared to have the book come out, sell seven copies, and have to keep working in advertising, so it was just great that it was received so well and by such a huge audience."

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Augusten Burroughs
"I like, though, that people have a hunger to connect with other people. They're desperate to know that you're not lying to them or misleading them."

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