"I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity."

Family, Job

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"I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity."

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"Big Brother is watching you."

George Orwell, British Author

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"Never give up your wife, husband, children and families. Believe that people can change. Give others opportunity to change."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Family, Give, Up, Believe

"It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"Blessed is the womb that born you."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Until now, you have always lived your life alone. Every decision you've made has been for you and you alone. Now, and for the rest of your days, your life will be tied to another's. Every decision you make will be for both of you. What one does affects the other. You are a family, a team inseparable and unbreakable."

Richelle Mead, American Author

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"A rubber plant is just about the ideal family."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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"Father, I know you will hear me, I will speak."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"When we sat down on the couch again, you curled up against my side, like you used to when you were a tod."

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

Family, Nostalgia, Memory, Comfort, Love

"Children are angels."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"I was sixteen and my mother was about to throw me out of the house forever, for breaking a very big rule, even bigger than the forbidden books. The rule was not just No Sex, but definitely No Sex With Your Own Sex."

Jeanette Winterson, British Novelist

Family, Rules, Rebellion, Youth, Identity

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"I had known Cole Porter in Hollywood and New York, spent many a warm hour at his home, and met the talented and original people who were drawn to him."

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"Children don't understand about people loving each other and then suddenly not."

People, Children

"Day after day, I spent long afternoons in the talent pool, being told how to walk, how to talk, how to sit."

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"I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me."

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"I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man."

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"Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese."

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"Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set."

Behavior,

"Trying to make order out of my life was like trying to pick up a jellyfish."

Life, Order, Trying

"Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful."

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"I do not recall spending long hours in front of a mirror loving my reflection."

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