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"I would never kill a living thing, although I probably have inadvertently while driving automobiles."
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"I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943."
"But Katie knew it was a sin, had known from the moment she made the decision to lie with Adam. However, the transgression wasn't making love without the sanction of marriage. It was that for the first time in her life, Katie had put herself first. Put her own wants and needs above everything and everyone else."
"I have lived my life backwards as compared to my peers. Everyone did incredibly stupid things as teenagers and pre-teens. I didn't. I was the one telling everybody that they were incredibly stupid. Now that they are all past that stage and we are all much older- I am the one doing incredibly stupid things. I have figured that I've earned that right, by now! You have to earn the right to be stupid."
"When people attempt to morph themselves into someone they are not as a way of conforming to their view of how they should be, they quell the very parts of themselves that makes them who they need to be. If we all fell under the category of normal, how would anyone ever succeed? We would all hover in the same place forever. No one would improve. Everyone would remain idle. We may even all begin to retrogress. I believe that part of being human is to have the ability to change and improve yourself. Be who you need to be, not who you think you should be."
"You're only as strong as your biggest weakness."
"Perhaps we are all shells; but some of us have found the pearls inside, and this makes all the difference!"
"It's like the day you realize dolls are dolls. I pick up my old self and I see it's silly. A toy I've played with too often. It's a little sad, like an old golliwog at the bottom of the cupboard. Innocent and used-up and proud and silly."
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"But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death."
"I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me - I wasn't neglected enough as a child."
"I don't even know what sound is, much less what it's for. It isn't to make money that's for sure. I've never made any."
"I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening."
"I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself."
"I don't look like a desert person because I stay indoors most of the day and fool around at night. That's what the desert animals do - they don't have a tan either."
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