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"The burdens I carry on my back are in direct correlation to the weight of my ego."
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"We can fill our lives with 'stuff,' but as we do we're concurrently filling our lives with the obligation to maintain that 'stuff."
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Personal Development
"Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden."
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Personal Development
"The burden which is well borne becomes light."
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Personal Development
"Your burdens and pains will only be lightened by living ever so fully."
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"The thing that I'm most likely to collapse under is not the weight of the stresses that stand around me, but the ego that sits within me."
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"There I was limited to what happened the same way I am with Riel. It doesn't feel like a great burden to have your story, to some degree, set. I am enjoying figuring out what I think is the most dramatic way of telling this set of historical facts."
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"We finally sat down and asked ourselves how much of our lives we wanted to give everybody. We had just given a little too much, and it started to become a burden."
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"We must have a relentless commitment to producing a meaningful, comprehensive energy package aimed at conservation, alleviating the burden of energy prices on consumers, decreasing our country's dependency on foreign oil, and increasing electricity grid reliability."
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Personal Development
"The yoke you wear determines the burden you bear."
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"I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water."
Pain
"You can get sucked into the idea that, 'Gosh, this is impressive. Maybe I should do this. It will look good.' Or 'I'll write like this because it will impress that critic.'"
Creativity
"Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden."
Burden
"I would still like to have that luxury, to be able to just sit and draw for hours and hours and hours. In a way, that's what I do as a writer."
Writing
"God, life changes faster than you think."
Life
"I have a writer's memory which makes everything worse than maybe it actually was."
Memory
"I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house."
Family
"My parents told me I would become a doctor and then in my spare time I would become a concert pianist. So, both my day job and my spare time were sort of taken care of."
Time
"In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you."
Immigration
"Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power."
Power
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