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Once I was in a cafe in Portland and the woman at the next table and I began chatting and in the course of our conversation she strongly recommend I visit this web site called 'The Rumpus' so I could read this advice column called 'Dear Sugar.' It was so painful not to tell her that in fact I was Sugar, but I didn't. ↗

— Cheryl Strayed

#began #cafe #called #chatting #column

Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too. ↗

— Meryl Streep

#ask #believe #best #else #every

Every single decision I make about what material I do, what I'm putting out in the world, is because of my children. ↗

— Meryl Streep

#because #children #decision #every #i

I was a big comic book fan from 13 on. ↗

— Stephen Root

#book #comic #comic book #fan #i

The day of the wedding went like these things generally do, full of anxious moments interspersed with black comedy. ↗

— Janet Street-Porter

#black #black comedy #comedy #day #full

I think that the roots of racism have always been economic, and I think people are desperate and scared. And when you're desperate and scared you scapegoat people. It exacerbates latent tendencies toward - well, toward racism or homophobia or anti-Semitism. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#anti-semitism #been #desperate #economic #i

My knee is as strong as it was before, if not stronger, and it's a matter of getting my leg strong. I lost six years of strength in about six month's time, so it's going to take another year or two to get that leg back up to full strength, but I'm good to go so far. ↗

— Picabo Street

#another #back #back up #before #far

Perhaps they do not recognize themselves, for a rich man is even harder to define than a poor one. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#even #harder #man #perhaps #poor

I don't care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#care #i #just #just be #me

My biggest nightmare is I'm driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: 'Please help me.' And the people say: 'Hey, you look like...' And I'm dying while they're wondering whether I'm Barbra Streisand. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#barbra streisand #biggest #driving #dying #get