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The first think I did when I found out I was a finalist, was, I don't remember, because it felt like it was an out of body experience. ↗

— James Durbin

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If you're writing, you're starting in private. It can really be this amazing, private, freeing experience. Forget that it's for other people - that comes in later. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#comes #experience #forget #freeing #later

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#blindly #faith #follow

The joke I always make about myself is that I'm self-involved, but I'm not vain. ↗

— Lena Dunham

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The work that's interesting to me in other people is really confessional. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#me #other #people #really #work

As individuals, we are shaped by story from the time of birth; we are formed by what we are told by our parents, our teachers, our intimates. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#formed #individuals #intimates #our #parents

It's never crowded along the extra mile. ↗

— Wayne Dyer

#crowded #extra #extra mile #mile #never

When we see people that are impoverished and people who are dealt an unfair hand, then if we have the power to help them, we should try to do that. ↗

— John Legend

#hand #help #impoverished #people #power

I was always influenced by language. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#i #influenced #language

A poet's cultural baggage and erudition can interfere with a poem. ↗

— Douglas Dunn

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