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The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have. ↗

— Woody Allen

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I was not supposed to be in any way a liberated person. I was a female born in the '40s in a patriarchal family; I was supposed to marry and make everyone around me happy. ↗

— Isabel Allende

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When I see someone who is starved, they don't look alert. They don't have boundless energy. If you're too skinny, it looks like you're near death. ↗

— Kirstie Alley

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For the most part, pianos are female to me. Sometimes they're dykes, and they're always good fun. ↗

— Tori Amos

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Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale. ↗

— Hans Christian Andersen

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Qualified software engineers, managers, marketers and salespeople in Silicon Valley can rack up dozens of high-paying, high-upside job offers any time they want, while national unemployment and underemployment is sky high. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

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The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance. ↗

— Maya Angelou

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Sometimes you're trapped in writing songs and you don't have enough distance from what you do anymore and you need the talent and the years of other people to come and jump in. ↗

— Keren Ann

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I maintain an ongoing survey of Internet Publishing and self publishing, so that it is now possible for any writer with a book to get it published at nominal cost or free, and to have it on sale at booksellers like Amazon.com. ↗

— Piers Anthony

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Keep writing, because not only does practice improve skill, it gives you more chances to score on the market. I did that for eight years before making my first sale. ↗

— Piers Anthony

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