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The fact that I am a writer comes from the experience of being cut away from my roots and living in Venezuela, where I couldn't find a place for myself, for years and years. ↗

— Isabel Allende

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I finally decided if I was going to make a living, I was gonna have to come to New York. ↗

— Mose Allison

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All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self; it shows the social uses made of this knowledge. ↗

— James M. Baldwin

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Opportunities present themselves to me. That's how my whole life has been pretty much. I've been lucky. ↗

— Lizz Winstead

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Writing is my job. I don't think of it as art. ↗

— Isabel Allende

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I believe that behind both the person who weighs 400 pounds and the one who weighs 85 there is a lot of baggage, and it has nothing to do with their bodies. ↗

— Kirstie Alley

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I couldn't care less about sex unless I meet someone who I think is wonderful. ↗

— Kirstie Alley

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I never did go back to acting class. I was too busy working. ↗

— Kirstie Alley

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I ended the war a horse ahead. ↗

— Nathan Bedford Forrest

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Indians have a big problem with alcohol and drugs. I grew up with an admiration for their culture and was sensitive to their problems. ↗

— Kirstie Alley

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