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No matter how close to personal experience a story might be, inevi

No matter how close to personal experience a story might be, inevitably you are going to get to a part that isnt yours and, actually, whether it happened or not becomes irrelevant. It is all about choosing the right words. – Roddy Doyle

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When I started writing full time I had not long stopped being a teacher and when at last I had a full day to write, I would put music on and wonder to myself – am I allowed to do this? Then I thought: I am control of this and no one is telling me what I can do. – Roddy Doyle

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Schools dont really allow failure and yet its a valid part of any endeavour, not just writing. – Roddy Doyle

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What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else. – Joseph Campbell

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I learned more about economics from one South Dakota dust storm than I did in all my years in college. – Hubert Humphrey, speech, 1960

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The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing. – Richard Wright

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Ive had a lot of experience in independent film, and about how to choose. Youve got to be very discerning about where you put your five bucks, and where you cut and what you dont cut. – Ethan Hawke

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If you really want something you just hang with it. We think our futures ahead and not behind. – Jerry Only

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Being a great father is like shaving. No matter how good you shaved today, you have to do it again tomorrow. – Reed Markham

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When I was growing up, it was Communists. Now its Terrorists. So you always have to have somebody to fight and be afraid of, so the war machine can build more bombs, guns, and bullets and everything. – Cindy Sheehan

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For any of us in this room today, lets start out by admitting were lucky. We dont live in the world our mothers lived in, our grandmothers lived in, where career choices for women were so limited. – Sheryl Sandberg

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