My brother is really, really slow.

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People aren't really afraid of my views. They are just afraid of the word 'nationalism.' -Alexei Navalny

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Hemingway was a jerk. - Harold Robbins

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In order to be really good as a librarian, everything counts towards your work, every play you go see, every concert you hear, every trip you take, everything you read, everything you know. I don’t know of another occupation like that. The more you know, the better you’re going to be. ― Allen Smith

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Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. — Oprah Winfrey

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The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams. - Oprah Winfrey

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One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing, is what we do for others. — Lewis Carroll

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I can't even say I made my own mistakes. Really - one has to ask oneself - what dignity is there in that?

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The first writer that I think of immediately that I studied with at Michigan is Peter Ho Davies. He was really important to me, tackling that first novel. Just writing it. - Jesmyn Ward

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I met Elijah Wood once, I met Peter Jackson, I met Orlando Bloom, and they're all really cool. - Daniel Radcliffe

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