"Experience burned into me the conviction that access to education ought to be based on how much you are willing to learn and how hard you are willing to work, not on how many dollars your family has in their bank account."

-- Dave Obey

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“Fondness for people can be terrifying, because it's intangible and it can disappear, or it can be taken away, or you can say the wrong thing. A million things, so it's so uncomfortable. So when you suddenly become aware of it because they don't call you or something for half an hour or whatever, you lose it.”

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“I've certainly been very blessed with opportunity.”
“I need to learn how to stop destroying myself, stop being hard on myself and be nice to myself. I need to keep telling myself that I need to keep wanting something, something nice, something warm[so] I can make other people happy. I can understand other people's pain because I can love even after all that is left of me is gone because I have that strength.”
“She wouldn't climb out of the bed for her sister, but she had climbed into a crater. She wouldn't cross a room, but she had crossed a continent.”
“I have had an inordinate and painful concern for the audience in my writing career.”
“You don't have to be brilliant at everything. You just have to have the courage to put yourself in the line of fire.”
“I do not consider myself beautiful.”
“Becoming well known (at least among your prospects & connections) is the most valuable element in the connection process.”

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