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“There is no disappointment so numbing...as someone no better than you achieving more.”
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“Often, little brother, there is no smoke without fire.”
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“I'm so fortunate in that I've never had another job to pay a bill but acting, since the day I got out of high school.”
Source : "Amy Ryan" with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. February 21, 2008. 
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“I live my life in a way that I feel completely comfortable with. I don't struggle with who I am, who I date, who I love, what I say or what I stand for, not just sexuality but everything.”
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“You're a dancer; don't strain, don't force it. Be one with the hurdle, let it happen, relax while running fast.”
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“The essence of Vedanta is that there is but one Being and that every soul is that Being in full, not a part of that Being.”
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“I always have on my headphones to block out all of the other distractions and I'm just focused on doing the best that I can.... There a few of them ... DMX Party Up ... Mack 10 BC and Ice Cube Connected for Life. I also listen to the Eminem CD ...whichever song really gets me going that night”
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“And hate the bright stillness of the noon without wind, without motion. the only other living thing a hawk, hungry for prey, suspended in the blinding, sunlit blue. And yet how gentle it seems to someone raised in a landscape short of rain- the skyline of a hill broken by no more trees than one can count, the grass, the empty sky, the wish for water.”
Source : Dana Gioia (2016). “99 Poems: New & Selected”, p.35, Macmillan
