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“I was raised in a strict fundamentalist household, and I always say that gives you a muscle of belief. I want to believe in something, but I don't believe in what my parents believed in. Poetry has taken the place, or I think the arts have taken the place, of religion in my life. I wanted to see how that was working out through the poems.”
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“Most complaints, you know, aren't won or lost on their own merits, but rather on larger issues--politics and the position of the planets.”
Source : Walter Wykes (2006). “Three Plays of the Absurd”, p.81, Lulu.com
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“It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.”
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“Anyone you give a ton of money to is going to go slightly crazy. I don't think comedians are particularly special in that regard; they just are better or more vocal in their expressions of their craziness.”
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“People are very protective of their cell phones, how it's used, where it's used and how much it costs. It has become a very personal issue for a whole lot of people in this country.”
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“I always knew I was a star And now, the rest of the world seems to agree with me.”
Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“God waits patiently for me to wake up, grow up, come to the awareness that great works take time, that nothing truly worthwhile can be rushed... How difficult it is not to interfere, to try to take over, to go it alone. But God cannot succeed without me. God needs my whole-hearted cooperation in this work.”
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“Sometimes I think no matter how one is born, no matter how one acts, there is something out of gear with one somewhere, and that must be changed. Life at its best is a grand corrective.”
Source : Jessie Redmon Fauset (1924). “There is Confusion”, p.267, UPNE