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“There are always moments of despair when you get close to jobs and lose them at the last second. It feels like getting punched in the stomach. You feel like, 'Why do I do this?' Then you go to bed, get up the next day and forget about it.”

Source : Interview with Zorianna Kit, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 21, 2010.
“If we live in our oneness-heart, we will feel the essence of all religions which is the love of God. Forgiveness, compassion, tolerance, brotherhood and the feeling of oneness are the signs of a true religion.”
“I only have one note, let's be honest. But I'll play a different version of that one note.”
“Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it.”
“During the long drag of years before our youngest child went to school, my love for my family and my need to write were in acute conflict. The problem was really that I put two things first. My husband and children came first. So did my writing. Bump.”
“It is probable that two proposed unknown rations are incommensurable because if many unknown rations are proposed it is most probable that any [one] would be incommensurable to any [other].”
“Carrying a loaded firearm is the gateway crime to committing a murder.”
“I have this blanket thing about giving parenting advice to parents, and that's: 'Don't take other people's advice on parenting.'”

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