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You don't want a whole bunch of yes people around you
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I love my work. What's more fun than playing with imagination? I also believe storytelling is the most powerful way people communicate with one another, interpret our lives, share our dreams, even form our futures. So when I sit down to write every day, I keep the fun, and also what I consider a large cultural project that connects people, at the center of what I'm doing.
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I've always liked what the Navajos say when they part. They never say 'Goodbye.' They say 'Go in beauty.'
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Catharsis isn’t a wound being excavated from childhood.
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I believe wealth should be in the hands of those who know how to create more wealth.
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There is, of course, no joy so great as the cessation of pain; in fact all joy, active or passive, is the cessation of some pain, since it must be the satisfaction of a longing, even perhaps an unconscious longing.
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I have no idea if world peace is attainable. But aiming for it is.
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Voter caging and voter ID laws exist to disfranchise voters.
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I've learnt that there's nothing in my day to day life or anything that I do that is in any way aimed at changing how I'm perceived or how I'm presented; it's completely impossible.
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To be taught to read—what is the use of that, if you know not whether what you read is false or true? To be taught to write or to speak—but what is the use of speaking, if you have nothing to say? To be taught to think—nay, what is the use of being able to think, if you have nothing to think of? But to be taught to see is to gain word and thought at once, and both true.
