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" Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories. "

Thomas Jefferson

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" If it's just me on stage telling stories for, like, an hour, that's great. That's fine. But like a sandcastle on the beach, it gets washed away at night. It's so much more powerful if we can all share our narratives and doorstep moments and make us feel a little less alone. I'm just trying to use social media and new media as a way to capture that. "

" When everything is lonely I can be my best friend. "

" I'm open, and I'm out there, but I also enjoy being alone, relaxing. "

" You know, one of my fears about living alone so long is that you get used to doing everything your own way. "

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" It's better to be healthy alone than sick with someone else. "

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" A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free. "

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" It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read. "

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" I'm an only child, and in college, I was given a single, and then I lived with people for, like, two years but were my best friends, and we had a really fun time. And then I lived alone or with a boyfriend. I've never really had a bad roommate situation. "

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" I like writing for movies. It's nice to be alone working on fiction in your room, and then it's nice to be in a room with a bunch of people working on a movie. "

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