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" I say, 'Be brave. Do it even if your ankles shake, because they will.' "

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" I think gay marriage should be the national law. "

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Critical Thinking

" I have great luck. I'm used to people dying and going away. Not used to it exactly - but I expect it. Like, whenever people go off on a trip, I save their phone messages because I think they might die. "

" I realized a career is built as much on what you don't do as what you do do. "

" I don't care what people say! Please get that straight. I really don't. Because I can't. "

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" There have been a lot of murders and suicides in my family; it's like the primary cause of death. I wonder if there's a certain energy that attracts that. "