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“Being part of a community of writers is huge. I really think that's why people go to MFA programs.”
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“Go big, or go home. Otherwise, you’re wasting your youth.”
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“It sucks the way the world works. You can do a hundred things for people, but you do one bad mistake and everyone crucifies you and that's all they want to remember.”
Source : "Arenas opens up after lengthy hiatus from league, media". Interview with Sam Amick, www.si.com. February 20, 2012. 
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“The technical term for phytonutrients is polyphenols. They are substances produced by plants, a lot of them for self-defense. Twenty-five thousand different ones have been identified. Vitamins E, C, and beta-carotene are examples. Many of them are potent antioxidants, while some don't have antioxidant activity but boost our own antioxidant defense system. Others are involved in communication between cells, many affect gene expression, and others have detoxifying functions.”
Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
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“If you tell certain people that you like Kerouac, they assume that's all you read, like you don't know anything else about literature. I recognize all the things that people dislike about the way he writes - his tone and the sentimentality of it all. But those books were there for me at a very important point in my life.”
Source : "The Meaning of Life" by Ben Gibbard, www.pastemagazine.com. April 10, 2008.
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“Here's what I tell people now when they come to my shows: 'First of all, thank you for stimulating the economy, or at least my economic package.'”
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“I realize that the majority of people in the entertainment business happen to be Democrats. I have no problem with that. And they should have no problem with the fact that I'm a Republican.”
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“That was never a penalty in a million planets.”
Source : "Saturday Sundae". www.theguardian.com. August 27, 2011.
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“I grew up in Plano, Texas.”
Source : Interview with Emily Poenisch, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 30, 2008.
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“To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin.”
