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• One night a father overheard his son pray: Dear God, make me the kind of man my Daddy is. Later that night, the father prayed, Dear God, make me the kind of man my son wants me to be.

  Unknown

  Father, Son, Night

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• Simply put, meta-writing is writing that is self-conscious, self-reflective, and aware of itself as an artifice. The writer is aware she's writing, and she's aware there's a reader, which goes all the way back to Montaigne's often-used address "dear reader," or his brief introduction to Essais: "To the Reader." It can be done in a myriad of ways.

  Jill Talbot

  Writing, Done, Introduction

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When the whistle blows each morning and I walk down in that cold, dark mine, say a prayer to my dear savior. Please let me see the sunshine one more time. When oh when will it be over? When will I lay these burdens down? And when I die, dear lord in heaven, please take my soul from 'neath that cold, dark ground.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Morning, Prayer, Sunshine

  "Dwight Yoakam Says New Album Was Inspired By Coal Mining And Mountain Music". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 6, 2016.

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• I prefer to not be feeling like I'm having to be fake about things that are the most dear to me in terms of writing, which is something related to my own, personal writing. I mean, I've done tons and tons of fake writing.

  Mandy Stadtmiller

  Writing, Mean, Fake

  Source: therumpus.net

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• North Shore Animal League America is so dear to my heart not only for the amazing people that work there, the innovative life-saving programs they have, and the mission to rescue, nurture, and adopt but also for the hard work and dedication this organization has to the cause. They have saved over one million lives since their inception, and they are the world's largest no-kill animal rescue and adoption organization.

  Beth Ostrosky Stern

  Hard Work, Heart, Dedication

  "Beth Stern: Speaking Up for Our Furry Friends". Interview with Barbi Twins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 9, 2014.

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• I started bettysbattle.org, which is a charity in honor of my mom, associated with the Muscular Dystrophy Association, a charity that is near and dear to my heart. We turned to them for resources and information. They were there for us every step of the way, from the day that Mom was diagnosed. I formed a charity in honor of my mom and them. I'm the national ALS ambassador for MDA. I do their telethon every year.

  Nancy O'Dell

  Mom, Heart, Years

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• And of course, FDR was very charming. At 6'2", he was tall enough to be her beau, and they made a beautiful couple. And she could encourage him. His mother also encouraged him. So this notion of a woman with ideas of her own and a spirit of her own and a style of her own was very congenial to Franklin. And he loved her. And their romance was a very dear and true and deep romance.

  Blanche Wiesen Cook

  Beautiful, Mother, Couple

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• A very dear friend of mine great actress named Wendy Rich Stetson was very active in the theater department at Amherst and I went to all the plays she was in, and it became very clear to me that what she was doing was something I wanted to be doing.

  John Cariani

  Play, Actresses, Rich

  "It's ALMOST, MAINE for John Cariani!!!". Interview with TJ Fitzgerald, www.broadwayworld.com. January 4, 2006.

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• What I ended up doing was kind of crafting an idea for a story, presenting it to a writer - a dear friend of mine, Brad Mirman - and he ended up writing a beautiful script. I should've done that a lot earlier.

  Kiefer Sutherland

  Beautiful, Writing, Ideas

  "Kiefer Sutherland on finally playing Donald's son and destroying the first '24' action figure". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. March 7, 2016.

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• All of the secrets the vampires held dear have been exposed, and the humans can now fight back as equals in a way, which is scary.

  Deborah Ann Woll

  Fighting, Scary, Secret

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• The role of the poet is almost nothing...drearily nothing. And when he steps outside of his boots and tries to get tough as our dear Ezra [Pound] did, he will get his pink little ass slapped.

  Charles Bukowski

  Trying, Steps, Roles

  Source: bukowski.net

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• John Farrar, my dear friend and songwriter/producer of most of my hits (he wrote "You're The One That I Want" and "Hopelessly Devoted to You," among others), wrote the song ["I Think You Might Like It"] and it captures so much fun and joy! Having that reunion as well, with John and John - made the project even more special!

  Olivia Newton-John

  Song, Fun, Thinking

  Source: www.mlive.com

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• All of the musical projects that I am involved with are near and dear to my heart and allow me in a small way to make a contribution to the world of music.

  Nathan East

  Heart, Musical, World

  "Daft Punk Bassist Nathan East: Music is His Mission". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• For me the most important issue is climate change because it in some ways trumps every other issue. Everything else we care about falls by the wayside if the Greenland ice shelf falls into the sea. And if suddenly sea levels rise 21 feet, everything we hold near and dear ceases to exist.

  Moby

  Fall, Sea, Feet

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• The very energy sources that have gotten us to where we are now are also, if we continue doing what we're doing, a shortcut to the end of all that we hold near and dear.

  Sylvia Earle

  Energy, Shortcuts, Ends

  "Her Majesty of the Deep Blue Sea: An Interview with Dr. Sylvia Earle, Part One". Interview with Dan Linehan, www.mission-blue.org. January 23, 2013.

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• I go to a hotel and try to get there by 5:30 in the morning. I keep a dictionary, a thesaurus, a bible, a deck of playing cards, a bottle of sherry, and stacks of yellow sticky pads. I shut myself in for six, seven hours. I have an arrangement with the hotel that no one may go in my room. After three or four months, they might slip notes under my door like, "Dear Ms. Angelou, please let us change the linens. We think they might be molding." It's probably true. I let them in if they promise not to touch anything other then the bed.

  Maya Angelou

  Morning, Thinking, Yellow

  Source: www.washingtoncitypaper.com

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• In terms of our democracy, we are sort of shrugging our shoulders and saying, oh dear, Guantánamo, that's so awful, that's so awful, but it's here. The pendulum usually swings from left to right and then right to left, but there are so many people in power who have taken the pendulum and just pinned it to the right that there is a fear that it's never going to swing back.

  Dar Williams

  Taken, Swings, People

  Source: progressive.org

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• Male say they're looking for a girl just like the girl who married dear old dad, but what they really want, and usually get, is an empty-headed little chick who's very young and very physical -and very submissive.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Girl, Dad, Males

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• America was the first country in history to be founded on, people have rights. Not the divine right of kings, not the emperor's a god, or idolized, or we have to do what the dear leader says. And, expressly, that it's a system of equal rights, and then governments are instituted to secure those rights.

  Charles Koch

  Country, Kings, Rights

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• What I'm thinking about are the millions of people, many of whom write me very personal letters :"Dear Mr. President: I did not vote for you. I was against Obamacare. And then my son who didn't have health insurance signed up and we just found out that he had an illness. And thankfully he's now covered, otherwise he might not have gotten treatment and I might have lost my house."

  Barack Obama

  Writing, Son, Thinking

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• The angels don't care what words you use. They appreciate the engraved, fancy prayers, but they say, "Just talk to us." You can use ordinary language - the language you use when you talk with your best friend - when you ask for help. If you want to reach out to the angels for something very personal for yourself, you can say, "Dear guardian angels and archangels, I ask that you come to me now and help me resolve this problem or issue." And then you just pour out your heart to the angels. You can do it silently in your mind. You can say it out loud. You can write it.

  Doreen Virtue

  Prayer, Angel, Writing

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• I have dear friends in South Carolina, folks who made my life there wonderful and meaningful. Two of my children were born there. South Carolina's governor awarded me the highest award for the arts in the state. I was inducted into the South Carolina Academy of Authors. I have lived and worked among the folks in Sumter, South Carolina, for so many years. South Carolina has been home, and to be honest, it was easier for me to define myself as a South Carolinian than even as an American.

  Kwame Dawes

  Meaningful, Art, Children

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The Bible did not arrive by fax from heaven. The Bible is the product of man, my dear. Not of God. The Bible did not fall magically from the clouds. Man created it as a historical record of tumultuous times, and it has evolved through countless translations, additions, and revisions. History has never had a definitive version of the book.

  Dan Brown

  Book, Fall, Men

  Dan Brown (2003). “The Da Vinci Code: A Novel”

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• My dear Tom, Delighted to get your letter. Do write again. This life is terrible and I don't understand how it can be endured.

  Samuel Beckett

  Writing, Letters, Life Is

  "Love, styes and stools" by Nicholas Lezard, www.theguardian.com. March 20, 2009.

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• In North Korea, we never learned to think critically. There is no concept of individualism. The government treated us as less valuable than animals. You can't even stay overnight at someone's house without permission from the police. My mother warned me not to say - or even think - anything bad about our "dear leader," Kim Jong Il, because "even the birds and mice can hear you whisper."

  Park Yeon-mi

  Mother, Animal, Thinking

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