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• I kind of got my big break with 'The Princess Diaries' and during the press rounds for that everyone asked me: 'Did you always want to be a princess growing up?' And the truth was, no I wanted to be Catwoman.

  Anne Hathaway

  Growing Up, Princess, Want

  "Anne Hathaway Talks Fighting in Heels, Adapting to Nolan’s Universe, Filming in IMAX and More on the Set of The Dark Knight Rises". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. May 27, 2012.

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• I don't keep a diary and I throw away nearly all the paper I might have kept. I don't keep an archive. There's something worrying about my make-up that I try to leave no trace of myself apart from my plays.

  Tom Stoppard

  Play, Worry, Trying

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• What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Important, Odd Things, Odd

  Simone de Beauvoir (1969). “The Woman Destroyed”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• You are fiercely heterosexual and well-formed, and it's no one's business that you've shrunk your parents and keep them in a terranium, but you have a gatling gun for a mouth, and if that's a diary you're producing from your cleavage, I'm leaving.

  Mark Leyner

  Gun, Parent, Leaving

  Mark Leyner (2012). “I Smell Esther Williams”, p.36, Vintage

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• First of all, let me get this straight: This is a JOURNAL, not a diary. I know what it says on the cover, but when Mom went out to buy this thing I SPECIFICALLY told her to get one that didn't say 'diary' on it.

  Jeff Kinney

  Mom, Firsts, Let Me

  Jeff Kinney (2012). “Diary Of A Wimpy Kid”, p.8, Penguin UK

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• Much of her life had been lived like a balancing act on a spearpoint fence, and on a particularly difficult night when she was twelve, she had decided that instinct was, in fact, the quiet voice of God. Prayers did receive replies, but you had to listen closely and believe in the answer. At twelve, she wrote in her diary: "God doesn't shout; He whispers, and in the whisper is the way.

  Dean Koontz

  Prayer, Believe, Night

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Intensity: A Novel”, p.74, Bantam

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• The next thing Jordana says makes me realize that it's too late to save her. "I've noticed that when you light a match, the flame is the same shape as a falling tear." She's been sensitized, turned gooey in the middle. I saw it happening and I didn't do anything to stop it. From now on, she'll be writing diaries and sometimes including little poems and she'll buy gifts for her favourite teachers and she'll admire the scenery and she'll watch the news and she'll buy soup for homeless people and she'll never burn my leg hair again.

  Joe Dunthorne

  Teacher, Fall, Writing

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• Jonah spoke what everyone was thinking. "Wouldn't it be Twilight Zone if the door was open, too?" Hamilton tried the knob. It didn't budge. Ian stepped forward and examined the lock. "Natalie's diary has better security than this." He produced a credit card and slipped it between the latch and the jamb. There was a click, and the door swung wide.

  Gordon Korman

  Twilight, Thinking, Doors

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• Please read my diary, look through my things and figure me out.

  Kurt Cobain

  Looks, Figures, Please

  "Prose and cons" by Steven Poole, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2003.

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• People who are busy and happy don't write diaries; they are too busy living.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Writing, People, Busy

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• I’m conflicted. On one hand, I want to stay in and catch up on The Vampire Diaries, but there’s this really awesome restaurant I’ve been wanting to try out.

  Jessica Sorensen

  Hands, Vampire, Trying

  Jessica Sorensen (2013). “The Coincidence of Callie and Kayden”, p.19, Hachette UK

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• I will write myself into well-being.

  Nancy Mairs

  Writing, Well Being, Wells

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• There's something about a blank page that makes me tingle.

  Nikki Grimes

  Pages, Blank, Journal

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• Fundamentally, diaries are about loneliness.

  Kenneth Williams

  Loneliness, Journal

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• If you want to write for yourself, get a diary. If you want to write for your friends, get a blog. If you want to write for others...become an author.

  James Patterson

  Writing, Want, Blogs

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• Listening to my songs is like reading my diary.

  Taylor Swift

  Song, Reading, Listening

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• I really love "Bridget Jones's Diary" - and I love the book, too. You wonder how it ever got made into a movie. She's supposed to be chubby, and two of the hottest guys ever are straight-up fighting over her?

  Mindy Kaling

  Book, Fighting, Two

  "The Exchange: Mindy Kaling". Interview withy Kate Bittman, www.newyorker.com. October 14, 2011.

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• Writing a diary every evening before going to bed is a good habit. We can record in the diary how much time we have devoted to our spiritual practice. The diary should be written in a way that helps us see our mistakes and correct them. It should not be a mere document of other peoples' faults or our daily transactions.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Mistake, Writing

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• The language of Doctor Johnson and Mrs Hester Lynch Thrale, and that of their adult contemporaries, was the stately language of the time, polished, stylish, unordinary, even in the intimate pages of their diaries, and the regime of instruction was severe and practical.

  Robert Burchfield

  Doctors, Adults, Pages

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• I feel like my songs are like diary entries for me. So I usually write about things that have happened to me specifically or sometimes it can be someone who's close to me.

  Sara Bareilles

  Song, Writing, Sometimes

  "Sara Bareilles' New Album!". Interview with Neha Gandhi, www.seventeen.com. June 8, 2010.

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• I've always loved to write, and I kept a diary of what I thought about my business, being an entrepreneur and other things of interest to me.

  Ben Casnocha

  Writing, Entrepreneur, Interest

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• Until I read Anne Frank's diary, I had found books a literal escape from what could be the harsh reality around me. After I read the diary, I had a fresh way of viewing the both literature and the world. From then on, I found I was impatient with books that were not honest or that were trivial and frivolous.

  Alexandra Fuller

  Book, Reality, Literature

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• I've kept a diary since I was 11.

  Evelyn Glennie

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• Dates in Calendar are Closer Than They Appear! Time is what keeps everything from happening at once. Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you.

  Mae West

  Time, Calendars, Someday

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• Anybody who writes a diary insists it must be read by someone else.

  Peter Greenaway

  Writing

  " Peter Greenaway's pact with death" by Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2010.

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