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• Here I am in the garden laughing an old woman with heavy breasts and a nicely mapped face how did this happen well that's who I wanted to be at last a woman in the old style sitting stout thighs apart under a big skirt grandchild sliding on off my lap a pleasant summer perspiration that's my old man across the yard he's talking to the meter reader he's telling him the world's sad story how electricity is oil or uranium and so forth I tell my grandson run over to your grandpa ask him to sit beside me for a minute I am suddenly exhausted by my desire to kiss his sweet explaining lips.

  Grace Paley

  Summer, Running, Sweet

  Grace Paley (2016). “Begin Again: Poems by Gracey Paley”, p.199, Hachette UK

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• I've helped some of my classmates on how to strategize to get to the next level of their businesses. And it's interesting, because here I am sitting there from the entertainment industry and the fashion industry, and I'm giving a billionaire that has a business that's been in his family for 300 years - I'm giving him advice about strategy!

  Tyra Banks

  Fashion, Years, Giving

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• I exist, I am, I am here, I am becoming, I make my own life and no one else makes it for me. I must face my own shortcomings, mistakes, transgressions. No one can suffer my non-being as I do, but tomorrow is another day, and I must decide to leave my bed and live again. And if I fail, I don't have the comfort of blaming you or life or God.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Mistake, Suffering, Faces

  LEO BUSCAGLIA, PH.D. (1982). “LIVING, LOVING & LEARNING”

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• The Bible is clear here: I am to love my neighbor as myself, in the manner needed, in a practical way, in the midst of the fallen world, at my particular point of history. This is why I am not a pacifist. Pacifism in this poor world in which we live -- this lost world -- means that we desert the people who need our greatest help.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Mean, People, Fallen World

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• Yes, here I am returning, the woman who bore herself to the bottom and back. Who wanted to swim like dolphins, leaping waves and diving. Who wanted only to belong to herself.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Swim, Dolphins, Diving

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• Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.

  Jean Cocteau

  Teaching, Recovery, Addiction

  Arthur King Peters, Jean Cocteau, André Gide (1973). “Jean Cocteau and André Gide: An Abrasive Friendship”, New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press

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• Indie world won't have me, and mainstream world treats me like an alien, but here I am still floating between these two worlds.

  Billy Corgan

  Two, Floating, World

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• Here I am paying big money to you writers and what for? All you do is change the words.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Bigs

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• In this life struggle, here I am among you fully cognizant that a true believer has no fear of what God has ordained for him. Those who are visited by fear live only for their present, under the illusion that the world began with them and will end with their departure.

  King Hussein I

  Struggle, Departure, World

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• Here I am at the end of the road and at the top of the heap.

  Pope John XXIII

  Ends, End Of The Road

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• Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

  Helen Keller

  Friendship, Sweet, Book

  "The Story of My Life" by Helen Keller, (Ch. 21), 1903.

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• I am First Lady by accident. I was not elected by the people but here I am.

  Imelda Marcos

  People, Firsts, First Lady

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've never been someone who's been given work because of the way I look or because I have some box office appeal. I get work because people know I'm swinging as hard as I can, trying to connect, giving it my level best. I have a face for radio, but here I am doing what I do.

  John C. Reilly

  Office, People, Giving

  "Conquer Your Shortcomings". Interview with J. Rentilly, www.menshealth.com. December 15, 2011.

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• I think the thing about film is, as it gets proved by a lot of young filmmakers now, that the medium will just go on reinventing itself, and so you just hope to be a part of that and not a part of some kind of endless regurgitation or 'Here I am doing what you know I do' kind of thing.

  Alan Rickman

  Thinking, Goes On, Kind

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• Here I am, ninety years old and ready for the cooling board, using a brand new Macintosh computer, and there you sit, twenty-two and gorgeous, fresh as a new peach, yet scrawling on a yellow legal pad like an old maid in a Victorian romance.

  Stephen King

  Years, Two, Yellow

  Stephen King (2005). “The Colorado Kid”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• You are reading a bold and universal headline which says ,’I am here, I am here, I am here.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Reading, Headlines, Universal

  Kurt Vonnegut (2010). “Breakfast Of Champions”, p.226, Random House

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• Janey accuses me of chasing jailbait. She bursts into angry tears, asking if it's because she's getting older. It's true. She's aging more noticeably every day — while I am standing still. I prefer the stillness here. I am tired of Earth. These people. I am tired of being caught in the tangle of their lives.

  Alan Moore

  Tired, People, Getting Older

  "Fictional character: Dr. Manhattan". "Watchmen", www.imdb.com. 2009.

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• I believe that each work of art, whether it is a work of great genius, or something very small, comes to the artist and says, "Here I am. Enflesh me. Give birth to me."

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Art, Believe, Giving

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.18, Convergent Books

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• It’s dangerous to assume that because a person is drawn to holiness in his study that he is thereby a holy man. There is irony here. I am sure that the reason I have a deep hunger to learn of the holiness of God is precisely because I am not holy. I am a profane man—a man who spends more time out of the temple than in it. But I have had just enough of a taste of the majesty of God to want more. I know what it means to be a forgiven man and what it means to be sent on a mission. My soul cries for more. My soul needs more.

  R. C. Sproul

  Mean, Men, Soul

  R. C. Sproul (2013). “The Holiness of God”, p.33, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• I think the most important thing about playing is to walk out with confidence, look the people right in the eye and say 'Here I am,' and go and do your thing. As soon as they know you're confident, they're confident. As long as you adjust to them you're not in trouble. You should eyeball them, find out what they want, and give it to them. They didn't pay to come out and look at the tapestries.

  Les Paul

  Eye, Thinking, Long

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• It's been a hard time to celebrate, to come out with a smile. But I'm an American. Naomi asked me to come out to support other Americans, and here I am.

  Angie Everhart

  Smile, Hard Times, Hymns

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• I feel kind of like the black sheep in Congress, but here I am.

  Sonny Bono

  Sheep, Black, Kind

  "Sonny Bono Killed In Skiing Accident", www.cnn.com. January 6, 1998.

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• It said to me, 'I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.'

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Said, Eternal Life, Mans Search For Meaning

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.58, Beacon Press

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• Damn flowers. Nice kids, the ones who skated out and gave us them. But the flowers, the stem fell off. I stepped right on it and was on my ass in a flash. Must have looked good, huh? A hundred million guys watching all around the world, brass bands playing, the Russian cats in the stands, and here I am dumped on the ice. So I waved to the folks back home inthe Soo, a wave from the dummy with egg on his face.

  Phil Esposito

  Nice, Flower, Home

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• I had acne late, in college. My skin used to be really flawless. Went to college, became a vegetarian, ate a lot of cheese - big mistake. Here I am trying to be healthy and I'm eating grilled cheese sandwiches and French fries every day, having mad eruptions all over my face.

  Wesley Snipes

  Mistake, College, Cheese Sandwiches

  "Wesley Snipes: The Wisdom of Wesley". Interview with Lawrence Grobel, movieline.com. August 1, 1998.

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