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• I know I can do it," Todd Downey said, helping himself to another ear of corn from the steaming bowl. "I'm sure that in time her death will be a mystery, even to me.

  Stephen King

  Ears, Corn, Helping

  Stephen King (2016). “Four Past Midnight”, p.316, Simon and Schuster

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• Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Positive, Strength, Inspiring

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “The Essential Gandhi: His Life, Work, and Ideas : an Anthology”, Vintage

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• Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you. And you know I can do it; I saw Indians smash my dear parents' heads on the pillow next to mine, and I have seen some reddish work done at night, and I can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down! - Abigail

  Arthur Miller

  Night, Parent, Crucible

  Arthur Miller (1957). “Arthur Miller's collected plays: with an introduction”, Viking Pr

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• Whenever there is a big game and people don't think I can do it, I always play my hardest, and now it has become a part of me.

  Dwyane Wade

  Thinking, Games, Play

  The IGN Interview, www.ign.com. August 26, 2005.

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• I don't have to put out another rap record. I can do it at my casual pace.

  Ice T

  Rap, Pace, Records

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• I'm very organized and tidy in my home life and I generally do something myself rather than farm it out to somebody else. I don't have an assistant or anything because I think I can do it myself.

  Mark Strong

  Home, Thinking, Assistants

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• Follow your passion. The rest will attend to itself. If I can do it, anybody can do it. It's possible. And it's your turn. So go for it. It's never too late to become what you always wanted to be in the first place.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Passion, Too Late, Firsts

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• My dad's great. He's my biggest supporter. He's always told me that whatever I choose to do, I can do it. I just gotta put my mind to it.

  Apolo Ohno

  Dad, Mind, Supporter

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• It's sad when you can't make everyone happy, though. It's impossible but, at the same time, you still hope. You think, 'Maybe I can do it,' but you know you can't. But gosh, if I had to rely on giving people what they wanted, I would have had to write 40 billion different books and even then, I wouldn't get it right.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• I can do more than just stand-up comedy, and the only way I'll be able to show that is if I do it myself. Because nobody trusts that I can do it.

  Dane Cook

  Able, Way, Comedy

  "Dane Cook Knows Earl's Dirty Little Secret in Mr. Brooks!". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. May 24, 2007.

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• Ever bike? Now that's something that makes life worth living!... Oh, to just grip your handlebars and lay down to it, and go ripping and tearing through streets and road, over railroad tracks and bridges, threading crowds, avoiding collisions, at twenty miles or more an hour, and wondering all the time when you're going to smash up. Well, now, that's something! And then go home again after three hours of it... and then to think that tomorrow I can do it all over again!

  Jack London

  Sports, Home, Thinking

  "The Letters of Jack London: 1913-1916". Stanford University Press. Volume three, 1988.

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• I lost you once, I think I can do it again.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Notebook, Thinking, Movie Love

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• Am I just chasing it because it's the hardest thing for me to get and I want to prove I can do it?

  Tina Fey

  Want, Chasing, Hardest

  "Confessions of a Juggler" by Tina Fey, www.newyorker.com. February 14 & 21, 2011.

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• There's so much I wish for these days, but most of all, I wish you were here. It's strange, but before I met you, I couldn't remember the last time that I cried. Now, it seems that tears come easily to me...but you have a way of making my sorrows seem worthwhile, of explaining things in a way that lessens my ache. You are a treasure, a gift, and when we're together again, I intend to hold you until my arms are weak and I can do it no longer. My thoughts of you are sometimes the only things that keep me going.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Together Again, Sorrow, Wish

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• I even move out onto the front porch and see my own limited view of the world. I want to take that world, and for the first time ever, I feel like I can do it. I’ve survived everything I’ve had to so far. I’m still standing here.

  Markus Zusak

  Moving, Views, World

  Markus Zusak (2007). “I Am the Messenger”, p.124, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I've done it all before, I tell myself, and I can do it again. Trust is the strongest weapon.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Done, Weapons, Strongest

  Lauren DeStefano (2012). “Fever”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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• I can hurt myself more than anyone else can, she told her sister. I can do it with my eyes closed.

  Alice Hoffman

  Hurt, Eye, Can Do

  Alice Hoffman (2009). “The Story Sisters: A Novel”, p.76, Broadway Books

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• I just thought you'd like to know I can read. You got anything needs readin' I can do it.

  Harper Lee

  Needs, Knows, I Can Read

  Harper Lee (2014). “To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• Sam gave Captain Suicide a droll stare. "How did you die again? Oh wait, I know this. 'I can take 'em. I don't need to wait for reinforcements. I can do it myself.' How'd that work out for you again?

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Suicide, Work Out, Waiting

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “No Mercy”, p.327, Macmillan

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• You know, there's a 12 step program for gambling. You should look into that. Twelve steps. Coyote laughed. I'll bet I can do it in six.

  Christopher Moore

  Gambling, Six, Steps

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• I sit and feel lonely. Sitting and feeling lonely is something I am a spectacular success at. I can do it for hours. Everyone is good at something.

  Martin Millar

  Lonely, Feelings, Sitting

  Martin Millar (2009). “Ruby and the Stone Age Diet”, p.39, Soft Skull Press

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• So, it's not gonna be easy. It's gonna be really hard. We're gonna have to work at this every day, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, you and me, every day. Will you do something for me, please? Just picture your life for me? Thirty years from now, forty years from now? What's it look like? If it's with him- go. Go! I lost you once, I think I can do it again, if I thought that's what you really wanted. But don't you take the easy way out.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Notebook, Thinking, Years

  "The Notebook". www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• If I decided I'm the girl to change the world, I can do it anytime.

  Demi Lovato

  Girl, World, Decided

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• Livin' is like pourin' water out of a tumbler into a dang Coca-Cola bottle. If'n you skeered you can't do it, you cain't. If'n you say to yourself, "By dang, I can do it!" then, by dang, you won't slosh a drop.

  Olive Ann Burns

  Water, Bottles, Cain

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• I’m tenacious, I think – I know – and I do also have a quality where if you tell me I can’t do something, if I know I can’t do it I’m the first to raise my hand and say, “I can’t do that.” But there is a big Bronx, New York Jew in me that just says, “Really? Really? You think I – yes, I can. I can do it. I can do it.

  Ellen Barkin

  New York, Thinking, Hands

  "Actress-producer Ellen Barkin". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. November 14, 2011.

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