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• In my version of paradise, the air was always cold and the rivers ran with candy.

  Amanda Lindhout

  Air, Rivers, Paradise

  Amanda Lindhout, Sara Corbett (2013). “A House in the Sky”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

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• You are going to feel like hell if you never write the stuff that is tugging on the sleeves in your heart--your stories, visions, memories, songs: your truth, your version of things, in your voice. That is really all you have to offer us, and it's why you were born.

  Anne Lamott

  Song, Memories, Writing

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• Maybe other people are like mirrors that we see ourselves in; versions of ourselves that vary dramatically depending on the particular cut of glass.

  Jonathan Hull

  Cutting, Glasses, Mirrors

  Jonathan Hull (2001). “Losing Julia”, Island Books

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• In the end, science offers us the only way out of politics. And if we allow science to become politicized, then we are lost. We will enter the Internet version of the dark ages, an era of shifting fears and wild prejudices, transmitted to people who don't know any better.

  Michael Crichton

  Dark, People, Age

  Remarks to the Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, www.cs.cmu.edu. September 15, 2003.

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• I'm accepting I'm not living that younger, dreamed version of myself in the big city.

  Paula Cole

  Cities, Accepting, Bigs

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• A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Jobs, Children, Inexperience

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• Then, in 2000, John Reid, Elton John's former manager, asked me to audition for the stage version of The Graduate he was producing. So I worked on it, got the part, and after three weeks' rehearsal I was on stage!

  Jerry Hall

  Three, Rehearsal, Auditions

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• All novelists write in a different way, but I always write in longhand and then do two versions of typescript on a computer.

  Martin Amis

  Writing, Two, Novelists

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• There are some decision-makers in the world whose version of sanity is a little different from what I consider the right one.

  Bruce Cockburn

  Decision, Different, World

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Japan is, you often feel, an improved version of the United States.

  George Mikes

  Funny, Humorous, Japan

  George Mikes (1970). “The land of the rising yen: Japan”, Harvard Common Press

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• Here's a slightly outrageous tip: Don't respect the text. Just because you've written something down doesn't mean it has a right to exist. If your internal editor can find a better way to say something, junk the original version and go with the new one. If you can't find a better way, and the passage really isn't good, junk it.

  Crawford Kilian

  Writing, Mean, Editors

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• I stand before you a weekend version of your reflection begging for direction, for my soul needs resurrection.

  DMX

  Friendship, Reflection, Weekend

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• I'm now an agnostic but I grew up on the King James version, which I'm eternally grateful for.

  Penelope Lively

  Kings, Grateful, Agnostic

  "I'm not a historian but I can get obsessively interested in the past'". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2001.

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• Companies in Europe should stop trying to do the U.S. version of a European idea.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Europe, Ideas, Trying

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• Ireland has made its choice for the future and it has chosen the version of Irishness it will build. I know, and I will work with head and heart to be part of it with all of you in creating that future one in which all of us can be part of and part of us too.

  Michael D. Higgins

  Heart, Creating, Choices

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

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• I want to be the best version of myself - intellectually, emotionally, and physically. So I like to wear clothes that I feel comfortable in, that reflect that.

  Gabrielle Anwar

  Clothes, Want, Being The Best

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• When Philip Glass asked me if I would be interested in doing a new recording of Jesus' Blood he assumed that I would do something similar to the first version and wanted to know what other pieces would be on the same CD.

  Gavin Bryars

  Jesus, Glasses, Blood

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• How many of the original songs survive intact from the slave cabins? Probably not many in their original form. Time has transformed them like light in a prism. What we hope to present is a version of those spirituals, and they speak not just to black Americans, but to people worldwide.

  Kathleen Battle

  Song, Light, People

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• My goal is to help women to become the best version of themselves.

  Tom Ford

  Goal, Helping

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• I came up with my own 'Dream Shake' I guess - the white version.

  Dirk Nowitzki

  Dream, White, Shakes

  "Dirk Now Highest-Scoring Player Not From U.S". dfw.cbslocal.com. November 12, 2014.

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• The world is a dysfunctional place in so many ways. It is unstable. So even though that chaos can be reflected in our own homes, I suppose we have to fight that by creating our own versions of safety, which can also turn into ignoring the state of the world.

  Jennifer Gilmore

  Home, Fighting, Creating

  Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. March 8, 2011.

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• If I took over the 'Glamour' offices for a day, I would put Joe Pesci on the cover. I would say 'We've got to change all these magazines a little bit. We have to bring out a different version of what is, like, cool. You know, what's winning. Joe Pesci, Burt Reynolds.

  Jake M. Johnson

  Winning, Office, Different

  "OMG, You Have to Take 5 Minutes to Read Our Hilarious Interview With New Girl's Jake Johnson!". Interview with Anna Moeslein, www.glamour.com. June 11, 2012.

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• Attempting to do anything you haven't done before is always uncomfortable, and usually scary, but it is ALWAYS worth it. Fear disappears in the midst of action, and a better version of yourself awaits you on the other side of your fear. Feel the fear, and do it anyway.

  Hal Elrod

  Gratitude, Scary, Sides

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Aug 24, 2011

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• This drive to always want more is based on the misconceptions that having more will make me more happy, more important, and more secure, but all three ideas are untrue. Possessions only provide temporary happiness. Because things do not change, we eventually become bored with them and then want newer, bigger, better versions.

  Rick Warren

  Ideas, Bored, Important

  Rick Warren (2012). “The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?”, p.27, Zondervan

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• The very best parts of me go into my writing, it is the best version of myself, and I don't think it's hubristic to believe that that's worth something, worth someone else's time. It's the most I have to offer the world.

  Jami Attenberg

  Believe, Writing, Thinking

  "'Morrissey's hair, bongs made of apples, MTV's 120 Minutes': Inside this month's hottest new books". Interview with Teddy Wayne, www.salon.com. May 20, 2015.

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