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You see, anything I imagined, I could draw.
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You do not have to die to save their lives.
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You don't have to die in order to make a living!
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Funny
Inspiring
Money
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Memories and magic is what Christmas is all about.
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Christmas
Smile
Magic
Memories
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I'm not just buying a car... I'm buying a lifestyle!
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Car
Buying
Buying A Car
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The most profound statements are often said in silence.
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Inspirational
Profound
Said
Silence
Statements
Often
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Every time I "get with the program"... somebody changes the channel.
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I was just so lucky to have a wonderful life after a tough marriage.
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Lucky
Tough
Wonderful
Wonderful Life
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An apology is the superglue of life. It can repair just about anything.
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Apology
I Am Sorry
Im Sorry
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No matter how old you are, there's always something good to look forward to.
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Happiness
Age
Matter
Good Look Always
Something Good
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Only a couple of times have I ever been to church and felt enlightened by it.
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Church
Couple
Enlightened
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Mom and Dad would stay in bed on Sunday morning, but the kids would have to go to church.
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Inspiring
Parenting
Mom
Bed
Mom And Dad
Stay Strong
Sunday
Sunday Morning
Mom Morning Dad
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I know it sounds crazy, but I have had far more connection with my parents after their deaths.
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Crazy
Parent
Sound
Connection
Deaths
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But I married a guy who treated me very badly, but I was happy. I was miserable, so I was happy.
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Guy
Married
Miserable
Badly
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My mother was a very literate person who had educated herself. She had an exceptional vocabulary.
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Educated
Exceptional
Mother
Vocabulary
Herself
Literate
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Complaining is good for you as long as you're not complaining to the person you're complaining about.
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Complaining
Long
Persons
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Not being able to sleep is terrible. You have the misery of having partied all night... Without the satisfaction.
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Insomnia
Night
Sleep
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You have to be in love with your story ... It's the love of the light; the time of day; of watching the moment unravel.
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Light
Love You
Stories
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I had a terrible marriage the first time around because I had no self-confidence, even though I had tremendous self-confidence.
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First Time
Firsts
Self Confidence
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Never tell anyone that you're writing a book, going on a diet, exercising, taking a course, or quitting smoking. They'll encourage you to death.
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Book
Exercise
Writing
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People never knew we were poor, but out of that poverty came the most incredible inventions - board games, recipes... we never stopped inventing.
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Inventing
Poverty
Recipes
Board
People Poor Poverty
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I've always felt that life is a novel, and part of it is written for you, and part of it is written by you. It's up to you to write the ending, ultimately.
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Life Is
Up To You
Writing
Ending
Life Is A
Ultimately
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Its taken me a long time to become the person I am, for all the ugliness to fall away. The rotten flesh is gone, and the seed is there. I can touch that now.
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Fall
Long
Taken
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It's taken me a long time to become the person I am, for all the ugliness to fall away. The rotten flesh is gone, and the seed is there. I can touch that now.
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Flesh
Rotten
Ugliness
Time I Am Me
Touch
Time Long Me
Seed
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I often think you bring unhappiness on yourself, because if you don't like yourself very much, you allow yourself to be influenced by people who reinforce that.
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People
Thinking
Unhappiness
Yourself People Who
Allow
Influenced
Reinforce
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I loved the Little Lulu stories, where she would fantasize that her bedroom rug would turn into a pool of water, and she could dive down into the center of the world.
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Bedroom
Pool
Center
Dive
Fantasize
Rug
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The toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's like asking runners how they run, or singers how they sing. They just do it!
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Running
Ideas
Singers
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When you're shy, a camera becomes an entry into life. It was a kind of shield I could hide my shyness behind, and it allowed me to become an active observer rather than a passive one.
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Cameras
Photography
Shields
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Sure, I've had some bad times, but everybody does. But people don't get to talk about them like I do, unless they do to a therapist. People don't get to put them in the paper like I do.
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Bad Times
Doe
Paper
People
People Bad Talk
Therapist
Unless
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You think about child abuse and you think of a father viciously attacking a daughter or a son, but in my family it was my mother. My mother, I would say, was a... very brutal disciplinarian.
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Daughter
Abuse
Attacking
Brutal
Child Abuse
Children
Mother
Son
Family Mother Father
Family Father Mother
Disciplinarian
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And my father was a comic. He could play any musical instrument. He loved to perform. He was a wonderfully comedic character. He had the ability to dance and sing and charm and analyze poetry.
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Dance
Ability
Character
Charm
Comedic
Comic
Father
Musical
Play
Analyze
Perform
Loved
Instrument
Musical Instrument
Sing
Wonderfully
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In a way, a certain amount of self-criticism is a good thing, because it keeps you humble. Realizing that no matter what success you've achieved, you can still make enemies makes you humble, too.
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Enemy
Humble
Realizing
Self
Achieved
Enemies
Good Thing
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But even though all this was going on at home, if someone had tried to take me away and put me in a children's home, I couldn't have handled it. Even though my mother was very brutal, it was my home.
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Home
Brutal
Children
Mother
Home Mother Me
Home Me Children
Handled
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My brother was a great audience, and if he liked the picture, he would laugh and laugh and laugh, and he would want to keep the picture. Making people laugh with an image I had created... what power that was!
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Audience
Brother
Laughing
People
Picture
Power Great People
Liked
Laugh
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After I got this job at the syndicate, I started sending them money so they could go on trips and do the things they could never afford to do. All the while, I never knew that my mother was socking money away.
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Syndicate
Afford
Sending
Trips
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I've had some tremendous adventures, good and bad. It's part of the novel, and a novel isn't interesting if it doesn't have some good and bad. And you don't know what good is if bad hasn't been a part of your life
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Adventure
Good And Bad
Interesting
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I've had some tremendous adventures, good and bad. It's part of the novel, and a novel isn't interesting if it doesn't have some good and bad. And you don't know what good is if bad hasn't been a part of your life.
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Good And Bad
Life Good Your
Life Good Bad
Adventures
Tremendous
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That's what my mother did. And my father was the first person she'd met who treated her kindly. She was terrified of men, and she married a very meek, kind, dear man. And she had the upper hand. She ruled the roost.
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Dear
Meek
Roost
Terrified
Upper Hand
Ruled
Upper
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Yes, and when I had Aaron, he left me, and I didn't know how to raise a child. And I wasn't close to my parents, and because I was too proud to go to my parents for help, I mistreated that little baby. I didn't want a baby.
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Mistreated
Me Parents Help
Aaron
Me Parents Know
Little Baby
Raise
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Photographs help people look at things they may not be able or may not want to look at. Until you can look at something, you can't change it. First you have to look at it, then you have a chance to understand it and can change it.
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People
Photography
Want
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We are all born with wonderful gifts. We use these gifts to express ourselves, to amuse, to strengthen, and to communicate. We begin as children to explore and develop our talents, often unaware that we are unique, that not everyone can do what we're doing!
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Children
Unique
Use
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If I was in love with someone, I would get their picture out of the school yearbook and do portraits. If I was curious about sex, I would draw pictures of it. There were no books for me to look at. Then I would go find my father's matches to burn the paper.
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Yearbook
Book
Curious
Father
Paper
Portraits
Sex
Love Sex Me
Burn
Draw
Matches
Pictures
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The emphasis in doing any in-depth photography is on building relationships, quality relationships. It's what I call thirty-cups-of-coffee-a-frame photography. You need to enter into the community - not just photographically, but intellectually and emotionally.
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Coffee
Community
Photography
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When Kate was born, she was born into a world of joy and happiness and confidence. The difference between the children is night and day. She's happy, she's thriving, she's full of self-confidence. I tell her she's beautiful every day before I send her off to school.
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Beautiful
Children
School
Send
Thriving
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Aaron and I will be joined at the hip until the day we die. We have loved and hated each other since the day he was born. He's very much a part of my heart. He's going to broadcasting college now, and he'll do fine. But he came into a world that did not welcome him.
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Broadcasting
College
Heart
Welcome
World
Aaron
Hip
Joined
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On a lazy Saturday morning when you're lying in bed, drifting in and out of sleep, there is a space where fantasy and reality become one. Are you awake, or are you dreaming? You see people and things; some are familiar; some are strange. You talk, you feel, but you move without walking; you fly without wings. Your mind and your body exist, but on separate planes. Time stands still. For me, this is the feeling I have when ideas come.
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Dream
Morning
Lying
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