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• I used to refer to my drug use as putting the monster in the box. I wanted to be less, so I took more - simple as that. Anyway, I eventually decided that the reason Dr. Stone had told me I was hypomanic was that he wanted to put me on medication instead of actually treating me. So I did the only rational thing I could do in the face of such as insult - I stopped talking to Stone, flew back to New York, and married Paul Simon a week later.

  Carrie Fisher

  New York, Simple, Drug Use

  Carrie Fisher (2012). “Wishful Drinking”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• And the vision that I had when I decided to come here is all coming true. Through adversity, through everything we've been through, we've been able to persevere ... It's an unbelievable feeling.

  Micky Arison

  Adversity, Nba Championships, Feelings

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• I've given up reading the papers. Since the world's so obviously bent on killing itself, I decided months ago to sit back and let it.

  Sarah Waters

  Reading, Months, World

  Sarah Waters (2006). “The Night Watch”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

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• Turtles have always been my sigil, I suppose. When I was a kid, growing up in Bayonne, NJ, I lived in a federal housing project, and we were not allowed to have a dog or cats. The only pets I could have were turtles. So, I had an entire toy castle filled with dime-store turtles. I gave them all names, and since they were living in a toy castle, I decided they were all knights and kingsand I made up stories about how they killed each other and betrayed each other and fought for the kingdom. So, Game of Thrones, actually began with turtles. I decided later to recast it with actual human beings.

  George R. R. Martin

  Dog, Growing Up, Cat

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• You loved people and you came to depend on their being there. but people died or changed or went away and it hurt too much. The only way to avoid that poin was not to love anyone, and not to let anyone get too close or too important. The secret of not being hurt like this again, I decided, was never depending on anyone, never needing, never loving.It is the last dream of children, to be forever untouched.

  Audre Lorde

  Dream, Hurt, Children

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• It used to take me forever to read and comprehend stuff, so I decided not to make the 'Captain Underpants' books too challenging. Don't get me wrong - the humor and ideas are often sophisticated - but the books aren't hard to read. I wanted kids who hate reading to find these books irresistible.

  Dav Pilkey

  Hate, Reading, Book

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

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• Being an author of banned books is cool, I've decided.

  Lauren Myracle

  Book, Banned Books, Banned

  "And The Banned Played On" by Lauren Myracle, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 16, 2012.

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• I was still closeted, but from the day I decided to run for office, knowing that I was gay, I decided that I would, of course, still be closeted but that I would work very hard for gay rights. It would be totally dishonorable, being gay, not to do that. So I had that as kind of a secondary agenda.

  Barney Frank

  Running, Gay, Rights

  "In Conversation: Barney Frank". Interview with Jason Zengerle, nymag.com. April 15, 2012.

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• While I pride myself on trying to be creative in all areas of my life, I have occasionally gone overboard, like the time I decided to bring to a party a salad that I constructed, on a huge rattan platter, to look like a miniature scale model of the Gardens of Babylon.

  Gregory Maguire

  Party, Pride, Garden

  "Meet the Writers: Biography (from barnesandnoble.com)".

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• After six years at Le Cirque, I decided to start my own business. I opened Daniel at 76th Street in May 93.

  Daniel Boulud

  Years, May, Six

  "The Daniel Boulud Experience". Interview with Rachel Small, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 20, 2013.

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• My senior year of high school, I was voted Wittiest. So, several years later, I decided to try my hand at writing humor to see if I could be witty enough to make some money.

  Barbara Park

  Senior, Witty, Writing

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• Basically, I was always very interested in comedy, but I was much more sort of academic. And then, after college, loaded with my art history degree, I decided to go work at Comedy Central as a temp.

  Jessi Klein

  Art, College, Degrees

  "Comedian Jessi Klein Plays Not My Job Listen". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. April 8, 2011.

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• I've decided that I'm not going to try to squeeze myself into a friendship that hurts me anymore. I'm going to let her go and just be friends with people who make me feel good about myself.

  Zoe Sugg

  Hurt, People, Feel Good

  Zoe Sugg (2016). “Girl Online: The First Novel by Zoella”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• Who are you now? Who have you decided to become? Make this decision consciously. Make it carefully. Make it powerfully. Then act upon it.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Decision, Crossroads

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Feb 02, 2017

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• I was 45 years old when I decided to learn how to surf.

  Brian Grazer

  Years, Surf

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• Barry Goldwater has definitely decided to be a candidate in '64. He will campaign in all thirteen states.

  George Carlin

  Campaigns, States, Thirteen

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• In the current [Carter] administration, who can use the White House swimming pool and tennis courts is decided at the very highest level. President Ford did not bother himself with such minor details. He let me swim in the pool. He only got upset when I tried to walk across the water.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Swimming, White, Water

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• On March 8 a poll showed Hart 9 points ahead of Reagan. So perhaps 60 million Americans, 55 million of whom had not heard of Hart a month ago, have suddenly decided thay want him to be leader of the free world. The public mind is not just soft wax, it's runny.

  George Will

  Leader, Mind, World

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• You always have to appeal to your audience. You always have to consider how well your project will do in terms of admissions. I abandoned many stories because of that. But I don't get too down about it. It's something I accepted from the time I decided to work in films.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Stories, Film, Accepted

  Source: variety.com

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• I was in college, I thought I was going to be a lawyer, I met this girl named Laura who was the most beautiful girl I had ever known, and she was taking an acting class, so I decided to take the same acting class. And I was a terrible actor in college.

  Kurt Fuller

  Beautiful, Girl, College

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I came to the conclusion that in comedy, everybody gets what they need, whereas in horror, everybody gets what they deserve. I decided that at the end of the day, I was going to give everybody what they needed.

  Neil Gaiman

  Giving, The End Of The Day, Needs

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. September 28, 2005.

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• My parents offered me my first camera for my birthday and I developed an exclusive passion for it over the years. Since I was not the most social kid on the block, the camera helped me to express myself, invent my own language - something like a secret garden. I decided early on I would not write in a diary but take silent photographs instead.

  Hedi Slimane

  Block, Passion, Writing

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• I've decided the secret of parenting is benevolent neglect.I put my family last. Because if you don't, if you put them first, they never thank you. You'll never get a word of thanks from them.

  Barry Humphries

  Secret, Lasts, Firsts

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I wanted to be a veterinarian. I adored animals, raised everything in the world and decided that was going to be what I was going to do. But I could sing.

  Shirley Jones

  Animal, World, Veterinarian

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I've been inspired by films since I started dancing, and I'm married to a filmmaker, and I think it was one of my secret desires, but I was afraid to just say, 'I want to be a director'. But then one day I said, O.K., stop dreaming and do it. But I didn't want to do it the Hollywood way, and talk through agents. I decided it all had to be generated by me, so I wrote it.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Dream, Thinking, Dancing

  "Madonnarama!". Interview with Rich Cohen, www.vanityfair.com. May 2008.

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