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• It's shocking that so many children still live in fear as a result of violence in the home, and don't know who to turn to for help and support. As a child survivor of domestic violence I can remember the fear and isolation. I'm delighted to support the Hideout, the new Women's Aid website for children and young people. I know it could have made a real difference to me and will provide great comfort and support to thousands of children.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Children, Real, Home

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• Domestic violence affects many young people, whether in their relationships with each other or if they have grown up with violence in their homes. From playing Ste on Hollyoaks I can imagine how frightening it would be to have him as a boyfriend. Violence and bullying in relationships is always unacceptable. Everyone should Expect Respect in all of their relationships, and not only expect to be respected but to give respect to others as well.

  Kieron Richardson

  Bullying, Home, People

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• Being away from her is torturous and I'd much prefer to be with her. So I just try to get out of here as soon as I can. I make sure I do my job real well and fast.

  Richard Dean Anderson

  Jobs, Real, Trying

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

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• It seems to me there is a change in what audiences want to see…I can only hope that’s correct, because there’s an awful lot of people of my age around now and we outnumber the others.

  Maggie Smith

  People, Age, Want

  "Quote of the Day: 'It’s a Bit Baffling As To Why Everybody Has To Be Treated As If They Were Five Years Old'" by Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. October 16, 2012.

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• Well, once you've resigned yourself to the fact that you are the more mature pop performer and you're past the age you ever thought you would do it, you might as well do it as long as you can. As long as I can still lift a microphone, then I'll do it, you know.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Past, Long, Age

  "Paris match" by Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. June 9, 2007.

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• I'd always thought the Rats were good fun, but one of the very nice things about being of Saga age is that I can actually look back and think, When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.

  Bob Geldof

  Fun, Nice, Thinking

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• I am too many flavors for one f***ing spoon.
  I want to erase the lines so I can be me.
  If we do not speak, who will?

  Staceyann Chin

  Individuality, Spoons, Flavor

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• I'm a very brave person. I can go to North Vietnam, I can challenge my government, but I can't challenge the man I'm with if means I'm going to end up alone.

  Jane Fonda

  Mean, Men, Brave Person

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

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• Now, on nights that I can't sleep, I play video games alone until the morning.

  Namie Amuro

  Morning, Sleep, Night

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• In my cranky old age, I actually prefer recording alone now, on 'The Simpsons,' for example, because I find that the director can just focus on what I'm doing and I can do a lot of variations. A lot of times, when I record with a group, I'll stay after class for another hour or two.

  Hank Azaria

  Class, Two, Focus

  "Elijah Wood, Robin Williams, Hank Azaria and Common Talk HAPPY FEET TWO". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 15, 2011.

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• There's nobody else on the face of this earth that's playing a sport at a highest level... with a transplant. That alone continues to inspire me, because I realize throughout the whole world the struggles that people are going through. I need to inspire them the best way I can.

  Alonzo Mourning

  Sports, Struggle, People

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• It's necessary to start most work alone. But I'm tickled to death when I can pull somebody in or join someone, whether it's borrowing poetry or traveling with an associate.

  Jenny Holzer

  Borrowing, Associates

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• I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing, but at least I'm alone and I'm an individual. I can stop anytime I want, which I frequently do.

  Jack Vance

  Book, Want, Individual

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• I can barely remember what I wrote yesterday, let alone 10 years ago.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Years, Yesterday, Remember

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• I can support going in after Saddam Hussein, but I want to make sure I don't go alone.

  John Dingell

  Support, Hussein, Want

  "CNN Novak, Hunt & Shields". Interview with John Dingell, www.cnn.com. October 19, 2002.

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• One must not look inward too much, while the inside is yet tender. I do not wish to frighten myself until I can stand it.

  Djuna Barnes

  Wish, Inward, Looks

  Djuna Barnes (2016). “Vivid and Repulsive as the Truth: The Early Works of Djuna Barnes”, p.207, Courier Dover Publications

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• ... but I'm always being invaded by others' souls so I can't see my own soul very well.

  Shuntaro Tanikawa

  Soul, Conformity, Wells

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• In the antiseptic world we try to purge ourselves of difficult things. Don't dwell on it, switch off the light and go home. But this is home. I have to be a home to myself. I am the place I come back to and I can't keep hiding difficult things in trunks. Soon the house will be full of trunks and I perched on top of them with the phone saying, "Yes, I'm fine, of course, I'm fine, everything's fine." The trunks shudder.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Home, Phones, Light

  Jeanette Winterson (1995). “Art & Lies: A Piece for Three Voices and a Bawd”, Knopf

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• There is a language that is beyond words. If I can learn to decipher that language without words, I will be able to decipher the world.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, World

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• I write poetry because I can’t disobey the impulse; it would be like blocking a spring that surges up in my throat. For a long time I’ve been the servant of the song that comes, that appears and can’t be buried away. How to seal myself up now?…It no longer matters to me who receives what I submit. What I carry out is, in that respect, greater and deeper than I, I am merely the channel.

  Gabriela Mistral

  Song, Block, Spring

  Gabriela Mistral (2009). “Madwomen: The "Locas mujeres" Poems of Gabriela Mistral, a Bilingual Edition”, p.17, University of Chicago Press

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• The only thing I want is something I can't have; and that is to know if, 100 years from now, people will still buy my books.

  Rex Stout

  Book, Years, People

  "Rex Stout: 'No Man My Age Writes Books'" by John F. Bake, Publishers Weekly Magazine, pp. 28 - 29, October 29, 1973.

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• I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.

  Dashiell Hammett

  Thinking, Literature, Influence

  "Mystery writer" by Margaret Atwood, www.theguardian.com. February 15, 2002.

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• What I try to do is write a story about a detective rather than a detective story. Keeping the reader fooled until the last, possible moment is a good trick and I usually try to play it, but I can't attach more than secondary importance to it. The puzzle isn't so interesting to me as the behavior of the detective attacking it.

  Dashiell Hammett

  Writing, Play, Interesting

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• [Gandhi] said, "I want to find God, and because I want to find God, I have to find God along with other people. I don't believe I can find God alone. If I did, I would be running to the Himalayas to find God in some cave there. But since I believe that nobody can find God alone, I have to work with people. I have to take them with me. Alone I can't come to Him."

  Nelson Mandela

  Running, Believe, People

  "The Sacred Warrior" by Nelson Mandela, content.time.com. December 31, 1999.

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• I can't help it if the ladies take note of me; I am not going to protest.

  Nelson Mandela

  Helping, Notes, Protest

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