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  Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

  Judy Garland

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Business Etiquette for the Nineties: Your Ticket to Career Success". Book by Lou Kennedy, 1992.

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• One can only hope the person you love will make you the best version of yourself.

  Mia Maestro

  Persons

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• It is better to write a bad first draft than to write no first draft at all.

  Will Shetterly

  Book, Writing, Firsts

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• Whenever someone who knows you disappears, you lose one version of yourself. Yourself as you were seen, as you were judged to be. Lover or enemy, mother or friend, those who know us construct us, and their several knowings slant the different facets of our characters like diamond-cutter's tools. Each such loss is a step leading to the grave, where all versions blend and end.

  Salman Rushdie

  Friends, Mother, Character

  "The Ground Beneath Her Feet". Book by Salman Rushdie, April, 1999.

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• And I’d choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I’d find you and I’d choose you.

  Kiersten White

  Love, Romantic, Reality

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• Always be a first-rate version of yourself.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Inspirational, Graduation, Bullying

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

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• There are two versions of math in the lives of many Americans: the strange and boring subject that they encountered in classrooms and an interesting set of ideas that is the math of the world, and is curiously different and surprisingly engaging. Our task is to introduce this second version to today's students, get them excited about math, and prepare them for the future.

  Jo Boaler

  Education, Teacher, Math

  Jo Boaler (2015). “What's Math Got to Do with It?: How Teachers and Parents Can Transform Mathematics Learning and Inspire Success”, p.5, Penguin

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• The intrinsic path to success is to focus on being the person that you are, and put all of your energy and drive into being the best possible version of yourself.

  Paul Buchheit

  Focus, Energy, Path

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• Being so rational, we have created a very simple version of ourselves.

  Marcel Wanders

  Simple, Rational

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• Most of my work comes from ideas. I can usually do only a few versions of each idea. Land Art and Body Art were particularly strong concepts which allowed for a lot of permutations. But nevertheless, I found myself wanting to move onward into something else.

  Dennis Oppenheim

  Art, Strong, Moving

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• There's always going to be a separate version of you that people will create, and you have no control over it.

  Rebecca Hall

  People, Over It

  "Who, me? Why everyone is talking about Rebecca Hall" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2010.

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• Bjorn Borg looks like a hunchbacked, jut-bottomed version of Lizabeth Scott, impersonating a bearded Apache princess.

  Clive James

  Princess, Tennis, Looks

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• You have two kinds of shows on Broadway - revivals and the same kind of musicals over and over again, all spectacles. You get your tickets for 'The Lion King' a year in advance, and essentially a family comes as if to a picnic, and they pass on to their children the idea that that's what the theater is - a spectacular musical you see once a year, a stage version of a movie. It has nothing to do with theater at all. It has to do with seeing what is familiar. We live in a recycled culture.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Kings, Children, Years

  "We will shock you: why musicals need to take bigger risks on a smaller scale" by Boff Whalley, www.theguardian.com. November 29, 2010.

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• I want to meet the man who saw a turtle and said, "People will LOVE the ninja version of that."

  Jonah Hill

  Men, Turtles, People

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• The notion that any one person can describe 'what really happened' is an absurdity. If ten - or a hundred - people witness an event, there will be ten - or a hundred - different versions of what took place. What we see and how we interpret it depends entirely upon our individual past experience.

  David Eddings

  Wisdom, Past, People

  David Eddings, Leigh Eddings (1997). “Polgara the Sorceress”, Del Rey

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• We have to have a version of our own story that we keep telling ourselves that allows us to get up in the morning. This version of yourself is what you sell to yourself. I think it necessarily includes ... not looking at certain things. Everybody's got some blind spot.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Morning, Thinking, Blind Spots

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• People come to New York City because they want something different... now, people are just getting the sterilized version of that.

  Robert Anasi

  New York, Cities, Want Something

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• Most artists I run into aren't that thrilled with what they do anyway. They are glad to have different versions out there to see which one the audience likes the best.

  Wayne Coyne

  Running, Artist, Different

  "The Flaming Lips Interview From Noise11.com Archives". Interview with Paul Cashmere, www.noise11.com. April 23, 2016.

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• Avatars are a way to express our true selves, our most heroic, idealized version of who we might become.

  Jane McGonigal

  Inspirational, Motivational, Self

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• Everyone lives three versions of themselves; a public life, a private life and a secret life.

  Lauren Beukes

  Secret, Three, Private Life

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• I figure if it's turns out well the film will have its own momentum and will carry into the video release. So it's hard to really picture the DVD version when I'm in production.

  Jay Roach

  Dvds, Momentum, Video

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

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• The Milkoviches are a much more extreme, much darker version of what the Gallaghers could be. The Gallaghers don't have a violent, sexually abusive, bigoted gangster for a father.

  Noel Fisher

  Father, Violent, Gallagher

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• I think it's a universal thing in every family, that people have their own specific versions of pivotal events or even small memories.

  Sarah Polley

  Memories, Thinking, People

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• It may sound like a mess, but sometimes mess can be okay, mess can be fine. Sometimes mess is just another word for living your life as real you, not someone else's version of what they think you should be.

  Terence Blacker

  Real, Thinking, Live Your Life

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• To be a runner is to learn continual life lessons. To be a coach is not just to teach these lessons but also to feel them in the core of your marrow. The very act of surpassing personal limits in training and racing will bend the mind and body toward a higher purpose for the rest of my runners' lives. Settling for mediocrity-settling instead of pushing-those who learn to be the best version of themselves know the secret to a full life.

  Martin Dugard

  Life Lesson, Training, Mind

  Martin Dugard (2011). “To Be a Runner: How Racing Up Mountains, Running with the Bulls, or Just Taking On a 5-K Makes You a Better Person (and the World a Better Place)”, p.15, Rodale

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