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• Anything and anyone that does not help you to become the best version of yourself is too small for you.

  Matthew Kelly

  Doe, Helping

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• Keep the faith...that the best is yet to come.
  Keep the faith that the next extraordinary version of you is being crafted even now...that nothing can deter you from keeping your commitment to achieving your goals set for today...that you can better your best!
  Keep the faith.
  Move forward in spite of your fears and despite any evidence to the contrary.
  Believe that IT'S POSSIBLE!!

  Les Brown

  Moving, Believe, Commitment

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• And yet, within her anxiety, secured there like a gemstone, she carries the cool and curious power of occasionally being able to see the world vividly. Clarity bursts upon her a spray of little stars. She understands this, and thinks of it as one of the tricks of consciousness; there is something almost luxurious about it.. The narrative maze opens and permits her to pass through. She may be crowded out of her own life - she knows this for a fact and has always know it - but she possesses, as a compensatory gift, the startling ability to draft alternative versions.

  Carol Shields

  Stars, Thinking, Anxiety

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• You can start over again! Don't even think about quitting now! It is easy to replay in your mind how things did not work, how much you lost, what you are going through, how angry you are. There is no amount of conversation or magic that is going to wipe the slate clean. You are wasting valuable time and energy that could be used to regain a new normal and start another version of your life. Even though you are hurt and you may be feeling down — stop kicking yourself! Face what has happened. Make the decision to start over again.

  Les Brown

  Hurt, Thinking, New Normal

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• A lot of people want to see this idealized version of heroism, all pretty and perfect, and I'm not interested in playing the goody-goody hero at all.

  Matthew Fox

  Hero, People, Perfect

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• Somebody asked me what I thought next generation meant and what about the PlayStation 3 was next generation. The only next gen system I've seen is the Wii - the PS3 and the Xbox 360 feel like better versions of the last, but pretty much the same game with incremental improvement.

  Will Wright

  Xbox, Games, Generations

  "Q&A: Will Wright, creator of the Sims". Interview with Bobbie Johnson, www.theguardian.com. Ocotber 26, 2007.

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• The magical approach is indeed the natural approach to life's experience. It is the adult version of childhood knowledge, the human version of the animals' knowledge, the conscious version of 'unconscious' comprehension.

  Seth

  Animal, Childhood, Magic

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• In a Christian Theocracy, you'll never be Christian enough. There's always going to be somebody there with another version of Christianity that is more Christian than you and you're going to lose the freedom to make the choice because you didn't defend the Separation of Church and State when you had the chance.

  David Silverman

  Christian, Choices, Church

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• Our essential purpose is to become the best version of ourselves.

  Matthew Kelly

  Essentials, Purpose

  Matthew Kelly (2008). “Building Better Families: A Practical Guide to Fostering Connection, Values, and Growth”, p.9, Ballantine Books

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• Meditation puts into question more or less everything you tend to do in your search for happiness. But if you lose sight of this, it can become just another strategy for seeking happiness - a more refined version of the problem you already have.

  Sam Harris

  Sight, Meditation, Problem

  "Taming the Mind". Interview with with Dan Harris, samharris.org. September 17, 2014.

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• 2001: A Space Odyssey was a wonderful conundrum when I was a boy, with its giant concepts thrown across the giant screen at Indian Hills Theater. That movie woke me up in ways that I hadn't imagined, and I went searching for book versions of the same drug.

  Robert Reed

  Book, Boys, Space

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• I had wanted to make this film [Suffragette] for over a decade. There has never been a cinematic rendition of this story. I had not been taught any of the history of the movement at school, and the version I had gleaned had been the Mary Poppins story of women in large hats, petitioning. There was another version.

  Sarah Gavron

  School, Taught, Hats

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Acting was definitely half of what I loved about storytelling and about theater. So, when I get a chance to do a cameo in a show or do a movie, it's a lot of fun and it's always great stepping outside of yourself and either playing a bizarro version of yourself or playing a character.

  Josh Groban

  Fun, Character, Acting

  "Josh Groban indulges his inner musical theater geek with ‘Stages’". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 7, 2015.

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• I have seen lampoons of my work. And I have really enjoyed them. But I would never do another version of The Exorcist.

  William Friedkin

  Exorcist, Enjoyed

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Well, on a personal level, I would never want to take on a character who didn’t have some redeemable qualities. Even the worst of people, such as Michael Scott in The Office [Carell’s character in the US version of the Ricky Gervais sitcom], have some decent human qualities that you can latch onto.

  Steve Carell

  Character, People, Office

  "Dan In Real Life - Steve Carell interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• It's been a while. I haven't seen the actual gag reel they put on the DVD. I just saw the DVD myself, so I know that it's going to be some version of what we saw at our wrap party. Some of the funniest things probably wouldn't make it to the DVD and that involved Ryan O'Neal singing and they intercut that with the American Idol judges judging him, which was pretty funny.

  Emily Deschanel

  Party, Dvds, Idols

  "Emily Deschanel Talks Bones: Season 2". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. September 26, 2007.

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• The point of the first one was that it was about guys being lured by sex and the stereotypes... I always say it's like a horror version of Borat. Borat's not an accurate depiction of Khazakstan, it's an accurate depiction of America. That's what Hostel is.

  Eli Roth

  Sex, America, Guy

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I used to need the character but as I've gotten older I need it less and less - I prefer to play some version of myself. To approach any acting job as me just being me.

  Michael Ian Black

  Jobs, Character, Play

  "Michael Ian Black on Parenting, Pop Culture and His Worst Christmas Present Ever". Interview with Sarah Thyre, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 16, 2012.

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• When I'm writing novels, even screenplays, it's never an actor I have in mind; it's always the version in my head of who the character is. Once somebody gets cast, I have to adjust a little bit to who they are.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Writing, Character, Mind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There's songs that could either be taken as a conversation between two people, like "The Privateers," or "Why," from a much earlier record. Or "Glass Figurine." That's my version of a relationship song.

  Andrew Bird

  Song, Taken, Glasses

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If you're doing a classic play, where if you do a Chekhov, you do the words as written. You can't do that with a novel; you have to do your version of the words as written.

  Sam Mendes

  Play, Classic, Chekhov

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I want to build as many worlds as possible - each a version of ours with a crack running through it - and not be anchored to any of them.

  Benjamin Percy

  Running, Cracks, World

  "The Infectious Benjamin Percy". Interview with Jennifer Sky, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 6, 2013.

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• I do think that sometimes you can invent more palatable or digestible reasons versions or reasons, when perhaps you don't want to admit the truth to yourself, and sometimes we deceive ourselves - along with others - about our reasons and motives.

  Adam Brody

  Thinking, Want, Sometimes

  "Adam Brody Makes Some Winsome Wagers". Interview with Alice Greenberg, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 20, 2012.

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• I don't believe in hell. The idea that a supreme being would make hell is ridiculous. An eternity of pain that results in no learning, reformation or rebirth is a nauseating idea. It's one of the reasons I left Christianity. I simply could not accept that version of God.

  Anne Rice

  Pain, Believe, Ideas

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I was very young, I was already a fabulador. I loved to give my own version of stories that everybody already knew. When I got out of a movie with my sisters, I retold them the whole story. In general they liked my version better than the one they had seen.

  Pedro Almodovar

  Movie, Giving, Stories

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