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We have been helping, trying to help Afghanistan in many ways, even from the beginning of... the beginnings of the '20s, 1920s, when he we were fighting our own national struggle.

~Bulent Ecevit

Topics: Afghanistan Been Beginning Beginnings Even Fighting He Help Helping Many National Our Own Struggle Trying Ways Were 1920S

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I was incredibly determined - I wrote short stories, I wrote the beginnings of novels. I wrote a little children's book and sent it to the editor-in-chief of the children's division of Simon and Schuster and she asked me to write a little children's book for a series she was doing.

~Candace Bushnell

Topics: Asked Beginnings Book Children Determined Division Doing Incredibly Little Me Novels Sent Series She Short Short Stories Simon Stories Write Wrote

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I really feel that I had a genuinely diverse, multicultural upbringing, and I just don't find New York to be quite as diverse. Maybe I'm romanticising, but I feel that I was exposed to a real melting pot in terms of culture and pop culture. My kids are essentially middle-class, but I do try to remind them that they come from humble beginnings.

~Carmen Ejogo

Topics: Beginnings Come Culture Diverse Essentially Exposed Feel Find Genuinely Had Humble Just Kids Maybe Melting Melting Pot Middle-Class Multicultural New New York Pop Pop Culture Pot Quite Real Really Remind Terms Them Try Upbringing York I Feel

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I think a lot of people want stories or lives to have very distinct beginnings, middles, and endings. Generally, I think things are a little more fluid than that.

~Carrie Brownstein

Topics: Beginnings Distinct Endings Fluid Generally Little Lives Lot More People Stories Than Things Think Very Want I Think

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To the extent that I come from a deeply religious tradition and have been contending with those beginnings all of my life - that constitutes the subject of much of my early fiction.

~Chaim Potok

Topics: Been Beginnings Come Contending Deeply Early Extent Fiction Life Much My Life Religious Subject Those Tradition

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The American imagination has never been able to fully recover from its white-supremacist beginnings.

~Claudia Rankine

Topics: Able American Been Beginnings Fully Imagination Never Recover

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I sometimes think I might be autistic because I like to know - I need to know - my beginnings and my ends. I don't have to be in control of it, but I need to know what's going on.

~Clay Aiken

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I love the idea of stories being about great beginnings and terrible endings.

~Clive Barker

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I had the humble beginnings. I was doing comedy in laundry mats in 1992, literally where I would bring a little gorilla amp and a lapel mike and just start performing.

~Dane Cook

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We are watching the beginnings of the defiant self-assertion of a new generation of Americans, a generation who are looking forward to finishing their education with no jobs, no future, but still saddled with enormous and unforgivable debt.

~David Graeber

Topics: American Beginnings Debt Education Enormous Finishing Forward Future Generation Jobs Looking Looking Forward New New Generation No Future Still Watching Who

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