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When I began work on my first book, 'The River of Doubt,' which tells the story of Theodore Roosevelt's 1914 descent of an unmapped river in the Amazon rainforest, I thought of it as a tale of adventure, exploration and extraordinary courage.

~Candice Millard

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I am just doing photo shoots. It's not something that extraordinary. I'm not a great artist, I'm not writing books, I'm not a painter, and people in the streets ask me for a picture or a note, and I say, 'Why?'

~Carine Roitfeld

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Northern Uganda presents a situation of extraordinary violation of the rights of children.

~Carol Bellamy

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Christian Science has been enormously influential in our religious history, and the church is very powerful. It has won an extraordinary number of legal battles in this country. It has succeeded in passing a number of what are called 'religious exemption laws.'

~Caroline Fraser

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Ishmael Beah was born and spent his childhood in Sierra Leone as that sad but beautiful West African country was ravaged by a civil war that left some 50,000 dead between 1991 and 2002. He was a child soldier for a while, then, through extraordinary circumstances, was set free of that life.

~Carolyn See

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The NBA has been extraordinary in its use and embrace of social media; they are by far the leader in professional sports.

~Casey Wasserman

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People had always vaguely mentioned that when you have children, how part of your life would stop. But they don't say that some other extraordinary part of your life opens up.

~Cate Blanchett

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I want to be able to follow the example of those extraordinary British actresses who move effortlessly from film to TV to theatre roles.

~Cate Blanchett

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Cinema is still a very young art form with extraordinary techniques and very impressive special effects but sometimes it seems the soul has been taken out of things.

~Catherine Deneuve

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I knew it was going to be the most extraordinary thing in my life, but how powerful it is, you can never know until you have a baby.

~Celine Dion

Topics: Baby Extraordinary Going How Knew Know Life Most My Life Never Powerful Thing Until You

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