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I found many ways around my dyslexia, but I still have trouble transforming words into sounds. I have to memorize and rehearse before reading anything aloud to avoid embarrassing myself by mispronouncing words.
Philip Schultz
There is always a certain leap of faith that editors have made with their nonfiction writers. If the trust is broken, things can get very embarrassing for the writers and the publisher.
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I always made a decent living.


June Squibb
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My son Chris said he was 12 years old before he knew what I did for a living.


Bob Elliott
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It is the answers, not the questions, that are embarrassing.


Helen Suzman
Out of grad school, I worked as a tech writer for a while before going into computer coding for a living.
Richard Powers
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Basically, my life is so boring, it's embarrassing.


Hugh Grant
It's embarrassing to tell you how much my friends make fun of me. Seriously, when you have a doll made of your face, it's ridiculous how creative your friends can get... pictures, videos, little animated cartoons that they've made.
Channing Tatum
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When I was growing up, it was so embarrassing to be from Jersey.


Tate Donovan
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I made a living out of being a class clown.


Shannon Hoon
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To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent.


Dave Barry
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Before operating on a patient's brain... I must first understand his mind: his identity, his values, what makes his life worth living, and what devastation makes it reasonable to let that life end.
Paul Kalanithi
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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.
Albert Camus
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Sometimes I try a Mai Tai. It's so fruity. It's a little embarrassing, but I like it.


J. Cole
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I made people laugh as a kid, but that's not how you make a living.


Bob Newhart
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No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.


Alan Watts
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Before I went to a meeting at the 'Harvard Lampoon,' I had no idea that there was even a comedy magazine at Harvard, let alone that you could write comedy potentially for a living.
Colin Jost
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Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
Ambrose Bierce
The longest, most solid and complex relationship in my life is with my mother. It started before I was born, and now, when I am 71 and living in California and she is 92 and living in Chile, we are still in touch daily.
Isabel Allende
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There's more good music being made now than ever before.


David Byrne
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