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Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.
- Dalton Trumbo
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I want to move people; it's not about me. I have been given the gift of being an entertainer. I love getting to touch people's lives.
- Bethany Joy Lenz
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To have a drama teacher as a mentor was just like, 'Oh, what a gift.'
- Jeff Perry
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I've never used chat-up lines; I don't have the gift of the gab.
- Ricky Whittle
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A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.
- Margaret Atwood
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I had been living with dialysis for three years or so, and the new kidney felt like a reprieve, a new gift of life. I felt alive again and I guess that has had an effect on my use of colour.
- Peter Wright
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I love the process of acting, and to turn your passion into a career is the biggest gift.
- Ram Kapoor
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Humor is the most precious gift I can give to my reader, a reminder that the world is not such a terribly serious place. There is more than video games and drugs and nuclear threats; there is laughter, and there is hope.
- James Howe
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During the holiday season, it's easy to forget that sometimes the best gift of all is simply the gift of time. I can't think of anything a writer would appreciate more than being given time and space to work.
- Kate Klise
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I wrote a book on grace, and grace is a free gift, but to receive the gift you have to have your hands open. And a lot of people don't have their hands open, there's something they're grasping because there's a lot of things to grasp in a prosperous country.
- Philip Yancey
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I am so grateful to God for giving me the gift of 48 years with my daughter. And I accept that He knew when it was time to take her.
- Cissy Houston
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I've learnt that the muse is like an angry girlfriend. If she comes knocking you better be home because if you're not, she doesn't leave a note saying pick up after 3 P. M. from the post office. The gift she had is gone forever.
- Anh Do
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I think it's a gift to become a star, to become a celebrity.
- Amy Smart
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The best gift we can have is living in the present moment and really enjoying it for what it is; and, not being in our heads and getting sidetracked.
- Amy Smart
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The ability to make music is a gift that you're born with; it's not something you can learn.
- Robin Trower
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I feel I've been blessed with a gift of creativity and composition. That's why I've been able to keep going.
- Robin Trower
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The deepest gift you can learn in life is about self-love, and that's not going to happen overnight.
- Rumer Willis
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I have never really believed that acting is very difficult. I think some people have a skill and are able to act, and if you have that natural gift, it's not difficult.
- Mark Strickson
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Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town, country, earth, and all worldly things, that it is truly a blessed gift of God.
- Felix Mendelssohn
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It may be that that we can sing what we often cannot say, whether it be from shyness, fear, lack of the right words or the passion or dramatic gift to express them. More souls have rallied to more causes by the strains of music than by straining rhetoric.
- Richard Rodgers
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Baseball for me was instinctive, born within me, given to me as a gift from God.
- Willie Stargell
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As somebody who has wanted to be an actor who is very young, I can relate to somebody who has been practicing oboe five days a week since they were very young. The physicality of anything a character does is a tremendous gift.
- Lola Kirke
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I will never be good at the oboe. No matter what happens, I will never be good at it because I just don't have that much time on my hands. I don't have the gift of going back to being a child and having my brain develop around this instrument.
- Lola Kirke
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The ability to conduct is a gift of God with which few have been endowed in full measure.
- Anton Seidl
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Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift.
- Anton Seidl
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The conductor's gift does not always go hand in hand with that of composition; indeed, the union is found much more seldom than is popularly believed.
- Anton Seidl
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Michael is a gift from Allah, and he is taking him back. The world didn't appreciate him.
- Jermaine Jackson
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I just feel that God gave me a certain gift, and that was to go out, do storytelling and be an actor. And my responsibility with that gift is to do the best job possible and to re-create real life.
- Eric Close
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I choose to live in the present because when you suffer from chronic illness, you don't have a choice. It's day by day, one foot in front of the other. When there is a good day, you soak up that moment. Those 'good selfie' moments are captured because they're a gift.
- Yolanda Hadid
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At the end off the day we're all the same, we're normal human beings with a gift we've been given so it's very difficult to handle all of those situations that happy in football with money and fame.
- Eric Dier
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If they want to talk about aliens and anything like that... that's part of the gift God gave us. That's what makes life exciting. We're pretty stuck, you know. What gives flight to our life is our imagination.
- Michael Moriarty
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Our mothers give us so many gifts. They give us the precious gift of life, of course, but they also leave treasured lessons that can guide us along our journeys even when they are no longer with us.
- Maria Shriver
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The Bake Off' can get emotional, but 'The Gift' is a whole different league!
- Mel Giedroyc
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When you're young, you think you can do anything, and that was really a gift. That's why I can never understand someone telling me 'no' today. 'No' just isn't an option.
- Sandra Lee
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Each of us has a gift, a talent, that we can offer to the world that makes the world essentially a better place.
- James Redfield
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I believe life is a gift, and I want to live it productively. I am not into this numbers game.
- Ajith Kumar
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When I design something, I think of it as a gift to somebody else.
- Eva Zeisel
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I was blessed with a gift. It's a gift and a curse. It never ends.
- Dan Fogelberg
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I love Jo Malone. I got the Orange Blossom scent as a gift many years ago, and I fell in love with it. It's very light, natural, sweet. It's there but not that obvious.
- Zhu Zhu
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As soon as I discovered PlayStation, I was throwing hints here and there to my dad - cutting out the clipping of a video game, cutting out the clippings of the PlayStation, leaving it on his dresser. I remember on Christmas morning, I unwrapped my gift, and sure enough, it was the PS2. I've been a PlayStation guy ever since.
- Paul George
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Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.
- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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You can take lessons to become almost anything: flying lessons, piano lessons, skydiving lessons, acting lessons, race car driving lessons, singing lessons. But there's no class for comedy. You have to be born with it. God has to give you this gift.
- Steve Harvey
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'Bonfire' was kicking around for a very long time. It was an idea I wanted to explore for a television show. Then I was given this weird gift of time when 'Jessica Jones' finished season one. I got really organized and just kind of banged it out, but it took a long time. It took two years to even have a first draft.
- Krysten Ritter
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Pray God in the bowels of his mercy to send you his Holy Spirit; for he hath given you his great gift of utterance, if it pleased him also to open the eyes of your heart.
- Jane Grey
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My gift, if I have one, is choosing terrific talent and providing the atmosphere for them to do their best work.
- Geraldine Stutz
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The gift of sobriety is clarity and a sense of connection - and travel only enhances that.
- J. Maarten Troost
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The greatest gift I've ever received is being a teacher.
- Alyssa Edwards
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The kind of crazy amount of fan following that I achieved from 'Ek Hazaaron Mein' was amazing. We used to get i-Pads as gift, Abercrombie and Fitch dresses from America. I had everything in the world.
- Nia Sharma
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Some people are good with children. Others are not. It is a gift. You either have it, or you don't. My father didn't.
- Christopher Robin Milne
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I am not trying to change the world. I am just offering my gift that God gave me, and if somebody is moved by it, that's beautiful.
- Lenny Kravitz
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If you can get really good at destroying your own wrong ideas, that is a great gift.
- Charlie Munger
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The great Satyr and Tiger of Hyrcania presents a gift to those of the Ocean; A fleet's chief will set out from Carmania, one who will take land at the Tyrren Phocaean.
- Nostradamus
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God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in it.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Plunderous is the palate I gift to you, openly I hug the universe of our friendship expanding its outer limit.
- Bradley Chicho
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I really try to have fun. If I don't have fun, you won't have fun. That's what my gift is: to relieve people from a little of the pain and comfort in their lives by allowing my comedy to distract them. A good laugh is almost as good as any doctor visit.
- Louie Anderson
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I believe the gift of acting is a gift from God, my oath to God, and I want to make sure on a daily basis that it is honed and deeply spiritual... I want to believe that the audience believes that my acting comes from this special place.
- Louis Gossett, Jr.
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I became an actress and studied human emotions so that I could give the gift of feelings to my son. This is what my whole journey has been about.
- Tisha Campbell-Martin
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I love all the gift guides that the magazines put out, whether it's 'InStyle' doing Mother's Day gifts or color guides, or the 'O' magazine Christmas guide.
- Dylan Lauren
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For Christmas I do gift bags for my friends and the cast, and I put 'treat yo self' key chains in there. And people send me pictures of 'treat yo self' all the time.
- Retta
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My favorite toy growing up was Polly Pocket. But one gift that I wanted though never received for Christmas was a pair of trampoline moon shoes. You strap them to your feet and they have springs on them, and you can just jump around!
- Lucy Hale
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Being attractive, it's not something I do consciously. It's incredibly flattering that people think I appeal to women. But that was a gift from my parents.
- Ioan Gruffudd
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Songwriting wasn't my gift. I think you have to cultivate a gift; you have to practice and develop craft around your gift so that you can execute it in more convenient, efficient ways.
- Linda Ronstadt
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I was in Siena and decided I wanted to write a story set there. Then I discovered that the original story of Romeo and Juliet was set in Siena. It occurred to me that this was too much of a gift - I had to do it. That's how I ended up writing a parallel story to Romeo and Juliet.
- Anne Fortier
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In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more human face.
- Steven Biko
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Writing is never, ever easy but I wake up every morning grateful for the gift of being able to do this.
- Guy Gavriel Kay
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Every day, I love what I do and I think it's a gift and privilege to love your job.
- Sarah Burton
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I think you can get better in mathematics on a school level, but when you're talking about being a mathematician, I think that's definitely a gift of genes or whatever, you know? Whatever your pool is.
- John Hurt
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We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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Because my man is handsome and successful, that makes me a gold digger? First of all, I pay my own bills, and I still pay my own bills. But if your man is gonna give you a gift, you're gonna accept it. I'm not gonna be like, 'No, can you please take back the Louis Vuitton purse?' Absolutely not.
- Nikki Bella
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In 1995, I founded The Molecular Sciences Institute with a gift from the Philip Morris Company where I hoped that we could create an environment where young people could pursue science in an atmosphere of harmonious purpose and high intellectual challenge.
- Sydney Brenner
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If we misuse the gift of sexuality, we're going to suffer the consequences, and I firmly believe we are suffering the consequences.
- Salvatore J. Cordileone
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I really appreciate the many neighbourhoods of Berkeley. There is still the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker. And it has the University of California, which is the greatest gift, to my mind, to be close to it. It keeps the place alive.
- Alice Waters
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Maybe I have some god-given gift to act as a policeman.
- Suresh Gopi
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It is the gift of seeing the life around them clearly and vividly, as something that is exciting in its own right. It is an innate gift, varying in intensity with the individual's temperament and environment.
- Bill Brandt
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My father, Leo Henry Brown, really was talented - he could write. He had a gift, and he had a great, sly humor.
- Angie Dickinson
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My captors were definitely aware that what they were doing was wrong. It came out in small ways - occasionally through a show of guilt or compassion. One of the boys bought me a gift. Another used to sneak me acetaminophen tablets.
- Amanda Lindhout
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I think Whitman more than any other poet possessed the gift of revealing to others the beauty of everything around us, the beauty of nature, the beauty of human beings.
- Ella R. Bloor
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Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. Thy claim it as their own and none can keep it from them.
- Kwame Nkrumah
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I've gotten books published. I've met famous people that are very nice. I look back and I say, 'Wow. Thank you, God, for giving me this gift. And thank you for helping me to keep going.'
- Mattie Stepanek
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Failure is ultimately very liberating. Once you come out the other side of it, you just might have faced one of your biggest fears and lived. The other side of failure is a big elimination of fear of failure. Trust me, that is an amazing gift.
- Julie Wainwright
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In some parts of the world, students are going to school every day. It's their normal life. But in other part of the world, we are starving for education... it's like a precious gift. It's like a diamond.
- Malala Yousafzai
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Am I a trance medium? No. Have I got a gift psychically? Absolutely not. But I believe in the survival of consciousness after death.
- Dan Aykroyd
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I would so much like young people to have a sense of the gift that they are. Not many of them feel like that.
- John Denver
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I believe that we are here for each other, not against each other. Everything comes from an understanding that you are a gift in my life - whoever you are, whatever our differences.
- John Denver
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Giving is a really big thing around Christmas, as well it should be. Christmas is about giving, and it all stems from the greatest gift the world has ever received - the gift of Jesus Christ.
- Monica Johnson
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Fragrance is a very personal gift, and I think that's why it makes a great Christmas gift. There's a very distinct signature to it, so if you give it as a gift, I like to think that it's from a person that thinks very highly of you.
- Ryan Reynolds
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Some people write a thank you note for a gift, and it's three pages long, and some people write a thank you note, and it's five sentences - that's me. I like to pare away words because I don't want to waste anyone's time.
- Bill Callahan
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I'm really proud of 'The Gift.' There are stories we can all relate to - a first love that went wrong, a person who bullied us at school, a kind person we took for granted.
- Mel Giedroyc
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The Gift' doesn't deal with the neat, tie-me-up-with-a-bow kind of stories - they are grittier, messier, and not all of them have a happy resolution. You are following people and events that are more difficult, more elusive, and therefore harder to pin down.
- Mel Giedroyc
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My talent for playing the drums was a gift from God.
- Keith Thibodeaux
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But somehow I feel like still it's a gift, and I wonder, how can I give this gift to others? Just work hard, and do whatever I can do, to be that, and to return the love to the fans. I like to give them joy and smiles to them. Give back to them.
- Bai Ling
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I guess I feel like it's a gift to meet those talented artists like George Lucas and Oliver Stone, Spike Lee and Richard Kelly. Even if it's a small role, it's a gift to be working that closely with them.
- Bai Ling
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I thought that when you have more success that you'd feel more buoyed or feel more confident. But in fact my brain has the gift of switching it around and saying, 'Now people are expecting something. Now you're really going to let people down.'
- Maria Bamford
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The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.
- Julia Margaret Cameron
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Humans need to touch each other. We need to look at each other... We are human creatures, meant to be linked... So, yes, it's a gift for me to be able to look at somebody that I know or don't know, that I love or maybe not love, and to be able to connect.
- Sophie Gregoire Trudeau
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Each time somebody working for the Maison has a baby, the atelier creates miniature blouses-blanches, exactly like the ones we wear, with the child's name embroidered across the front. That is our welcome-to-this-world gift.
- Martin Margiela
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It seems I was born with the gift of knocking people out.
- Marcos Maidana
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Then all of a sudden, Quentin Tarantino comes along and puts a song from 40 years ago in one of his films and they've suddenly discovered you. That was a real gift that Quentin gave me.
- Nancy Sinatra
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I agree that a love of reading is a great gift for a parent to pass on to his or her child.
- Ann Brashares
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I never had worked in high fashion before, had never experienced it when I was a model before. I appreciate it, being able to work with such talented people; it feels like a gift now. I think for everyone everything happens at the right time, and this is my time.
- Saskia de Brauw
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