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  • 00:14

    When I graduated, 45 years ago, I was the first woman in my family to earn a college

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    degree.

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    My mother never finished high school.

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    She got married at 18 and had her first child two years later.

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    Neither of my grandmothers, or great-grandmothers, went to collage.

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    In their society, at the time, it just wasn’t done.

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    My paternal grandmother, however, did run away from Texas and worked in a bank in order

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    to put her sister through college.

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    My two sisters never went to college.

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    So being here today has an extra special significance for me.

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    I just want to mention briefly why I happened to end up at William & Mary.

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    I won’t go into the complexities of the story, but suffice it to say that the first

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    time I saw this campus was in the late 60’s when I sprinted off the girls’ bus, in my

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    cheery travel uniform, as a member of a singing group for which I wrote songs and performed

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    for five years after high school.

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    The show was the offshoot of a cult-like group that my parents fell prey to when I was 7-years-old.

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    Once off the bus, we enthusiastically set up our mics and speakers in the old Student

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    Rec Center on Dog Street, and proceeded to sing our hearts out for whatever students

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    paused to listen.

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    As I sang the simplistic songs and did the regimented choreography, I studied the students

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    who were lounging on the furniture or leaning against the walls and there came a moment

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    when I knew that I had to somehow leave the group and come get my education here.

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    And you want to know why?

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    It was because, almost to a person, they were looking at us like this …

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    as if they were thinking — “Really?”

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    That’s what I’d been secretly feeling for a long, long time, but I hadn’t had

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    the courage to face it and do something about it.

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    “Really?

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    Is this who I really am?"

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    Somehow, in spite of my ignorance, I sensed that on this campus, I would find kindred

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    souls.

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    So eventually, against their wishes, and with no encouragement, whatsoever, I left the group

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    and, 49 years ago, I entered The College of William & Mary in Virginia, a 22 year-old

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    clueless freshman, with an essentially empty toolbox and a passionate determination to

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    get a liberal arts education and become an actress.

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    That fateful September, I walked into Phi Beta Kappa Hall and auditioned for the first

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    play being staged that season —Twelfth Night.

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    Professor Howard Scammon, head of the Theater Department, cast me in one of the principal

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    roles: Olivia.

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    He eventually understood the seriousness of my intent and was my mentor for the four years

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    I was here.

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    Meanwhile, I soaked up everything I could learn and, like a desert when the rains come,

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    for the first time in my life I started to bloom.

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    The rest is history.

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    I wanted to tell you about why I ended up here because I have learned how important

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    it is to have a healthy dose of skepticism.

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    I don’t mean cynicism or contempt, I mean the crucial ability to question and assess

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    — from a dispassionate, objective point of view — whatever beliefs or tribes you

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    eventually choose to espouse.

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    It doesn’t come to me naturally.

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    I had been raised to be a total believer, to not question.

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    But for me, coming into this ideas-rich community, having had all my beliefs and behaviors dictated

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    to me from the age of 7, it was vital that I learn how to question.

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    You have a much harder time of it now than I ever had.

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    When I graduated, there was no Internet.

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    You wrote your papers on typewriters!

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    There was no Facebook, Twitter or Instagram.

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    I didn’t have the added, enormous pressure of social media against which to develop as

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    an adult.

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    I think my mind would have exploded.

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    I didn’t have that insistent, seductive noise in my pocket and at my fingertips.

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    Even now, I try to question, but how do I maintain my individuality without thinking

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    that I am somehow not relevant, not hip enough, rich enough, not posting enough, that I don’t

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    have enough followers?

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    What each of you have, and what you must believe in from this day forward, is your inherent

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    uniqueness.

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    Your singular point of view.

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    No one looks out onto the world through your eyes.

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    Your perspective is unique.

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    It’s important and it counts.

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    Try not to compare it to anyone else.

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    Accept it.

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    Believe in it.

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    Nurture it.

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    Stay fiercely, joyously connected to the friends you have made here, to those you love and

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    trust.

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    You will have each other’s backs for the rest of your lives.

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    I wish I were funny like Robin Williams.

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    I wish I could make you laugh so hard you’d fall off your chairs.

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    I’m not wise.

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    I have had the lucky chance to learn by doing.

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    After being in my profession for 45 years, though, I have learned a few things that I

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    want to briefly share with you today.

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    In order to inhabit a character I have had to find where we share a common humanity.

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    I can’t do characters justice if I am judging them.

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    I have to find a way to love them.

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    The exploration into each character I play has made me a more tolerant and empathetic

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    person.

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    I have had to literally imagine myself in someone else’s shoes, looking out of someone

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    else’s eyes.

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    I urge you to learn how to do that.

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    You can with practice.

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    Start by being curious about the “whys” of someone’s behavior.

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    Before you judge someone, before you write them off, take the time to put yourself in

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    their shoes and see how it feels.

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    I have been a part of collaborative companies of actors and directors for 45 years.

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    Companies are like living organisms, extremely sensitive to the chemistry, to the contributions

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    of all those involved.

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    When I was in a Broadway musical early in my career, my dressing room was right next

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    to the stage door.

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    I wasn’t the star, but I was a co-star and I was working my ass off every night to squeeze

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    all there was to squeeze out of what was a pretty thankless role.

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    It was hard work.

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    The play was a big hit, which was fabulous, but every performance I would empty myself

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    out, emotionally and physically, onstage and every night I could hear the producers come

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    in the Stage Door and pass by my dressing room, on their way up to schmooze the star.

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    It really hurt that they never knocked on my door, not to schmooze or hang out, but

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    to simply say thank you for the hard work — eight shows a week — for which they

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    were reaping huge benefits.

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    I remember that hurt and because of it, when I am the member of a company, especially if

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    I am leading that company, I am careful to notice everyone on the team, learn about what

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    they do and thank them.

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    People like the craft-service guy on a movie set, who gets up earlier than everyone else

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    and leaves the set after everyone else, who hauls heavy urns of coffee and food from location

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    to location, rain or shine.

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    To be aware of and to sincerely appreciate the contributions of everyone on a team makes

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    a palpable difference.

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    Then there is kindness.

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    My nephew, Calen, lives with schizophrenia.

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    He had his first psychotic break when he was 17.

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    My sister, Jessie, Calen’s mom, lives with bipolar disorder.

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    Ten years ago, we founded an organization called Bring Change to Mind to fight against

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    the stigma around mental illness because they found that stigma is as hard — sometimes

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    harder — than the diseases themselves.

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    We decided to talk about mental illness and stigma on a national platform.

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    Jessie and Calen were inconceivably courageous, because 10 years ago, not many people were

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    talking about it.

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    The fact is that, conservatively, one in six of us in this room is touched in some way

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    by mental illness.

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    It makes absolutely no sense to me that we don’t talk about it like any other chronic

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    illness.

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    Starting the conversation is the first step.

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    Two days ago, I was with Calen, in front of 2,000 people, listening to him talk about

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    living with something as scary as schizophrenia.

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    I am astounded by how he has willed himself to manage his illness.

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    He spoke, albeit sometimes hesitantly, searching for words without losing his train of thought,

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    talking with grace and knowledge.

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    Someone from the audience asked him what they should do when confronted with someone who

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    is struggling with mental health issues and Calen simply said, “Be kind.”

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    Kindness.

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    It’s a simple word, but it is essential if we are to survive as a species on this

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    planet.

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    So I come to another thing I’ve learned.

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    I learned, from reading the writings of the great Edward O. Wilson, that one of the core

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    reasons we have been so successful as a species is that we evolved the capacity to empathize.

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    That means that the tribes who espoused empathy were more successful at survival than the

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    ones who didn’t.

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    In order for the community, the tribe, to survive and thrive, we humans had to evolve

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    the ability to register the emotions, the plight, the fears and the needs of other members

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    of our tribe and to respond to them with empathy.

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    We die without connection.

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    Nothing is worse for us humans than to be bereft of community.

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    Empathy evolved because two eyes looked into two eyes.

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    It’s the most immediate and powerful way we humans communicate.

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    Empathy evolved because we looked at each other, face to face, not on a screen.

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    Studies have shown that the farther away we get from two eyes looking into two eyes, the

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    harder it is to empathize.

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    What I have learned is that if we are to remain a free and viable society, we need to spend

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    less time looking at screens and more time looking into each other’s eyes.

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    To end, I thought I’d share with you bits of a letter that somehow got to me from an

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    old William & Mary friend.

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    I wrote it to him 42 years ago, when I had been out in the world for three years.

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    Reading it from where I am now in my life and in my career was quite moving.

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    I wrote:

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    My mind has been all over the place because of a very erratic rehearsal schedule.

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    I did get the part of Estelle in The Rose Tattoo and am right now of the frame of mind

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    that I should never have taken it.

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    The scene is over before it starts.

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    There is no time to really make any kind of statement.

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    … any kind of progression.

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    So one has to enter as a totally interesting and real person, be on for five minutes and

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    leave.

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    I really hate it, but I suppose it’s a good exercise of sorts.

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    I’m just at the despairing stage and am feeling totally untalented.

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    … Oh, well.

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    To maintain any semblance of wit and equilibrium seems to be a major feat.

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    As life unfolds before me, I have more and more respect for anyone who survives and prevails.

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    Just to endure is impressive enough, but to endure and to triumph — on your own terms

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    — is the feat of a lifetime.

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    Everyone needs so much gentleness and love.

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    I don’t mean that idealistically; I mean it as a major means of survival.

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    There is just too much working against sanity and civilization.

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    … from within ourselves, to the differences between people and sexes … to the whole

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    human comedy.

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    Gentleness and love.

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    I can forget so easily, but it’s always a great comfort to come back to.

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    I’m going to cook a hamburger and some zucchini.

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    Thank you.

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Use "enough" in a sentence | "enough" example sentences

How to use "enough" in a sentence?

  • To be loved, we have to love ourselves. Only when we love ourselves do we have enough love to give away. By giving love we then receive love.
    -David Wolfe-
  • If you truly love someone, you're going to be pure because true love comes from God, and God tells us to remain pure. That's good enough for me.
    -Jon Foreman-
  • I've always been clever enough to surround myself with the best in whatever field I'm working in... Good people make you look good.
    -Maggie Tabberer-
  • Luck plays an enormous role in trading success. Some people were lucky enough to be born smart, while others were even smarter and got born lucky.
    -Ed Seykota-
  • When you’re as charming and physically attractive as myself, it’s easy enough to win over people you meet. But getting strangers to love you...now, that’s the trick.
    -John Green-
  • His smile was bright and sweet and hot enough to melt solid steel. "Is this the part where I kiss you?" "If you like." "Oh," he said, "I like.
    -Rachel Caine-
  • Knowing that we should love is not enough. But when knowledge is applied through service, love can secure for us the blessings of heaven.
    -David B. Haight-
  • Most of us want to have enough... good works to get into heaven, but enough bad works to be fun.
    -Rick Warren-

Definition and meaning of ENOUGH

What does "enough mean?"

/iˈnəf/

adjective
Sufficient to answer the need.
adverb
To a satisfactory degree.
determiner
as much or many as required.
pronoun
as much or many as required.

What are synonyms of "enough"?
Some common synonyms of "enough" are:
  • sufficient,
  • adequate,
  • ample,
  • abundant,

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What are antonyms of "enough"?
Some common antonyms of "enough" are:
  • insufficient,

You can find detailed definitions of them on this page.