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There will people along the way who will try to undercut your success or take credit for your accomplishments or your fame, but if you just focus on the work and you don’t let those people sidetrack you, someday when you get where you're going you'll look around and you'll know that it was you and the people who love you who put you there, and that will be the greatest feeling in the world.

— Taylor Swift

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If you listen to my albums, it's like reading my diary.

To me, fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

To me, fearless is not the absence of fear.

I stay up too late; that's what people say.

No matter what happens in life, be good to people.

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