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hey patch pose we're here at the LA
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Times
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were over 150,000 literary lovers
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University of Southern California campus
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every year this is our best event of the
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year we love it here people are awesome
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everybody is interesting to talk to I'm
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here on ders not just to do business I
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like talking to interesting people I
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always find cool candidates ugly I come
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to the book fair to get some free books
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it has like different speakers and and
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then I Eike Eike learn it inspires me I
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love books I usually call it you know
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this is my Disneyland of the year we
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came out actually to see one book into
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particular it's called Presley and
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Jessica it's a story about a husband and
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wife
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we're in the Boston Marathon many bombs
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went off a few years ago I'm here today
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to go I have a published answer get some
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news you never get right behind me
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Leilani she's you're putting her new
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healthy comfort food combining
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you've got the eating and soul food and
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things she likes to eat
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first off I'm a reader I mean and I come
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at this as a as a reader in the readers
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perspective so I mean I've read since I
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was a kid my parents claim that I taught
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myself how to read when I was 2 or 3 I
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don't know what the veracity of that
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claim is but the book I remember really
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loving first and foremost my dad would
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claim was the Lorax what I always wanted
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that before axe read to me but I liked
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the Golden Compass
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are you ready because we want our
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daughter to read more and we enjoy
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teaching her to read and getting her to
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read more we loved literacy we promote
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reading we're all about about reading
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and this is a fabulous festival that we
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are participating in
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I started writing when I was 8 years old
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under the covers with a flashlight
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you have to write sometimes it's not
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something you choose something chooses
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you it's a way to funnel your emotions
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so they don't explode or so you don't
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end up in another situation that's way
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more negative I was in a very small 8th
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grade classroom and there was one clique
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of boys and you were hand around and I
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was out and then I realized I sort of
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had a mind shift where I said I'm not
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the problem they're the problem and
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that's really what this book is all
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about it's about being happy to be
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yourself it's a story of my son Dan who
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was a young photojournalist who's an
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artist he was an adventurer he was a
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passionate creative activist who was
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killed tragically at the age of 22 in
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Somalia when he was covering a story dan
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we discovered left behind 20 journalists
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of his work and it's really inspired a
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lot of people around the world to
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believe there's something more to their
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lives than just love maybe what they've
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anticipated it causes people to reach
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back into
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and stretch a little further all have
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that spark as a myriad of hacktivists
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witness that we can use not only for
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ourselves but also for others
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The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books is the largest book festival in the U.S., hosting more than 150,000 attendees annually on the iconic - and stunning - University of Southern California campus. At a festival where attendees see their favorite celebrities at the local Starbucks, one stood out: "Food for Life" author Laila Ali, who, as a TV Four-time World Boxing Champion, TV Host and Mom made you almost forget boxing is the family sport.
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