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A good newspaper is never good enough, but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever.

Good newspaper Lousy Joy forever
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Computers can never completely replace humans. They may become capable of artificial intelligence, but they will never master real stupidity.

Computers Replace humans Capable
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The rich can afford to be progressive. Poor people have reason to be afraid of the future.
Rich Afford Progressive Poor people
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Never say anything bad about a man until you’ve walked a mile in his shoes. By then he’s a mile away, you’ve got his shoes, and you can say whatever you want to.

Never say Bad Man Walked
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Hurry up! Do it – get it done. You got work to do. Don’t put this off and don’t take the long view. Life is today and tomorrow, and if you are lucky, may be next week.

Hurry up Work Life Today
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My God, rich people have the time to praise You if they want to, but the poor people are so busy, accept their work as praise because, my God, they don’t have time for everything.

My God Praise People Busy
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Sometimes I think I understand everything—then I regain consciousness.

Sometimes Understand everything Regain
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..life is a struggle, and if you should feel really happy, be patient: this will pass.
Life Struggle Feel Happy
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The living wander away, we don’t hear from them for months, years—but the dead move in with us to stay.

The living Hear Dead
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... you are never so smart again in a language learned in middle age nor so romantic, brave or kind.

You Never Language Middle age
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They did not weave their lives around yours. They had their own lives, which were mysterious to you.

Weave Live Around yours Mysterious
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What would people think?' Jesus said that people think all sorts of things. The human mind is like a cloud of gnats. Constant motion. That's why you have to look at the heart. 'Oh,' said Grandpa.

People think Jesus said Human mind
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I like animals, all animals. I wouldn't hurt a cat or a dog - or a chicken or a cow. And I wouldn't ask someone else to hurt them for me. That's why I'm a vegetarian.

Animals Ask Cat Chicken
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Dwarves are still the butt of jokes. It's one of the last bastions of acceptable prejudice.

Acceptable Butt Jokes Last
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I was fortunate enough to have an upbringing that made me more accepting of who I am.

Accepting Am Enough Fortunate
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So I won't say I'm lucky. I'm fortunate enough to find or attract very talented people. For some reason I found them, and they found me.

Attract Enough Find Fortunate
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I do not fault anyone else who makes choices to play characters that they wished they hadn't... Because at the end of the day, none of us are happy with our jobs all the time.

Anyone AnyoneElse Because Characters
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I like playing the guy on the sidelines. They have more fun.

Fun Guy Like More
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I love working with the same actors repeatedly. That happens a lot. It's kind of inevitable, especially if you work with the same writers and directors and you start to form a company of actors. You gravitate towards each other.

Actor Company Directors Each
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I don't socialize. I'm kind of a hermit. The life of an actor can be very lonely.
Actor Hermit Kind Life
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I spend my nights just sitting and reading a book and drinking my tea and walking my dog. That's about as exciting as my life gets.

About Book Dog Drinking
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My family had a habit of collecting creatures that didn't always want to be pets. The first animal I can remember was a Lab named Zoe.

Always Animal Collecting Creatures
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Bad guys are complicated characters. It's always fun to play them. You get away with a lot more. You don't have a heroic code you have to live by.

Always Away Bad BadGuys
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If you're not gonna tell the truth, then why start talking?

Tell Truth Start talking
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I don't like giving speeches. It makes me nervous.

Giving speech Nervous
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The thing I love about making movies is the peace of mind that I know I don't have to be perfect the first time. I can be perfect the second time or the third time.

Love Making movies Peace Mind
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Pride is not the worst of sins. In fact, it's one of the most interesting ones.

Pride Worst Sins Interesting ones
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When I'm not working on something, I seem to go through periods of depression. It helps to keep busy.

Working on Period Depression Keep busy
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I never used to believe in fate. I used to think you make your own life, and then you call it fate.

Believe Fate Think Own life
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I've become pretty philosophical about a lot of things, including death. It doesn't get to me.

Pretty Philosophical Things Death
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When you fall in love, and you're very young, you think that that's the love of your life. And maybe it is, but it usually doesn't turn out that way.
Fall In love Young Life
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I want to do what I can lend my talents to, but I want it to be as a human being and not as a two-dimensional character.

Talent Human being Character
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If there's an audience, I think they're going to expect me to be funny. But what if I'm not funny? What if I fail?

Audience Funny Fall
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Which one of us, anywhere in the world, doesn't yearn to be believed when the audience is watching?

World Yearn to Believe Watching
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I trust if your life is right, the right things will happen at the right time. If the chords are in harmony inside, I think other things will happen in the same way. That sounded highfalutin' to me once, but I believe it now.

Trust Your life Happen Right time
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When your mother gives you confidence about anything that you do, you carry that confidence with you.

Mother Confidence Anything Do
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The world is not based on fairness. Human beings can rise to fairness, can administer something that makes it fair or just. But that's not God.

The world Based on Fairness Human being
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If the physical thing you're doing is funny, you don't have to act funny while doing it...Just be real and it will be funnier

Physical thing Funny Be real
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I said something really stupid once. I told a friend that my mother was so beautiful, but my dad was ugly. My dad heard it and just laughed it off, but I felt guilty. It haunted me for years. I should never have said that.

Something really Beautiful
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I've had a very good life and a very good career. I have no regrets.

Good life Career Regret
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I like writing books. I'd rather be at home with my wife. I can write, take a break, come out, have a glass of tea, give my wife a kiss, and go back in and write some more. It's not so bad. I am really lucky.

Writing books At home Wife Glass
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I love acting, especially if it's a fantasy of some kind, where it's not just realistic, it's not naturalism.

Love acting Fantasy Kind Realistic
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I'm going to tell you what my religion is. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

Tell you Religion Do unto Others
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I write funny. If I can make my wife laugh, I know I'm on the right track.

Write funny Wife laugh Right track
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I'm funny on camera sometimes. In life, once in a while. Once in a while.
Funny Camera In life
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I never thought of it as God. I didn't know what to call it. I don't believe in devils, but demons I do because everyone at one time or another has some kind of a demon, even if you call it by another name, that drives them.

Never thought God Believe Devils
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'Game of Thrones' is an amazing show, and I have no problem speaking of the virtues of HBO.

Amazing Game GameOfThrones HBO
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I think if actors are successful at one thing, they paint themselves into a corner sometimes, and what's the fun in that?

Actor Corner Fun IThink
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I mean, there are some amazing storytelling being done on the small screen right now. That's what so cool about being in television right now. Studios, networks are starting to throw more resources, better writers, more production values... and to be part of that is awesome.

About Amazing Awesome Being
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Maybe everyone is a little too reassuring that things are going to be OK to college graduates. It gives them a false sort of security.

College Everyone False Gives
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