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Growing up an only child with a single parent is probably why I'm an actor.
Actor Child Growing Growing Up
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If I had a normal job and had been moving up, I'd be management level now.

Been Had Job Level
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I've made out more this season on a family-friendly show than ever in my actual life.

Actual Ever Life Made
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Some people think my father was a spy, because of working for that government agency in Vietnam, but he can't find his car keys, much less keep a national secret.

Agency Because Car Car Keys
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The parts for women, you're either like the quietly suffering wife or the wild girl.
Either Girl Like Parts
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You want the story to end when it's supposed to and not be squeezed for somebody's financial gain.

End Financial Gain Somebody
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It's great to have an acting job in the age of Reality TV.

Acting Age Great Job
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The thing I don't like on television is when somebody does something that makes absolutely no sense just for the shock of it.

Absolutely Does Just Like
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I'm nice, and I show up on time.

Nice Show Time Up
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One of the things I like about the show is it redefines the idea of what it is to be a mother, which at its most basic level is to take care of a child. It doesn't mean you have to look like the ladies in the Lysol commercials.

About Basic Care Child
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Perspective is the most important thing to have in life.

Important Important Thing Life Most
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Texting is not flirting, if you don't care about me enough to say the words than that's not love, I don't like it!

About Care Don't Care Enough
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Personally, all I ever want to be wearing are jeans.
Ever Jeans Personally Want
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I've dated people who I thought were going to be a big deal in my life, and I've also spent long periods by myself.

Also Big Big Deal Dated
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While I very much wanted to be in a relationship, I didn't want to be in the wrong one.

Much Relationship Very Want
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My mother had lived in London since I was little, so she never got to see my school plays and stuff.

Got Had Little Lived
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I would like to be part of a family, however that looks. Family is really important to me.

Family However Important Like
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When the creator of the show is gone, the actors end up being the people who have been there the longest.

Actor Been Being Creator
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None of my characters have really had jobs.

Characters Had Jobs None
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All TV shows are basically part of the same storyline.

Basically Part Same Shows
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I just don't know that a TV show demands a movie ending.

Demands Ending Just Know
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The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America.

America Enlightenment Reason Schools
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The idea of an afterlife where you can be reunited with loved ones can be immensely consoling - though not to me.

Afterlife Consoling Idea Immensely
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I didn't have a very starry school career, I was medium to above average, nothing special.

Above Average Career Medium
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Science coverage could be improved by the recognition that science is timeless, and therefore science stories should not need to be pegged to an item in the news.

Could Coverage Improved Item
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The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can always do it better, find the exact word, the apt phrase, the leaping simile.

Always Apt Beautiful Better
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You seldom get a censorship attempt from a 14-year-old boy. It's the adults who get upset.

Adult Attempt Boy Censorship
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I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence.

Adolescence Alone Always Had
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I simply write with an intelligent reader in mind. I don't think about how old they are.

About How Intelligent Mind
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I had my bully, and it was excruciating. Not only the bully, but the intimidation I felt.

Bully Excruciating Felt Had
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Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt 'safe' there.

Always Bleak Family Family Life
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I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer.

Aunts Believe Books Could
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I take real people and put them in extraordinary situations.
Extraordinary People Put Real
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I can't remember a time when I wasn't trying to get something down on paper.

Down Get Paper Remember
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My dream was to be known as a writer and to be able to produce at least one book that would be read by people. That dream came true with the publication of my first novel - and all the rest has been a sweet bonus.

Able At Least One Been Bonus
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A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence.

Believe Delusion Despite Evidence
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Scientists disagree among themselves but they never fight over their disagreements. They argue about evidence or go out and seek new evidence. Much the same is true of philosophers, historians and literary critics.

About Among Argue Critics
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Evolution never looks to the future.
Evolution Future Looks Never
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I have often said that I am a passionate Darwinian when it comes to explaining why we exist.

Am Darwinian Exist Explaining
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Something pretty mysterious had to give rise to the origin of the universe.
Give Had Mysterious Origin
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How can you take seriously someone who likes to believe something because he finds it 'comforting'?

Because Believe Comforting Finds
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We've all been brought up with the view that religion has some kind of special privileged status. You're not allowed to criticise it.

Allowed Been Brought Criticise
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I suppose I'm a cultural Anglican, and I see evensong in a country church through much the same eyes as I see a village cricket match on the village green. I have a certain love for it.

Anglican Certain Church Country
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The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.

Longest way Close Gloomiest night
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

Bitterest tears Over graves Words Unsaid
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When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you until it seems that you cannot hold on for a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time when the tide will turn.

Tight place Goes against Cannot hold Give up
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..the heart has no tears to give,--it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.

Heart No tears Only blood Silence
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Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.

Common sense Seeing things Doing Ought to
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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.

The truth Kindest Give folks
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Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good not to do harm.

Impossible Person No good Harm
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