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I wasn't a kid growing up thinking, 'One day I'll get an Oscar and make a speech.' That wasn't on my mind.

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My sisters are stronger and my brother's bigger than me.

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Girls are soft and pretty.
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Through my films I'm eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don't know if I'm ever going to get there, but I'm slowly letting pieces of myself out there and then maybe by the time I'm 85, I'll look back and say, 'All right, that about sums it up.'

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I prefer musicals, because I am the best dancer who ever lived. The best plies, the best sashays, and by far the best-smelling Capezios.

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God gave me some weird, beautiful scent that makes men and women go crazy. People compare it to Carvel. It is a whale of a smell.

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When I take my kid to school, all the parents stop and stare.

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My father used to wear the same pants for like a week.

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I read to my kid, but I can't stand reading.
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It's nice when little teams win.

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I've always wanted to do a family movie.

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I can handle pain.

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I'm not great at bedtime stories. Bedtime stories are supposed to put the kid to sleep. My kid gets riled up and then my wife has to come in and go, 'All right! Get out of the room.'

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When the kids are laughing in the audience, I tear up, I'm so happy I did a nice thing.

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My name is Adam Sandler. I'm not particularly talented. I'm not particularly good-looking. And yet I'm a multi-millionaire.

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Kids end up seeing my movies anyway but some of the mothers get mad at me so I figured I'd make one that I can't get yelled at for.

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I've always had lots of friends and my house was the house they all hung out at.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.

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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.

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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand.

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Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.

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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.

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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.

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The facts are always less than what really happened.

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I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.
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People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.

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Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.

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A desert is a place without expectation.
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From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.

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Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.

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If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.
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The world is always in movement.
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What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully.

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Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.

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I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.

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I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.

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This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.
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But everything of value about me is in my books.

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Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn't fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will - with luck - come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise.

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That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.

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All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.

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The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.

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The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.

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I will say I am the sum of my books.
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Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it. I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.

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