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I like writers who can show me worlds I know nothing about, but my favorites are those who create characters or worlds which feel realistic and familiar to me, or who can make me feel inspired.

Writers Show Worlds Favorites
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Books can capture injustices in a way that stays with you and makes you want to do something about them. That's why they are so powerful.

Books Capture Injustices Stays
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What I get a bit angry about is the image of women.

Get Angry Image Women
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I distracted myself from the fear and terrorism by thinking about things like how the universe began and whether time travel is possible.

Distracted Fear Terrorism Thinking
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For my brothers it was easy to think about the future. They can be anything they want. But for me it was hard and for that reason I wanted to become educated and empower myself with knowledge.

Brothers Think Easy Future
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The Spirit of prayer makes us so intimate with God that we scarcely pass through an experience before we speak to Him about it, either in supplication, in sighing, in pouring out our woes before Him, in fervent requests, or in thanksgiving and adoration.

Spirit Prayer Makes God
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Why should I care about posterity? What's posterity ever done for me.

Why Care Posterity Done
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A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.

About Everybody Hear How
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I don't think anyone knows as much about what's right for me as I do.

About Anyone Knows Me
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It's hard to be someone that people talk about and write about, you know? They don't know me.

About Hard Know Me
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What can I say without talking about the love I have for you my blood, I don’t wanna say anything much but to say God bless you more

Say Talking Love Blood
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People are constantly asking me if I'm pregnant, but I don't like to talk about it too much. I just think about it as the next phase. We'll see.

About Asking Constantly Just
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I am very insecure about my looks, and I always have been because of being mixed race.

About Always Am Because
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Some of us talk about other people and what they do and la la la. But I'm not that person.

About La Other People
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Life presents you a choice daily, your ability to choose right is about knowing who you are and having a sense of your journey and your desired destination.

Life Presents Life Presents Choice
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Dependence is not patriotism. A man does not love his mother if he hangs about her to the point of burdening her with a weak, feckless son.
About Dependence Does He
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If not for the fact that we have a weak, corrupt, incompetent & cowardly FG who do not give a damn about our people this would not be happening. Under Buhari Nigerians were sold into slavery in Libya, killed in South Africa, vilified in Britain and treated like scum in China.

Sold Weak Incompetent Cowardly
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I swear I only want to hear about you, to know what you've been doing. It's a hundred years since we've met-it may be another hundred before we meet again.

Swear Hear Hundred=years Meet
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The only way to not think about money is to have a great deal of it.

Think Money Great Deal
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They stood together in the gloom of the spruces, an empty world glimmering about them wide and gray under the stars

Gloom Spruces Empty-world Glimmering
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Destiny, or karma, depends upon what the soul has done about what it has become aware of.

Destiny Karma Soul Done
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Actually, we have no problems-we have opportunities for which we should give thanks... An error we refuse to correct has many lives. It takes courage to face one's own shortcomings and wisdom to do something about them.

Opportunities Thanks Courage Wisdom
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There's always ways of motivating yourself to higher levels. Write about it, dream about it. But after that, turn it into action. Don't just dream.

Action After Always Dream
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I have worn myself thin trying to find out about this comet, and I know very little now in the matter.

About Comet Find Know
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She was deeply passionate about the sacred feminine.

About Deeply Feminine Sacred
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I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men.

About Alone Cave Courage
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Yesterday I had a Shaker visitor, and today a Catholic; and the more I see and hear, the less do I care about church doctrines.

About Care Catholic Church
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The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.

About Always Aware Composer
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I love everybody. One of the great things about me is that I have a very positive attitude.

About Attitude Everybody Great
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I beg Osama to stop warring. He is a Muslim, and Islam means peace. Nobody wins in a war... I wish I were tapped in the problem about Iraq. I knew Saddam enough that I could have talked him into surrendering. But it's too late.

About Beg Could Enough
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The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival.

About Am Damn Democracy
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People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

About Flowers Joy Mad
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About the trees my arms I wound; Like one going mad I hugged the ground; I raised my quivering arms on high; I laughed and laughed into the sky.

Trees Hugged Ground Quivering
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I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology.

About Am Hate I Am
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I don't know about whether I thought I would make it this big.

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I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.

About Arts Because Business
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Not a day has gone by in my life when I haven't thought about death.
About Day Death Gone
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I had a bad conscience until I discovered that having a bad conscience about something so gravely serious as leaving your children is an affectation, a way of achieving a little suffering that can't for a moment be equal to the suffering you've caused.

About Achieving Bad Caused
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I have written a lot about the fine arts, but I'd never written about the literary arts, and so on some level Dante really, you know, spoke to me, as new ground but also familiar ground.

Familiar Ground Spoke Level
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Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.

About Culture Everything Makes
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I've been through a lot. I've thought a lot about life, and I've spent a lot of time studying history and science.

About Been History Life
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It's not about what you tell the reader, it's about what you conceal.

Conceal About Reader Tell
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It's very difficult to be objective about yourself and your own circumstances, but one thing I do know about is that I grew up surrounded by storytellers.

About Circumstances Difficult Grew
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I don't really think about genre. I like to write books that I'd love to read myself.

Books Genre Like Love
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I love to learn, and at some level, there's something to learn from my books. And I love art and philosophy, so there's something philosophical about my fiction.

Art Books Fiction Learn
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I dream about doing a film about once a week.

About Doing Dream Film
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Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.

About Construction Creating Father
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People ask what are my intentions with my films - my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually give an evasive answer: I try to tell the truth about the human condition, the truth as I see it. This answer seems to satisfy everyone, but it is not quite correct.

About Aims Answer Ask
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Don't talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules.
About Dear Make Me
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When I was young, I was extremely scared of dying. But now I think it a very, very wise arrangement. It's like a light that is extinguished. Not very much to make a fuss about.

About Arrangement Dying Extremely
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