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An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.

Autobiography Distort Facts Fiction
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Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

Achievement Born Great Great Achievement
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I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment

About Charming Friends Had
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I really wasn't equipped to be a writer when I left Oxford. But then I set out to learn. I've always had the highest regard for the craft. I've always felt it was work.

Always Craft Equipped Felt
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It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually.

About Attractive Begin Being
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Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.

Consciousness Delight Focused Gift
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Nigerians are naturally aggressive towards their business, but tend to be docile towards their government. However, hunger is gradually eroding their docility.

Nigerian Business Aggressive Docile
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Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.

Better Hard Much People
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It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.

Anything Funny Nobody Practically
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What I like best is a book that's at least funny once in a while. What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.

Author Best Book Call
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Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.

Always Emotions Personally Poets
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I don't really deeply feel that anyone needs an airtight reason for quoting from the works of writers he loves, but it's always nice, I'll grant you, if he has one.

Always Anyone Deeply Feel
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The beginning of a book is always the hardest part for me. I'm a Chapter 3 kind of writer, which means I naturally start at Chapter 3.

Always Beginning Book Chapter
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I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.

About Am Any Backed
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I had a pretty public divorce. They're not easy - divorces - and it took me a long time to really get through.

Nas
Divorce Divorces Easy Get
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Hip-hop is really standoffish. It's really competitive and it's really about who's number one all the time. Sometimes it gets out of hand.

Nas
About Competitive Gets Hand
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Write out the story - rapidly, fluently, and not too critically - following the second or narrative-order synopsis. Change incidents and plot whenever the developing process seems to suggest such change, never being bound by any previous design.

Any Being Bound Change
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When I say 'hip-hop is dead,' basically, America is dead. There is no political voice. Music is dead.

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America Basically Dead Hip Hop
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Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.

Comparison Disease Fatal First
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So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech.

Amendment Amendment Rights Book Comic
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Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.
Future Truth Evaluate Work
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Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.

All The Facts Big Dreams Facts
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Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine

Future Truth Evalute Accomplishment
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We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.

About Be Happy Comfort Constantly
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For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

Acquired Along Better Enough
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I really forget that I have no arms or legs sometimes.

Arms Forget Legs Really
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I'm officially disabled, but I'm truly enabled because of my lack of limbs. My unique challenges have opened up unique opportunities to reach so many in need.

Because Challenges Disabled Lack
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The Human spirit and faith is not usually being challenged by the predictable and the routine but by the overwhelming and the uncertain.

Human spirit Faith Uncertain Routine
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There are five freedoms: The freedom to see and hear what is; The freedom to say what you feel and think; The freedom to feel what you actually feel; The freedom to ask for what you want; The freedom to take risks on your own behalf

Freedom See Hear Feel
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Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.

Terrorism Easy Participating
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How did Nigeria get to the point where our leaders don’t really care? For most of them, it's only about money.

Nigeria Leaders Money Care
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Plays close, movies wrap and TV series eventually get cancelled, and we were cancelled in three season.

Season Series Close Movies
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I'm especially concerned about the future of this country, because I'm concerned about the gay people of the future. We need to ensure their good life by registering to vote.

Life People Future About
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Some men are like oak leaves -- they don't know when they're dead, but still hang right on; and there are others who let go before anything has really touched them.

Men Dead Hang Right
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But some people, and especially very young people, don’t think anything’s worth believing unless it’s hard to believe.
People Think Young
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When a man makes a specialty of knowing how some other fellow ought to spend his money, he usually thinks in millions and works for hundreds.

Man Fellow Money
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Every fellow is really two men -- what he is and what he might be; and you're never absolutely sure which you're going to bury till he's dead.

Might Reality Men Absolutely
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Usually I am not a conspiracy theorist. I don't believe in the Bilderbergers as a conspiracy or the Trilateralists. But I am certain that the Communists killed JFK. There is a super great book called 'Legend' by Edward Jay Epstein that makes it all perfectly clear.

Am Believe Book Certain
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As Beverly Hills becomes more Iranian-Jewish, it is becoming politically conservative.
Becomes Becoming Beverly BeverlyHills
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My 'thing' is that I just lie in my immense bed and look out the window at the skyline over Virginia and the sky and the airplanes coming into Reagan. I really love doing that.

Airplane Bed Coming Doing
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Around people I don't know, I'm totally at a loss.

Around Know Loss People
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What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning.

Beings Challenges Drama Earth
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I keep a lighter in my back pocket all the time. I'm not a smoker, I just really like certain songs.

Back Certain Just Keep
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I love catching a snapshot of something that is just about to happen. Or maybe something that just happened, you know. But I like especially that just-before kind of feeling.

About Catching Feeling Happen
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Specifically in stand-up, I love jokes. I love short, structured ideas and a punchline.

I Love Ideas Jokes Love
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Usually, I walk around and think about things. When I come across a thought that makes me laugh, I write it down.

About Across Around Come
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I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all.
About Ambitious Any IWish
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What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.

Crazy Equally Exciting Match
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I'd started going to acting classes at 14, played 'Medea' at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.

Acting ActingClasses Actress Classes
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I also have intense relationships with furniture... probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.

Also Because Furniture Growing
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