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Personally I don't think solving corruption is such a big problem.

Big Big Problem Corruption Personally
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Cross-cultural marriage is difficult, especially when one person has to live in another country. But I thought there was a very good chance of it working because people grow together if they have a common passion.

Another Because Chance Common
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I have fruit trees. Cows for fresh milk, yoghurt. My own wheat. I'm basically self-sufficient.

Basically Cows Fresh Fruit
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I am basically a private person.

Am Basically I Am Person
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It was around the summer of 1982 when the drug problem really impacted. It became a lifestyle rather than a recreation. When you start lying and stealing, you cannot con yourself you're in control any more.

Any Around Became Cannot
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I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just write the book that I would want to read. And I put on the blinders, and I really - it is, for me, that simple.

Simple Blinders Read Book
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Mother was actually a great doer and organizer. All the special occasions were directed by mother.

Actually Directed Doer Great
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The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are not going to necessarily prescribe to that, they'll write what they feel.

Actually Create Establishment Feel
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I'm fascinated by power, especially veiled power. Shadow power. The National Security Agency. The National Reconnaissance Office. Opus Dei. The idea that everything happens for reasons we're not quite seeing.

Agency Everything Fascinated Happens
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The only thing I consider appalling would be to suddenly become a vegetable and a burden on other people. A soul slowly dying out, trapped in a body in which the insides gradually sabotage me - that, I think, would be terrifying.

Appalling Become Body Burden
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I still get up every morning at 4 A.M. I write seven days a week, including Christmas. And I still face a blank page every morning, and my characters don't really care how many books I've sold.

Blank Face Books Care
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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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It's like nothing's really happening. Our culture is almost dead.
Almost Culture Dead Happening
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I write slowly. I actually write quickly, but I throw out so much material.

Actually Material Much Out
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Historically, men have a hard time getting onboard with feminism, but I think that's changing.

Changing Feminism Getting Hard
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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 personally believe that our planet would be absolutely fine without religion, and I also feel we are evolving in that direction.

Believe Fine Direction Feel
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Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.

Aggressive Constructive Destructive Human
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We always regret that we did not ask our parents more, really get to know them while they were alive.

Alive Always Ask Did
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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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I am normally afraid of birds and have never dreamt of any bird in my life.
Afraid Am Any Bird
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.

Audience Cry Crying Really
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The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.

Actually Becomes Begins Between
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A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

Basically Good Good Writer Mankind
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The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.

Anything Business Except Forgive
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Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.

Burden Freedom Lost Never
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No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

Another Any Bewildered Considerable
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… Love is actually a means or target you want to reach.

Love Target Want Reach
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I have more artistic control in a smaller show. But it doesn't really matter. Sometimes you can have the smallest role in the smallest production and still make a big impact.

Artistic Big Big Impact Control
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It's a very terrible thing to be Maria Callas, because it's a question of trying to understand something you can never really understand.

Because Maria Never Question
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The sad part about our past is that religions, ironically enough, are responsible for creating the most destructive idea that has ever been visited upon the human race: the idea that there is such a thing as 'better.'

About Been Better Creating
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One thing that frightens leaders and lead them to a number of excesses is usually fear of death. No leader should fear death. In fact, you should accept the fact that from the moment of leadership you are sacrificed to death.

Leaders Frightens Death Excesses
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As told in Friendship with God, if we simply decided to believe and act as if first, we're all one, and second, life is eternal, it would render virtually everything we've done all our lives pointless.

Act AllOurLives Believe Decided
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It'll become obvious that we've really been working against ourselves.

Against Become Been Obvious
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I think that things happen individually first, and then collectively. It's not the other way around.

Around Collectively First Happen
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And we're seeing a higher level of consciousness and many more opportunities for people to challenge their present ways of thinking and move into a grander and larger experience of who they really are.

Challenge Consciousness Experience Grander
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Science is basically an inoculation against charlatans.
Against Basically Charlatans Science
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…Human nature is basically exploratory. That which you seek to hide is that which the world seeks to discover.

Human-nature Exploratory Seek Hide
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Life is meaningless, especially if you cannot use your God-given potential to affect your environment positively.

Life Meaningless God-given Potential
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Impossible is nothing!…the word itself literally says ‘I’m possible’….Try a little harder and push past whatever pain is in your way. You’re enough.

Impossible Word Possible Harder
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Oftentimes you’re not actually sad… You just need money! Secure that first!
Oftentimes Sad Need Money
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When you stop taking things personally and start looking at them with logic, you have reached a dangerous level of freedom and unlimited happiness.
Stop Things Personally Logic
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Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Happiness Virtue Happiest Best
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I believe Philippe Coutinho is a player who would totally fit in Barcelona.

Barcelona Believe Fit I Believe
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I read a great deal as a child. A lot of children go through a phase of reading in a literally voracious way. It is their primary imaginative activity. Maybe that's an experience which is not so common any more with the presence of television in every home.

Activity Any Child Children
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I really don't believe in magic.
Believe Magic Really Don't
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I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.

Dreams Expected I Write Just
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Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Power Characteristically Calmness Strength
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No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn't sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours' writing. Nothing.

Business Business Side Couple Extra
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There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.

Felt Had Head Lone
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