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I think a lot of stuff I find funny is from day dreaming.
Day Dreaming Find Funny
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There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
Kinds Lies Statistics Three
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I didn't want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that's a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I'm proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it.

Ability Be Humble Became Countries
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I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life.

Assumed Be Different Because Different
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I'm not a fast thinker, but once I am interested in something, I am doing it for many years.

Am Doing Fast I Am
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You have to be practical. So every time I say, if you want to write a novel you have to be practical, people get bored. They are disappointed. They are expecting a more dynamic, creative, artistic thing to say. What I want to say is: you have to be practical.

Artistic Bored Creative Disappointed
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Team sports aren't my thing. I find it easier to pick something up if I can do it at my own speed. And you don't need a partner to go running, you don't need a particular place, like in tennis, just a pair of trainers.

Easier Find Go I Can
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Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

Ambition Been Console Fortune
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Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked in filthy air all the time late into the night. I was very excited when I started making a living out of my writing, and I decided, 'I will live in nothing but an absolutely healthy way.'

Absolutely Air Bar Became
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Oh, I love labels, as long as they are numerous. I'm an American writer. I'm a Nigerian writer. I'm a Nigerian American writer. I'm an African writer. I'm a Yoruba writer. I'm an African American writer.

African African American American I Love
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Religion is close to theatre; much of its power comes from the effects of staging and framing.

Close Effects Framing Much
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When I've had enough of words, I go out into the city for a long walk; sometimes I'll go out walking for several miles. And I'll just take photographs and hope for something striking or unusual to happen that I can organize into a picture frame.

City Enough Frame Go
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I am suspicious of writers who say their work is original and influenced by nobody. If it is, it is probably uninteresting. The biggest source of novels is other novels.

Am Biggest I Am Influenced
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Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.

Above Amusing Long Never
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The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.

About Affairs Am Concern
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William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.

Defect Redeeming Single William
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Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations.

Criticism Destroy Entire Everyone
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The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

Medicine Consist Amusing Nature
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If you are too busy in your church activities to take care of your family, then perhaps we had better find something else for you to do.

Activities Better Busy Care
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Question Money Religion
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It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

Good Patriot Enemy Rest
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I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

Truth Fond Martyrdom
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The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.
World Embarrasses Dream Watch
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My opinion is that more languages you speak, better it is, but when you come to America, you speak English.
America Better Come English
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Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.

Read Dance Amusements Harm
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One thing I love most about New York is the variety of amazing foods you can eat. My all-time favorite is the Chicken Parmigianino at Jean Georges.
About All-Time Amazing Chicken
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He will never, ever, give up. And, most importantly, he will never, ever, let you down. Donald is, and always has been, an amazing leader. Now, he will go to work for you.

Always Amazing Been Donald
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Donald is intensely loyal. To family, friends, employees, country.

Country Donald Employees Family
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If I am honored to serve as first lady, I will use that wonderful privilege to try to help people in our country who need it the most. One of the many causes dear to my heart is helping children and women.
Am Causes Children Country
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You follow the law. Every few months, you need to fly back to Europe and stamp your visa. After a few visas, I applied for a green card and got it in 2001. After the green card, I applied for citizenship. And it was a long process.

After Applied Back Card
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It is part of my life, being in front of the camera all the time. It's not something that's new to me.
Being Camera Front Life
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I like certain pieces monogrammed because it gives my closet and home warmth - it's just something that you could really feel comfortable with. It's yours; it's something personal. I do it for fun.

Because Certain Closet Comfortable
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I like to help women to spend not a lot of money - to feel powerful, elegant, glamorous, to feel good about themselves.
About Elegant Feel FeelGood
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I am a full-time mom; that is my first job. The most important job ever. I started my business when he started school. When he is in school, I do my meetings, my sketches, and everything else. I cook him breakfast. Bring him to school. Pick him up. Prepare his lunch. I spend the afternoon with him.

Afternoon Am Breakfast Bring
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We live in a world of shifting values. The family is falling apart. Parents failing in what they ought to do.

Apart Failing Falling Family
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I don't devalue comedy as compared to drama. Not one bit.

Bit Comedy Compared Devalue
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Every sacrament meeting ought to be a spiritual feast.

Every Feast Meeting Ought
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How grateful I am for the law of tithing. It is the Lord's law of finance.

Am Finance Grateful How
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I am satisfied that every man or woman who goes to the temple in a spirit of sincerity and faith leaves the house of the Lord a better man or woman.

Am Better Be Man Every
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I think people will be curious to see what I can do as a dramatic actor.

Actor Curious Dramatic ICan
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I would like to do more dramas when I find a good role that will allow me to politely upset people's expectations of me as a comic actor.

Actor Allow Comic Dramas
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Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.

Women Learned Found Manner
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You have to dream intentionally. Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally.

Asleep Awake Dream Intentionally
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Children who have an education grow up to lead healthier lives - earn higher income, take better care of their families, contribute to their economies.

Children Education Grow Lead
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Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don't think so... I have to compete with popular culture, including TV, magazines, movies and video games.

Compete Culture Games High
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For me, writing a novel is like having a dream. Writing a novel lets me intentionally dream while I'm still awake. I can continue yesterday's dream today, something you can't normally do in everyday life.

Awake Continue Dream Everyday
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I am worrying about my country. I feel I have a responsibility as a novelist to do something.

About Am Country Feel
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Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.
Among Appreciate Freedom Life
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When I am writing, I do not distinguish between the natural and supernatural. Everything seems real. That is my world, you could say.

Am Between Could Distinguish
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I had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high.

Ambition Because Books Good
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