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I wanted to be an outstanding player, that was my ambition.

Ambition Outstanding Player Wanted
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And when the pressure was on us, the team handled it very well. One has to learn to play well under pressure.

Handled Learn Play Pressure
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Pakistan needs to have decentralisation and a good local government system.

Good Government Local Local Government
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If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?

Burning Fire House Out
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Colonialism deprives you of your self-esteem and to get it back you have to fight to redress the balance.

Back Balance Colonialism Fight
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Terrorism is you winning hearts and minds of people.

Hearts Minds People Terrorism
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I want to have a president in the U.S. who tries to win the hearts and minds of the Muslim world.

Hearts Minds Muslim Muslim World
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In most of Pakistan it is a feudal country. People are very scared and oppressed by authority. But when you move to these wilder areas, they are not so easily suppressed.

Area Authority Country Easily
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The Westoxified Pakistanis have been selling their souls and killing their own people for a few million dollars.

Been Dollars Few Million
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I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.

Awaiting Flesh I Write Images
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Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.

Art Conscience Dark Deep
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I am autobiographical in the way a dream transforms experience and emotions all the time.

Am Autobiographical Dream Emotions
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The demons are innumerable, appear at the most inconvenient times, and create panic and terror. But I have learnt that if I can master the negative forces and harness them to my chariot, then they can work to my advantage.

Advantage Appear Create Demons
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I wanted to capture the excitement of house music, almost like a four-four beat, and the best way to do that was to use a language that was rhythmic and performative.

Almost Beat Best Best Way
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I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don't see the humanity in a person because the time frame is so short and the circumstance so extreme.

Always Because Circumstance Extreme
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I read nonfiction almost exclusively - both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the thriller genre, and it needs to rivet me in the opening few chapters.

Chapters Opening Genre Read
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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 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 don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful.

Awful Become Cry Films
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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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I love the gray area between right and wrong.

Area Love Gray Between
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The power that religion has is that you think nothing is random: If there's a tragedy in my life, that's God testing me or sending me a message.

God Religion Life Power
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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 learned that universal acceptance and appreciation is just an unrealistic goal.
Goal Unrealistic Just Learned
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I know when I go and see a writer, the first thing I think to myself is, 'Are they the character in the book?' You just can't help it; it's the way people are.

Book Character First First Thing
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If you believe the people who love you, you get lazy. And if you believe the people who hate you, you become... maybe intimidated, or whatever the word might be, and you don't write as well.

Become Believe Lazy Hate
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It's that kind of thing that readers have. I have it as a reader myself: that expectation that the writer will be that person. Then I meet other writers and realize that they're not.

Expectation Kind Meet Myself
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When you grow up in a place, you always think it's mundane. Then you travel around and live in different places, and you realise that you've got it the wrong way 'round.

Always Around Different Different Places
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When people write a novel, they want to have that reach and that impact. To get it with a first novel, you can either see it as an albatross or a calling card.

Calling Calling Card Card Either
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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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I just want to get on and tell stories.
Get Just Stories Tell
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We have to give feminism a shot. Out of sheer self preservation, we have to stand aside and let women run the show.

Aside Feminism Give Out
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The thing that's going to make artificial intelligence so powerful is its ability to learn, and the way AI learns is to look at human culture.

Ability Artificial Culture Human
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Sometimes a book influences me because it winds me up. There'll be something that gets under my skin and makes me think that I can do better.

Because Better Book Gets
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Standard English is very imperialistic, controlled, and precise; it's not got a lot of funk or soul to it.

Controlled English Funk Got
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I'm the worst employee in the world. I'll cheat and steal time and resources from my employer, although I'll con everybody into believing I'm essential to the operation.

Although Believing Cheat Con
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When I left school at 16, I became an apprentice television and radio technician, and was paid £17 a week, which was decent money in 1976. But the job turned sour when I gave myself an electric shock while repairing a television set.

Apprentice Became Decent Electric
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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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Everybody in my family were great storytellers. My dad and his brothers would just go on and on; they could tell amazing stories. I think it was something to do with the Celtic, oral storytelling tradition. People very much had that propensity towards telling tales.

Amazing Brothers Celtic Could
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The idea is not enough. And the most annoying thing for me as a writer is that people will come up to me and say, 'Hey, I've got a great idea for a book. I'm not a writer, but I've got a great story.'

Annoying Book Come Enough
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It's probably an intellectual weakness, but I look at the stars, and I say, 'There's something bigger than us out there.'

Bigger Intellectual Look Something
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That's the kind of consumer society we live in. We're always looking for the next product that's going to change your life instead of just going out and changing your life.

Always Change Changing Consumer
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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 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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It's part of me, Scotland. I'm still immersed in it even though I am not there.

Am Even I Am Immersed
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We have plenty of technologies we could use to destroy the planet, and we don't. There's more love on this planet than hate; there's more creativity than destructive power.

Love More Power Hate
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Sometimes I work purely 8-12 shifts, banging stuff into the computer. Other times, my office is like a scene from a detective movie, with Post-it Notes, plans, photographs all stuck on the walls and arrows going everywhere, and it's 4 A.M.

Arrows Banging Computer Detective
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