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Turin is a city which entices a writer towards vigor, linearity, style. It encourages logic, and through logic it opens the way towards madness.

City Encourages Logic Madness
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I think today that politics registers very late things which society manifests through other channels, and I feel that often politics distorts and mystifies reality.

Channel Feel I Feel I Think
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I would very much like to be one of those writers who have something really clear in their head to say, and throughout their life they promote this idea in their works.

Clear Head Idea Life
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Pain is pain, hurt is hurt, fear is fear, anger is anger, and it has no color.

Anger Color Fear Hurt
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I was sitting on the bus, and the sign said if you're ready to better your life, come to Medgar Evers College, and I got off the bus and went to Medgar Evers College.

Better Bus College Come
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I like animals, all animals. I wouldn't hurt a cat or a dog - or a chicken or a cow. And I wouldn't ask someone else to hurt them for me. That's why I'm a vegetarian.

Animals Ask Cat Chicken
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So I won't say I'm lucky. I'm fortunate enough to find or attract very talented people. For some reason I found them, and they found me.

Attract Enough Find Fortunate
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I love working with the same actors repeatedly. That happens a lot. It's kind of inevitable, especially if you work with the same writers and directors and you start to form a company of actors. You gravitate towards each other.

Actor Company Directors Each
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I spend my nights just sitting and reading a book and drinking my tea and walking my dog. That's about as exciting as my life gets.

About Book Dog Drinking
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I hope that I helped to build a fierce pride in what we are and what we can do if we set our minds to it.

Hope Build Fierce pride Minds
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Humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any comparable period of time in human history, largely to meet rapidly growing demands for food, fresh water, timber, fiber and fuel. This has resulted in a substantial and largely irreversible loss in the diversity of life on Earth.

Humans Ecosystems History Life
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I just get silly inside my head and I start to think about something and in my head I start twisting it around, contorting it and envisioning it in different ways.

Head Start twisting Envisioning
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My future plans are hazy, and I've yet to experience how much cartooning is in my blood and therefore how much I'll miss it. But I have some other interests, especially in music, and I will probably take the opportunity to delve into those things more deeply.

Future plans Hazy Experience Cartooning
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.

Cartooning Good fit Never think
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I've always thought the word cow was funny. And cows are sort of tragic figures. Cows blur the line between tragedy and humor.

Thought Cow Funny Line
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I didn't want to go to school for more than four years, and I didn't know what you did with a bachelor's in biology. So I switched over and got my degree in communications. I regret it now. It was one of the most idiotic things I ever did.

School Four years Communications
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I didn't feel that my identity was caught up in being a cartoonist, and that if it stopped I'd stop.

Feel My identity Caught up Cartoonist
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What we learned quite early on is what was really important to early British pop that we produced-and this is where we were distinct from almost everybody else in this respect-is that it had to reflect exactly what the audience wanted us to say.

Almost Audience British Distinct
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I never used to believe in fate. I used to think you make your own life, and then you call it fate.

Believe Fate Think Own life
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When you fall in love, and you're very young, you think that that's the love of your life. And maybe it is, but it usually doesn't turn out that way.
Fall In love Young Life
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What I took back, because of my exposure to the Jewish music of the 30s and the 40s in my upbringing with my father, was that kind of theatrical songwriting. It was always a part of my character. This desire to make people laugh.

Always Back Because Character
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I want to do what I can lend my talents to, but I want it to be as a human being and not as a two-dimensional character.

Talent Human being Character
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The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage.

Accompany Any Dramatic Itself
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I only really started to go to plays and to be interested in drama 20 years ago when as an artist I was already well-rounded. I think I'm more disciplined today.

Artist Disciplined Drama Go
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If the physical thing you're doing is funny, you don't have to act funny while doing it...Just be real and it will be funnier

Physical thing Funny Be real
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I said something really stupid once. I told a friend that my mother was so beautiful, but my dad was ugly. My dad heard it and just laughed it off, but I felt guilty. It haunted me for years. I should never have said that.

Something really Beautiful
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I've had a very good life and a very good career. I have no regrets.

Good life Career Regret
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I like writing books. I'd rather be at home with my wife. I can write, take a break, come out, have a glass of tea, give my wife a kiss, and go back in and write some more. It's not so bad. I am really lucky.

Writing books At home Wife Glass
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Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.
Man loves Small Burning candle
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We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.
Remember Observe nature
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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

No words Wisdom Understands
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Whether at work, at home or in public, we have been trained to believe that who we are at the core of our being is often unacceptable. As a result, we work diligently to live up to - and sometimes down to - what others have made us out to be, whether or not it is an accurate reflection of who we are.

Accurate Been Being Believe
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We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.

We accumulate Opinion Age
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In order to feel loved, be respected and stay connected, we humans have a tendency to lie. We lie about who we are, what we want, what we need, what we have done or will do. Perhaps 'lie' is too strong a word. Let me say that what we do is withhold the truth.

About Connected Done Feel
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Talk about your negative experiences with the father, with your girlfriends. Not with your children. And bite your tongue when it comes to diminishing, denying, dismissing, name-calling.

About Bite Children Denying
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Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.

Inferred Man Mistress Weaknesses
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At times I have long conversations with God. Sometimes I ask questions. I admit that there are also times when I let out my frustrations, fears, and anxieties in less than honorable ways. No matter what I pray about or how I pray about it, the result I always get is comfort.

About Admit Also Always
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A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
A handful Soldiers Mouthful Arguments
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I knew all of the childhood prayers I uttered on my knees at the side of my bed. Many years of Sunday-school attendance had etched certain Psalms and rote prayers into the fibers of my brain. However, somewhere deep inside of me, I had the secret belief that I did not know how to pray, and that frightened me.

Attendance Bed Belief Brain
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My father never kissed me, hugged me or told me that he loved me. As my only living parent, he became the filter through which I saw myself, the possibilities for my life, the world and all men. He was a conflicted and dark filter.

Became Dark Father Filter
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For most of my life, I believed that my father had broken many of my bones. They were emotional and psychological bones; things no one could see, things that caused me to limp through life clutching for and holding on to people and situations that often rendered me immobile.

Believed Bones Broken Caused
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It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists

Gift Employing Vicissitudes Life
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Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.

Delight Understand Abstract System
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Why can't women get along? Because we're afraid. We're afraid to be vulnerable. We're afraid to be soft. We're afraid to be hurt. But most of all, we're afraid of our power. So we become controlling and aggressive and vicious.

Afraid Aggressive Along Because
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To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.

Receive applause Works Demand Power
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One of the ways that people avoid taking responsibility for their role in their own pain is what I call the BPs - blame and projection.

Avoid Blame Call Own
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One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.

Habit Friction Mind Gliding over
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There is a lot of healing going on. Really! More people are vegetarians, more are in the green movement, more of us are tearing down the old paradigms and embracing same-sex marriage, single motherhood, men raising babies.

Babies Down Embracing Going
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'Game of Thrones' is an amazing show, and I have no problem speaking of the virtues of HBO.

Amazing Game GameOfThrones HBO
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The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.
Pleasures Imagination Drawings Models
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