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I never intended to be a professional writer; as the story developed, the one thing I had in my hopes was that this would be something tangible to separate me from the nameless, numbered masses.

Developed Had Hopes Intended
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We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother - but... when she became our child, the affection came.

Affection Became Came Child
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Change is a process which has to be managed.
Change Process Which
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Greatness begins with a vision..healthy passion gives it motion.

Vision Passion Begins Motion
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I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
I See Nothing Promising See
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To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.

Becomes Christmas Difficult Every
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There is something suspect, especially in America, about people who don't have ten-year plans for a career or at least a regular job.

About America Career Job
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Here's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn't so. There is a tremendous diversity in fantasy today.

Always Diversity Fantasy Genre
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I looked on my stomach and saw Frieda Rebecca, white as flour with the cream that covers new babies, funny little dark squiggles of hair plastered over her head, with big, dark-blue eyes.

Babies Big Covers Cream
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One has to have the strength of character to say the time has come to move on... unless you are a king.

Character Come King Move
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I think that personal experience is very important, but certainly it shouldn't be a kind of shut-box and mirror-looking, narcissistic experience. I believe it should be relevant, and relevant to the larger things, the bigger things, such as Hiroshima and Dachau and so on.

Believe Bigger Certainly Experience
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Science fiction is the ugly stepchild of mainstream literature, and fantasy is the ugly stepchild of science fiction, and tie-in novels are the ugly stepchild of fantasy... and on and on and on.

Fantasy Fiction Literature Mainstream
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When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.

About Beyond Bury Child
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The most common criticism I've seen is that I write 'popcorn fantasy:' lightweight action-adventure. Some people call it that as they explain why they love it for exactly that reason. I'm cool with that, either way. I just nod and let it go.

Call Common Cool Criticism
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Fantasy is like an idealized reality, and the core of fantasy is the one person can make a difference.

Core Difference Fantasy Like
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I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

About Bright Bright Future Feel
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As long as inequality and other social problems plague us, populists will try to exploit them.

Exploit Inequality Long Other
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Don't be competitive, take life easy. Avoid rat race because even if you win the race, you are still a rat.

Win Race Life Easy
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A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.

Bean Day Gets He
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Developing and newer democracies are much more susceptible to the tactics of populists and demagogues - they often do not have strong institutions, free press, or the infrastructure required to defend their nascent democracies.

Defend Democracy Developing Free
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The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.

Always Been Highly Most
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When you're young, you don't have much sense. You don't have any reasoning power. You don't have any ability to take a blow, an insult, a hurt in the right way. There is no way a child can do that. All a child can do is feel the pang of it, the heartache of it.

Ability Any Blow Child
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Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.

About Absolutely American Believes
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On a more practical level, anyone out there who wants to be a writer should clearly recognize that this is a brutal business, where even incredibly talented people sometimes never make a living. If you want to chase such a dream, please have a Plan B in place.

Anyone Brutal Business Chase
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English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.

Across Education English Getting
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Shifting towards low-carbon energy systems can avert climate catastrophe while creating new opportunities for investment, growth, and employment.

Catastrophe Climate Creating Employment
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Whenever you're writing a book or creating a movie or a game, your first task is to get the reader/audience/player to suspend disbelief, to buy into the logic and boundaries of your world, even though those boundaries might include things like dragons and magic. To do that, you need long threads - of history and culture.

Book Boundaries Buy Creating
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It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.

Acquainted Club Easier He
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Governments have to conclude a fair, universal, and binding climate agreement, by which every country commits to reducing emissions of greenhouse gases.

Agreement Binding Climate Conclude
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I am a stubborn optimist: I was born an optimist and will remain an optimist.
Am Born Optimist Remain
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'Economics for Everybody' begins with understanding God's principles for organizing His creation and what that means for us as creatures and stewards.

Begins Creation Creatures Economics
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We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.

Destroying Effectively Love Ourselves
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Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane.

Along Climbs Creative CreativePeople
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Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.

Achieved Alienation Beings Destiny
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Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.

Any Asset Beauty Deep
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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through... whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Barrier Before Crash Destroy
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We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.

Acquainted Actually Assume Become
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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
Become Begins Conscious Freedom
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I think that my darkest moment was the Iraq war and the fact that we could not stop it.

Could Darkest Fact Iraq
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A lot of people give up just before they're about to make it. You know you never know when that next obstacle is going to be the last one.
About Before Give Going
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People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next.

Actor Because Day Fleeting
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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Imagine Learn Really See
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It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.

Finally Himself His Man
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Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?

Anything Know Last More
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What you really want for yourself is always trying to break through, just as a cooling breeze flows through an open window on a hot day. Your part is to open the windows of your mind.

Always Break Breeze Cooling
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Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.

Away Freedom Measured Number
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Make it absolutely clear to yourself what you want from other people. That is really half the secret for drawing your desire to you in the shortest possible time and with the least amount of effort.

Absolutely Amount Clear Desire
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Do not resist a new idea. Be quietly receptive. Go along with it, even unwillingly at first. Sooner or later, it will reveal itself as your ally.

Ally Along Even First
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I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.

After Altered Changed Color
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Evil is an attack against human spiritual development and enlightenment. All evil, badness, neurosis - it has one motive and one motive only, which is to destroy - to destroy your chance of arising above yourself.

Above Against Arising Attack
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