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Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed.

Movie Long Script Been
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I know I have to run 20 more minutes if I eat ice cream. Basically, I eat everything, but I just do more training.

Basically Cream Eat Everything
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I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it.

Pine Item After World
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He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

Disliked Enemies Friends He
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The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

Between Difference Every Future
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When I was young I didn't care about education, just money and box office.

About Box Care Education
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Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.

Means Class Know Letting
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Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.

Action Besides Director Educate
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The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.

Advice Any Good Good Advice
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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Else Lives Most Opinions
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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

Asking Live Living Others
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

Allied Any Case Certain
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The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

Become Begins Being Conscious
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I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

America Any Any Other Country Country
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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

Advice Always Any Good
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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

Because Cling Deal Forced
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Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.

Against Any Born Conspiracy
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No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

Artist Cease Did Ever
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Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.

Because Day Down Each
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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

Always Am Best I Am
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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.

About American American History Anyone
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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Give He Him Himself
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

Anyone Ever Expensive Extremely
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Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Between Enmity Friendship Love
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Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

Cannot Fear Know Live
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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

Affliction Crutch Desirable Frightening
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I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

Always Believed Just Negative
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Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Consistency Last Refuge Unimaginative
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It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Better Fascinating Income Permanent
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The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.

Ask Become Begin Experience
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No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

Back Buy Enough His
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When I got into this, I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me, I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor, and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

About Actor Become Comedian
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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

Be Happy Being Expected Happy
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Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.

Did Else Exactly Like
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Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

Ambition Failure Last Refuge
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Hatred is blind, as well as love.
Blind Hatred Love Well
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Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

Always First First Love Last
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Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

Cure Just Nothing Senses
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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.

Could Destroy Failed Hated
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When I was younger and did a stand-up gig, it would take me two weeks to recover. Sometimes I'd get so panicked that I would stutter.

Did Get Gig Me
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
Any Creation Dangerous Lose
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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

Dangerous Definition He Heart
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I knew it was time to get off of reality TV when someone asked me if I sang as well as acted.

Acted Asked Get Knew
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The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide.

Did End Failure Hide
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To be honest with you, when I got into this I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me. I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

About Actor Become Comedian
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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.

Alive Been Books Connected
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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.

Back Bread Cast Floating
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I do love the films I've done in the past. I work hard in my movies and my friends work hard and we're trying to make people laugh and I'm very proud of that.

Done Films Friends Hard
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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

About Born Changed Changes
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I have some ideas on how to fix that. They're not very good ideas, but at least they're ideas!

Fix Good Good Ideas How
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