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I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

Disputes Friend Few Foe
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I think that it's when we step out of the road, step outside the box, become our own person, and we walk fearlessly down paths other people wouldn't look at, that true progress comes. And sometimes true beauty as well.

Beauty Become Box Down
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I feel as much British as I do American. There's not much difference between our countries.

American Between British Countries
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I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: 'not sexy,' 'not funny,' 'too intense,' desperate.' All those labels they gave me, I took them because there wasn't a trace of my true self left.

Because Believed Desperate Everything
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I hope our hopes and aspirations are bigger than setting records.

Records Hope Bigger Our
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I was an altar boy. I could probably quote the Bible from beginning to end.

Altar Beginning Bible Boy
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Mum put me in drama classes when I was about 14. I'd been going on about it for some time, so maybe it was a way to shut me up.

About Been Classes Drama
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I don't believe that you can be too short as a quarterback. It's not about height.

Short Believe About Height
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There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it.
Act Ashamed Closet Gonna
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I was never confident about finishing a book, but friends encouraged me. When I finished my first book, it was accepted by a publisher right away and became an instant bestseller. One male critic called it the most shocking book he ever read.

About Accepted Away Became
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When I had dark hair I definitely felt that I was more anonymous.
Anonymous Dark Dark Hair Definitely
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Sexual harassment at work... is it a problem for the self-employed?

Harassment Problem Sexual Work
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I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.

About After Ask Because
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I'm not sure why I still think of myself as 28 - maybe that's the point where you start growing up, and then you just feel the same for evermore.

Evermore Feel Growing Growing Up
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Each day, you get an ounce more confidence. When we're playing like we are, there's no reason not to.

Reason Playing Ounce Each
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As much as my kids keep me young, they also have the reverse effect when I don't have the energy.

Also Effect Energy Keep
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I had this dream, and I really wanted to be a star. And I was almost a monster in the way that I was really fearless with my ambitions.

Almost Ambition Dream Fearless
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It has been an interesting road, but I wouldn't trade any of it for the world, because I feel like all of those instances in my life I felt molded me and strengthened me and made me who I am.

Felt Life Road Feel
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I have written 20 books, and each one is like having a baby. Writing is not easy; some people want to write books but just can't put a story together. I can put together a story that interests both me and my readers.

Baby Books Both Each
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I managed to take a family trip to the Bahamas and it was quite lovely.

Bahamas Family Lovely Quite
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Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else would be either.

All-Around Anyone Anyone Else Around
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Authors change publishers because it's like being married for a long time and suddenly you want to go out and have a wild affair! No, not seriously, sometimes the deal is more interesting with a new publisher, and other times they have more enthusiasm for your books.

Affair Authors Because Being
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Maybe in the workplace I have more courage than other areas in my life.
Area Courage Life Maybe
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Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about.

About Know Must Passion
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As you get older, you overthink and can talk yourself out of anything. It's good to be a bit reckless and experimental.

Anything Bit Experimental Get
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I actually have a fear of the water because I nearly drowned. I got caught in a rip tide, and I wasn't a good swimmer because that was when I was emigrating from England to Australia.

Actually Australia Because Caught
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I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

Brutality War Hate Lived
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I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught.

About Anybody Basically Caught
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Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

Disloyal Confuse Honest Doctrine
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If you behave normally, people treat you normally. It's only when you act as if you're someone special that they feel obliged to stand on ceremony.

Act Behave Ceremony Feel
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I know I've got a degree. Why does that mean I have to spend my life with intellectuals? I've got a lifesaving certificate but I don't spend my evenings diving for a rubber brick with my pyjamas on.

Brick Certificate Degree Diving
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I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.

Absurd Breath Mention Name
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I was performing in New York and my friends started to call me Gaga, they said I was very theatrical and they said, 'You're Gaga'.

Call Friends Gaga Me
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The instrument that I never learned how to play was my fans. You know, they are the part of the story that nobody teaches you. I just want to do the right thing; I want to be a voice with them, among them

Among DoTheRightThing Fans How
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My mother, she didn't believe in praise. She'd never say anything was great. I think that's quite Northern, to not make people feel too good. I didn't mind if she was proud of me or not, it didn't bother me. I was never trying to please her.

Anything Believe Bother Feel
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I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way.

Between Born Halfway IWasBorn
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I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.

About Album Also Away
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Life's not fair, is it? Some of us drink champagne in the fast lane, and some of us eat our sandwiches by the loose chippings on the A597.

Champagne Drink Eat Fair
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If you are not being bullied all I would say - cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well - is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there's someone in your class that maybe doesn't have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person.

About Being Bigger Bullied
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I've been actually really very pleased to see how much awareness was raised around bullying, and how deeply it affects everyone. You know, you don't have to be the loser kid in high school to be bullied. Bullying and being picked on comes in so many different forms

Actually Affects Around Awareness
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In most communities it is illegal to cry 'fire' in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?

Aims Achieve Effort Scare
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In London it's easy not to be the focus of attention, especially when Sting lives in the house just behind you.

Attention Behind Easy Focus
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In my 20s I was going round seeing agents who were patronising because I was fat and a girl, which was a double whammy. I knew what it was to feel out-of-the-loop.

Agents Because Double Fat
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The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.

Law Rule Recall Show
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There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.

Orders Court Room Basic
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Our pleasures were simple - they included survival.

Survival Included Our Simple
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Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Age Fear Few Long
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The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.

Always Good Ideas Moves
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You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

Assault Over Lead Head
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The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.
Command Meant Mysterious Never
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