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You have to dream intentionally. Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally.

Asleep Awake Dream Intentionally
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I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else.

Because Else Father Japanese
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Confidence, as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I loved cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved.

Be Happy Because Cats Confidence
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I found that being online has opened a window for me to look into other people's lives... The greatest fear that I have is losing touch.

Found Online Opened Window
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I'd rather be dealt with as a person than a persona.

Rather Dealt Person
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When I was a teenager, I thought how great it would be if only I could write novels in English. I had the feeling that I would be able to express my emotions so much more directly than if I wrote in Japanese.

Able Could Directly Emotions
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I've learned to take things a little more easily, to be a little more forgiving of myself.

Learned Easily Forgiving
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Many people, especially young people, would like to be more independent and on their own. But it is very difficult and they suffer from feelings of isolation. I think that is one reason why young readers support my work.

Difficult Feelings I Think Independent
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I believe that if we want our children to understand the world beyond their classroom, we must bring the world into their classroom.
Believe Children Classroom
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My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.

Books Least Narrative Point
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When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.
Girls Educated Cascade Society
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Every writer has his writing technique - what he can and can't do to describe something like war or history. I'm not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing.

About Because Describe Every
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I myself have been on my own and utterly independent since I graduated. I haven't belonged to any company or any system. It isn't easy to live like this in Japan.

Any Been Belonged Company
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I am worrying about my country. I feel I have a responsibility as a novelist to do something.

About Am Country Feel
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Keep the faith! It is not over until it is over. Don't swallow your Voice until our Democracy evolves into assured Good Governance

Faith Voice Democracy Evolves
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Many people tell me that they don 't know what to feel when they finish one of my books because the story was dark, or complicated, or strange. But while they were reading it, they were inside my world and they were happy. That's good.

Because Books Complicated Dark
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Whatever your traducers may do, they will come back someday and meet you where you were and always will be- calmly sitting with the Solid Rock known as The Truth which never falters.

Traducers Meet Truth Solid rock
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When I look at the world as it is, there’s a serious vacuum of leadership. The world is crying for leaders.

Leaders World Serious Vacuum
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I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

Accept Anything Best Capable
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Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Adversity Done Me Overcome
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No one has ever drowned in sweat.
Drowned Ever No-One Sweat
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Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.

Best Do Your Best Others Right
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I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.

Career Defeat Everyone Experience
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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.
Life Pass Spectator You
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You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

Ahead Anyone Even Get
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I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

Anything Ask Learn Never
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You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.

Bad Everyone Good Lose
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I was raised in a religious environment, and my wife is one of the more religious people that I have ever known.

Environment Ever I Was Raised Known
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My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961.

First Football Job Mary
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When I work a game as an analyst, all I do is look at the game like a coach.

Analyst Coach Game Like
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Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.

Ask God Never Success Power
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I don't think there's been anything in the game of football in my lifetime that has changed college football more than redshirting.

Anything Been Changed College
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When the bank asks me about my assets, I include my friendship with Regis Philbin.
About Ask Assets Bank
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I'll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics.

Assure Nothing Politics Will
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The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.

Reason Arrogance Betrays Intelligence
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I was raised a Catholic on both sides of the family. I went to a Catholic grade school and thought everybody in the country was Catholic, because that's all I ever was associated with.

Associated Because Both Both Sides
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As Buddhism moved from one culture to another, it always adapted.

Adapted Always Another Buddhism
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According to the Buddhist belief, you can go on and on indefinitely, so you see your life as just a brief moment in time.

According Belief Brief Brief Moment
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The Buddha taught that we're not actually in control, which is a pretty scary idea. But when you let things be as they are, you will be a much happier, more balanced, compassionate person.

Actually Balanced Buddha Compassionate
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I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don't be old. Don't be stale.

Talent Capacity Surprised Life
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It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt.

Belief Better Contempt God
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All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.

Asleep Awake Common Each
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Over curiosity to know what God has not revealed to man often leads people to occultism

Curiosity God Leads Occultism
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Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

Create Discord Disease Examine
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Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.

Adversity Direct Easily Harder
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No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.

Bricks Chance Clay Ever
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To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
Better Difficult Easy Fault
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Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

Any Better Proper Season
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For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.

Err Human Least Men
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My dream girl... well, I love eyes. And lips. She has to have nice lips!

Dream Eyes Girl I Love
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