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I used to work for 12 or 14 hours at a time but the digital age has made such happy immersions almost impossible.

Age Almost Digital Happy
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Its ok to follow a few trends here and there but dont be that person who always has to follow every trend! If it isn't putting money in your pocket, stop wasting your time.

Trends Follow Money Pocket
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Don't waste your years focusing on others! focus on yourself.....work on yourself.....educate yourself....get creative.....have time for yourself.

Don't waste Focusing Educate yourself Work
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I keep a quotes journal - of every sentence that I've wanted to remember from my reading of the past 30 years.

Every Journal Keep Past
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Out of grad school, I worked as a tech writer for a while before going into computer coding for a living.

Before Computer Going Grad
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I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life - technology and science.

Central Contemporary Describe Facts
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Election year, thats when politicians become ACTORS, we’ll see how humble they’ll get, we’ll see how getting into POWER is all they care about, they will do anything. Come to your doorstep with oil & rice for your vote (with cameras) off course to win points.

Election Politicians Actors Power
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The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that we're disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning.

Beginning Bodies Desire Driven
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I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation.

Am Doing Each Great
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One day I'm riding a bicycle in my neighborhood, the next day I auditioned for Menudo and was on a plane to perform in front of 200,000 people.
Bicycle Day Front Neighborhood
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I would say the flip side to my fascination with systems is a fascination with components. So many of my books are dialogues between little and big.

Between Big Books Components
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Everyone has an idea on how to fix the country until they get into power and the opportunity to do so is right in their hands.

Everyone Country Opportunity Hands
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The Midwest is such a tabula rasa.

Midwest Such The Tabula
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Reading is the last act of secular prayer.
Act Last Prayer Reading
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My dream has always been to suspend myself in space when I write, and lying horizontal in bed is the closest to doing that.

Always Bed Been Closest
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Dem no Dey use Preek test weda the cutlass sharp.

Dem Preek Weda Cutlass
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Every Nigerian has a rare kind of super power or how then do one explain the things we conquer on a daily. The hurdles we overcome regularly without seeing them As one.

Nigerian Super power Conquer Hurdles
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This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world.

About Binary Book Character
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We build our technologies as a way of addressing all our anxieties and desires. They are our passions congealed into these prosthetic extensions of ourselves. And they do it in a way that reflects what we dream ourselves capable of doing.

Addressing Anxieties Build Capable
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Until I was 42, I could fit everything that I owned into two suitcases.

Could Everything Fit Owned
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My goal for technology has always been to reach a point where the technological mediation becomes invisible.

Always Becomes Been Goal
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What you make from a tree should be at least as miraculous as what you cut down.

Miraculous Make Tree What
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Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind.

Librarian Service Occupation Attendant
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There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.

Envy Heart Human Passion
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I feel like I can make records where, you know, I can get in the alley and exchange bars with Styles P, but I can also get in the studio and create a classic with Rihanna.

Alley Also Bars Classic
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Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword.

Agreeable Antagonist Courage Everything
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Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

Conscience More Politics Than
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My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands!

Certainly Feel Going Hands
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Those that vow the most are the least sincere.

Least Most Sincere Those
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There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so.

About Chooses Dear Duty
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I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again, night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it.

Actor After Again Answer
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For many years, there has been only one place where I am in touch with my emotions fearlessly, and that's the stage. Being on stage fills my soul in many ways, almost completely. It's my vice.

Almost Am Been Being
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For many years I thought I was bisexual. And then I would ask myself, 'What is bisexual? Does that even exist?'

Ask Bisexual Does Even
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When I was 9 years old, I really wanted to be in the show business. I really wanted to be an artist. I would grab a wooden spoon and I would start singing, even if it was for my uncles and my aunts. And I would just sing any lah-lah song.

Any Artist Aunts Business
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Before, I used to ask permission to my parents to leave the house. Now it's - I ask permission to my children to leave the house. They own the house.

Ask Before Children House
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Before I came out, I had a lot of anger. For years people would ask, 'How are you doing?' and I'd say, 'Good, fine.' It's show business, and that's what you have to show.

Anger Ask Before Business
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Do thou snatch treasures from my lips, and I'll take kingdoms back from thine.

Back Kingdoms Lips Take
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I've felt emotions onstage that I never felt before; it has strengthened me as a person and as an artist.

Artist Before Emotions Felt
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You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading.

Breeding Ease Easy Hard
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It was really intense for me to start having conversations with God, when according to the man-made laws in my religion - to be homosexual is evil.

According Conversations Evil God
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I believe Barack Obama has shown a deep conviction to help those most in need, even if their voices are not always the ones heard the loudest in Washington.

Always Barack Barack Obama Believe
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To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief.

Another Become Jest Mischief
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The glorious uncertainty of the law was a thing well known and complained of, by all ignorant people, but all learned gentleman considered it as its greatest excellency.

Considered Gentleman Glorious Greatest
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John Legend is brilliant. I feel he may be my best collaborator when it comes to delivering that undeniable soulful sound, and he does it in such a classy way.

Best Brilliant Classy Collaborator
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It's pretty much a given known fact in the industry that before I was successful, I wrote for other artists.

Artists Before Fact Given
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I do see a lot of young artists who write records or sacrifice records, because there are a lot of older artists who are preoccupied; they don't have as much time as they used to to be in the studio.

Artists Because Lot Much
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I believe I've always been so successful on the black market for a lot of different reasons.

Always Been Believe Black
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Here, everything is tragic through and through, and the will, that fain would shape a world according to its wish, at last can reach no greater satisfaction than the breaking of itself in dignified annulment.

According Breaking Dignified Everything
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I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts - the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products.

Big Chain Cheap Deprive
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Even if I know I shall never change the masses, never transform anything permanent, all I ask is that the good things also have their place, their refuge.

Also Anything Ask Change
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