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But having set myself these goals, I had to work really hard to achieve them.

Achieve Goals Had Hard
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But ultimately it comes down to how the team performs on the day.

Day Down How Performs
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Cross-cultural marriage is difficult, especially when one person has to live in another country. But I thought there was a very good chance of it working because people grow together if they have a common passion.

Another Because Chance Common
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In most of Pakistan it is a feudal country. People are very scared and oppressed by authority. But when you move to these wilder areas, they are not so easily suppressed.

Area Authority Country Easily
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Suggesting a married Jesus is one thing, but questioning the Resurrection undermines the very heart of Christian belief.

Belief Christian Heart Jesus
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The demons are innumerable, appear at the most inconvenient times, and create panic and terror. But I have learnt that if I can master the negative forces and harness them to my chariot, then they can work to my advantage.

Advantage Appear Create Demons
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I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn't getting the same kind of excitement from them that I was from going out clubbing. I wanted to get the same kind of feel.

Always Books Clubbing Excitement
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The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are not going to necessarily prescribe to that, they'll write what they feel.

Actually Create Establishment Feel
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I have written a lot about the fine arts, but I'd never written about the literary arts, and so on some level Dante really, you know, spoke to me, as new ground but also familiar ground.

Familiar Ground Spoke Level
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When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction - philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies.

Been Constantly Cultural Fiction
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When people start writing there is this idea that you have to get everything right first time, every sentence has to be perfect, every paragraph has to be perfect, every chapter has to be perfect, but what you're doing is not any kind of public show, until you're ready for it.

Any Chapter Doing Every
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I will not write a lame follow-up. It could take me 20 years. But I will never turn in a book that I'm not happy with.

Book Happy Lame Could
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I write slowly. I actually write quickly, but I throw out so much material.

Actually Material Much Out
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Historically, men have a hard time getting onboard with feminism, but I think that's changing.

Changing Feminism Getting Hard
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When I left school at 16, I became an apprentice television and radio technician, and was paid £17 a week, which was decent money in 1976. But the job turned sour when I gave myself an electric shock while repairing a television set.

Apprentice Became Decent Electric
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It's very difficult to be objective about yourself and your own circumstances, but one thing I do know about is that I grew up surrounded by storytellers.

About Circumstances Difficult Grew
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The idea is not enough. And the most annoying thing for me as a writer is that people will come up to me and say, 'Hey, I've got a great idea for a book. I'm not a writer, but I've got a great story.'

Annoying Book Come Enough
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It's probably an intellectual weakness, but I look at the stars, and I say, 'There's something bigger than us out there.'

Bigger Intellectual Look Something
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A lot of people pulled me up after 'Trainspotting' for its absence of politics, but the argument I make is that the absence of politics is political as well.

Absence After Argument Lot
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I'm trying to write books that taste like ice cream but have the nutrition of vegetables.

Nutrition Cream Books Taste
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When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.

Am Boy Call Grown
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We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.

Also Children Only Parents
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It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.

Accept Evil Good Label
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Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.

Becomes Competitive Family Grown
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I would like to be Maria, but there is La Callas who demands that I carry myself with her dignity.

Carry Demands Dignity Her
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People ask what are my intentions with my films - my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually give an evasive answer: I try to tell the truth about the human condition, the truth as I see it. This answer seems to satisfy everyone, but it is not quite correct.

About Aims Answer Ask
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On a personal level, there are many people who have meant a great deal to me. My father and mother were certainly of vital importance, not only in themselves but because they created a world for me to revolt against.

Against Because Certainly Created
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I was very much in love with my mother. She was a very warm and a very cold woman. When she was warm, I tried to come close to her. But she could be very cold and rejecting.

Close Cold Come Could
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When I was young, I was extremely scared of dying. But now I think it a very, very wise arrangement. It's like a light that is extinguished. Not very much to make a fuss about.

About Arrangement Dying Extremely
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If I didn't have my profession, I think I would be sitting in a nuthouse. But I have been unceasingly at work, and this has been very healthy for me. So I had no need for therapy.

Been Had Has Been Healthy
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We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.

Actions He His Know
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Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.
Cancer Challenge Day Every
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I don't think anyone has the right to intrude in your life, but they do. I would like people to separate the actress and the woman.

Actress Anyone Intrude Life
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Until 45 I can play a woman in love. After 55 I can play grandmothers. But between those ten years, it is difficult for an actress.

Actress After Between Difficult
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I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn't shut up!

Ever Had Human Inside
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The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

Art Common Find Greatness
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I made so many films which were more important, but the only one people ever want to talk about is that one with Bogart.

About Bogart Ever Films
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I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside.

Cheeks Day Down Enough
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Destiny calls forth to those who will align with their purpose. Destiny is not determined by your intentions, but by divine directions.

Destiny Calls Purpose Determined
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Change. We are more likely to remain in familiar bondage,than try foreign liberty. The average mind,does not want to dare anything, that seems unfamiliar. But you never what you are capable of until you try. What will you do differently today

Change Familiar Bondage Foreign
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Being honest may not get you a lot of FRIENDS, but it'll always get you the RIGHT ONES. Stay true to who you are. Do not shift or lower your standards.

Honest Friends Right-ones True
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In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.

After Alike Chiefly Endures
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Branding for the actor is ‘being good not known’. But, if you can balance ‘good and known’, then you are a winner.

Branding Actors Good Balance
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I have more artistic control in a smaller show. But it doesn't really matter. Sometimes you can have the smallest role in the smallest production and still make a big impact.

Artistic Big Big Impact Control
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I would not kill my enemies, but I will make them get down on their knees. I will, I can, I must.

Down Enemies Get ICan
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I am not an angel and do not pretend to be. That is not one of my roles. But I am not the devil either. I am a woman and a serious artist, and I would like so to be judged.

Am Angel Artist Devil
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They may not use the word better. But they certainly believe that they'll go to heaven and Jews will not.
Believe Better Certainly Go
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It is said that the 1966 coup that failed was strictly an Igbo coup, but then the irony of history is that it was the late General Aguiyi Ironsi, an Igbo who single-handedly dismantled the coup in Lagos, while my humble self, another Igbo-man rendered it immobile in the north.

1966 Coup Igbo Aguiyi Ironsi
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Biafra is a child of circumstance. His existence and survival are always a marvel, sometimes bordering on a miracle. His life is a tribute to man, his courage is his endurance, his ingenuity is his humanity.

Biafra Circumstance Existence Survival
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You are not allowed to hit a guy who wears glasses...but he's allowed to hit you.

Not allow Hit Wears Glasses
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