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Writing is what I do. It's like breathing to me at a certain point, but if I couldn't write, I do like cooking.

Breathing Certain CertainPoint Cooking
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I was always proud of being tough-minded, and I think I still am, but in my old age I've got a little softer in the head, and that's all right.
Age Always Am Being
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I had, of course, no model for that sort of woman being married, but I can make that up as I go along.

Model Woman Married
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But in fantasy, you can make a complete break, and you can put people in a situation where they are confronted with things that they would not confront in the real world

Fantasy Complete break Situation
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It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is.

Future Logical Science fiction
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There were hardly any sports for girls when I was growing up, but I loved to race the guys and climb trees and all that sort of stuff.

Sports Growing up Loved Race
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I don't know about you, but my girlfriends have been my girlfriends forever, and they're my sisters and my family.

You Girlfriends Have Sisters
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But I have a list of books that I want to read before I die, and whenever I get time to read something that isn't a script, I'll read something from that.

Books Read Die
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I'm kind of a nerd when it comes to literature and theory. I wish I could have more of that in life, but I don't because I'm always reading scripts or things to prepare for movies when I'm reading.

Literature Life Reading script Prepared
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Nothing like mashed potatoes when you're feeling blue. Nothing like getting into bed with a bowl of hot mashed potatoes already loaded with butter, and methodically adding a thin, cold slice of butter to every forkful.

Adding Bed Blue Bowl
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I'm religious about salted butter. I don't understand how it happened that everyone thought we should all have sweet butter. I blame the French.

About Blame Butter Everyone
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A weed is but an unloved flower.
A wed Unloved flower
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Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.

Laugh World Weep Borrow
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It is easy to tell the toiler How best he can carry his pack But no one can rate a burden's weight Until it has been on his back

Easy Toiler Pack Burden's weight
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It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song, But the man worth while is one who will smile, When everything goes dead wrong.
Pleasant Life flows Worth
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Feast, and your halls are crowded Fast, and the world goes by Succeed and give, and it helps you live But no man can help you die.

Feast Crowded fast Succeed Live
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Everybody dies. There's no avoiding it, and I do not believe for one second that butter is the cause of anyone's death. Overeating may be, but not butter, please. I just feel bad for people who make that mistake.

Anyone Avoiding Bad Believe
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In the beginning there was nothing. God said, ‘Let there be light!’ And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better.

Beginning God Light.
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Sleepless' was a script that had been written by three or four other writers before me, and it never really worked, but it had this amazing ending on the top of the Empire State Building that just worked, no matter what came before it.

Amazing Been Before Building
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I have now been married to my third husband for more than 20 years. But when you've had children with someone you're divorced from, divorce defines everything; it's the lurking fact, a slice of anger in the pie of your brain.

Anger Been Brain Children
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But seriously, I think overall in the scheme of things winning an Emmy is not important. Let’s get our priorities straight. I think we all know what’s really important in life? winning an Oscar.

I think Scheme Important
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Life is short. If you doubt me, ask a butterfly. Their average life span is a mere five to fourteen days.
Life Short Butterfly Average
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Stuffed deer heads on walls are bad enough, but it’s worse when they are wearing dark glasses and have streamers in their antlers because then you know they were enjoying themselves at a party when they were shot.

Stuffed deer Wearing Dark glasses
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We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.

Kindness Compassion Laughter Joy
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It’s our challenges and obstacles that give us layers of depth and make us interesting. Are they fun when they happen? No. But they are what make us unique. And that’s what I know for sure… I think.

Challenges Obstacles Layers Fun
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Laugh as much as you can. Laugh until you cry. Cry until you laugh. Keep doing it even if people are passing you on the street saying, ‘I can’t tell if that person is laughing or crying, but either way they seem crazy, let’s walk faster.’ Emote. It’s okay. It shows you are thinking and feeling.

Laugh As much Cry Keep doing
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We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness.

Told People Stay Love
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The problem of Africa is we believe in people's report and names but in the context of global development, names and titles have no meaning or merit. What is important is what you DO in order to grow rapidly.

Africa Development Grow Merit
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Ultimately, time is all you have and the idea isn't to save it, but to savour it.

Ultimately Time Idea Savour it
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Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential.
Year Walk Flaws Potential
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This packrat has learned that what the next generation will value most is not what we owned, but the evidence of who we were and the tales of how we loved. In the end, it's the family stories that are worth the storage.

Learned Next generation Value most
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Women have gained access to the institutions, but not enough power to overhaul them.
Women Gained access Power
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Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital - the world's best talents and greatest ideas.

Best Capital Changed Company
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Short cycle business are being impacted by credit, and are being impacted by gasoline prices, food, distribution businesses, chemical business.

Being Business Businesses Chemical
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CEOs can talk and blab each day about culture, but the employees all know who the jerks are. They could name the jerks for you. It's just cultural. People just don't want to do it.

About CEOs Could Cultural
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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
Doing Enjoyment Height Learning
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San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories.

Francisco Gone Memories Nothing
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
Cards Good Hand Holding
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We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
Comprehend Far More Never
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I absolutely don't have $20 billion. But I'd love to, right?

Absolutely Billion Love Right
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Today the financial market is no good, but the money is there.

Financial Good Market Money
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When everything goes wrong, what a joy to test your soul and see if it has endurance and courage. An invisible and all-powerful enemy - some call him God, others the Devil, seem to rush upon us to destroy us; but we are not destroyed.

Call Courage Destroy Destroyed
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I felt deep within me that the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge or Virtue or Goodness or Victory but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe!

Attain Awe Deep Despairing
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Life is a crusade in the service of God. Whether we wished to or not, we set out as crusaders to free - not the Holy Sepulcher - but that God buried in matter and in our souls.

Buried Crusade Free God
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Nothing is nearer to us than heaven. The earth is beneath our feet, and we tread upon it, but heaven is within us.

Beneath Earth Feet Heaven
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May God forgive me, but the letters of the alphabet frighten me terribly. They are sly, shameless demons - and dangerous! You open the inkwell, release them; they run off - and how will you ever get control of them again!

Again Alphabet Control Dangerous
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An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.

Artist Artists Burdens Citizen
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I love living. I have some problems with my life, but living is the best thing they've come up with so far.

Best Come Far I Love
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Everyone thinks they can write a play; you just write down what happened to you. But the art of it is drawing from all the moments of your life.

Art Down Drawing Everyone
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Money brings some happiness. But after a certain point, it just brings more money.

After Brings Certain Certain Point
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