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Your spiritual journey is not much of a journey of discovery but of recovery. You are uncovering your own inner nature. It is already there. Don’t allow anyone sell to you what was stolen from your pocket.

Spiritual Journey Discovery Recovery
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It’s time to stop being part of the problem by speaking out about the culture of harmful practices and impunity that has led to needless murders. We are not merely showing discontent but addressing the need to change the reinforcement of this impunity & negligence.

Speaking Harmful Practices Murders
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The biggest influence? I've had several at different times - but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs.

About Along Biggest Biggest Influence
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We have an open society. No one will come and take me away for saying what I am saying. But they don't have to, if they can control how many people hear it. And that's how they do it.

Am Away Come Control
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You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to you to make something new.

Generation Make Much New
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I get some heat for what English people call 'overproduction.' I don't think my older stuff was overproduced, but I do think that sound has dated.

Call Dated English English People
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I'm a big fan of British journalists like 'The Independent's Robert Fisk, but it's hard to find voices like his in the U.S.

Big Big Fan British Fan
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
Alone Bread Creature Lives
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Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

Day Each Harvest Judge
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

Business Continue Fail Good
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I'm a bit of a slag... Some people don't think it's very nice, but I don't care... I've got hormones, and sex is there, so why not? Sex is good. Everybody does it, and everybody should!

Bit Care Does Don'tCare
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I feel like I'm always having to justify why I haven't kept in touch with anyone from the old days in Stoke-on-Trent, but I'm like that with anybody. I don't let anybody in. I just rely on myself.

Always Anybody Anyone Days
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When people come out of rehab, they usually go to secondary rehab for another six months and then enter back into society gradually. But I came out and did Top Of The Pops straight away!

Another Away Back Came
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I still find trusting people quite hard. I've got a couple of mates that I do let in, but that's it. It's something I've got to sort out - I cut people off.

Couple Cut Find Got
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I don't have anything that I treasure at all. They're just things. I tend to buy an awful lot of stuff, like clothes and things. But I wouldn't be bothered if my house burns down tomorrow.

Anything Awful AwfulLot Bothered
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They can fool you but never can they fool me. I HUNT the Evil you pretend doesn't EXIST.
Fool you Never Fool me Hunt
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Take breaks, but equally importantly, know when to stop taking breaks. Don’t “self-care” yourself into complacency.

Take breaks Equally importantly Self care
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You SHOULD be afraid of taking risks and pursuing something that’s meaningful. But you SHOULD BE MORE afraid of staying where you are if it’s making you miserable.

You should Afraid Risks Meaningful
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I’ve only been around on earth for about 21 years, but one thing I’ve learned with all certainty, is that ALL challenges are temporary I’m building the psychological foundations of the rest of my life on this axiom

Earth Learned Challenges Temporary
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Your true value is not determined by how much you started life with, but by how you are able to reposition yourself in life.

True value Life Determined Reposition
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
Books Enough Good Life
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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

Cannot Clock Fortune Frightened
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

Give Giving Love Loving
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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.

Affect Difficulty Him Literature
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.

Ancestors Each His Own
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

Courage Fears Keep Others
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I think there are ghosts. I haven't seen or heard anything. I've definitely felt something, but it's not scary.

Anything Definitely Felt Ghosts
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When you work with directors who really love actors, who love their contribution, it feels amazing. But sometimes when you work with directors, you feel like you're in the way.

Actor Amazing Contribution Directors
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I'm conscious of age, but I'm more suspicious of it than anything.

Age Anything Conscious More
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I grew up in an area of Ireland where there weren't many black or mixed-race children. But I never had any hassle; maybe I've blocked it out, but I don't think so.

Any Area Black Blocked
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I'm trying to not follow fashion. I don't even like the word. But I do like clothes, and I like nicely cut clothes that last and that are built to be worn for the next 30 years.

Built Clothes Cut Even
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I like to be comfortable, but I do enjoy being a British gent and dressing up a bit.
Being Bit British Comfortable
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I'm interested in the idea that we all start off as these lovely little babies with all this potential but that circumstances mean that we don't always live the life we should.

Always Babies Circumstances Idea
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I know I've said it before in interviews, but the idea that all actors have their eye on some sort of prize - it being an Oscar, or fame, or whatever - not all actors I know are like that.

Actor Before Being Eye
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I didn't have that many black people in my life, so I had to sort of search them out. And I didn't grow up in America, but I identified as much with their writing about the black experience as I did with their writing about the human experience.

About America Black Did
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I'm always very careful to say I'm Irish-Ethiopian because I feel Ethiopian and I look Ethiopian and I am Ethiopian. But there are 81 languages in Ethiopia, and I don't know any of them.

Always Am Any Because
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I've always had sort of an interest in American history, full stop, and especially people who contributed to the civil rights struggle.
Always American Civil Full
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Violence in film and television is an ongoing conversation, and I like eavesdropping on it, but I'm never sure what my opinion is. I like watching creative violence, but I don't know.

Conversation Creative Eavesdropping Film
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People ask me where I'm from. I say Ireland, and they are like 'Really? You don't look Irish.' Then you have to explain... people are intrigued, but sometimes you think, 'Why do I have to tell my whole story every time I open my mouth?

Ask Every Explain Intrigued
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Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.

Abstract Any Back Beginning
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I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge.

Bound Emerge Figures Little
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My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.

Amount Center Depend Interest
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Diversity needs to operate on every level. It's great that the Oscars have highlighted it, but black actors getting nominated shouldn't be the only result. There's so much more that needs to be done.

Actor Black Diversity Done
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I'm all for philosophical debates about race, but if you look at history, you see that the status quo has power when it's unchallenged. So these conversations about inequality are crucial.

About Conversations Crucial Debates
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I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan.

African Also Bad Even
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If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction.

Argued Because Carrying Competent
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No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language.

Angry Foreign Foreign Language Gets
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The circle of the return to birth can only remain open, but this is a chance, a sign of life, and a wound.

Birth Chance Circle Life
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Everyone who knew me as a child, they say they're not surprised that I became a writer because I wrote all the time. I don't remember writing, because I wouldn't have had the tools, but I think what they are saying is that I would pretend I was a writer.

Became Because Child Everyone
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It is true that I am a writer, and I was married to a composer, and I have lived in a small village in New England, but my children are not named Heracles and Persephone, and my daughter doesn't disappear underground every six months and emerge in the spring.

Am Children Composer Daughter
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