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The thing I love about making movies is the peace of mind that I know I don't have to be perfect the first time. I can be perfect the second time or the third time.

Love Making movies Peace Mind
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I want to do what I can lend my talents to, but I want it to be as a human being and not as a two-dimensional character.

Talent Human being Character
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The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage.

Accompany Any Dramatic Itself
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The world is not based on fairness. Human beings can rise to fairness, can administer something that makes it fair or just. But that's not God.

The world Based on Fairness Human being
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I like writing books. I'd rather be at home with my wife. I can write, take a break, come out, have a glass of tea, give my wife a kiss, and go back in and write some more. It's not so bad. I am really lucky.

Writing books At home Wife Glass
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I write funny. If I can make my wife laugh, I know I'm on the right track.

Write funny Wife laugh Right track
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I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.

Cannot say Get better Change Must
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Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.
Man loves Small Burning candle
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We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.
Remember Observe nature
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If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.

Falls Character Man Badly
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Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.
Nothing can Contribute Peace Soul
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Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.

Inferred Man Mistress Weaknesses
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At birth, we are like cartilage - soft, flexible tissue. By the same natural process by which cartilage becomes hard bone, the soft, tender heart of an innocent child can become hardened by the circumstances into which she is born.

Become Becomes Birth Bone
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Why can't women get along? Because we're afraid. We're afraid to be vulnerable. We're afraid to be soft. We're afraid to be hurt. But most of all, we're afraid of our power. So we become controlling and aggressive and vicious.

Afraid Aggressive Along Because
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The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.
Pleasures Imagination Drawings Models
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To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

Grow wiser Learn Fault Instrument
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They say I'm insane because I need to have so much creative control. They say I'm unmanageable, but I'm not. I just know what I like. I'm obsessed with it. If you can't control it, that's like having somebody else paint your pictures. How could you do that? I never could.

Because Control Could Creative
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That's one of the things about theater vs. film - with theater, actors have a little more control, and one of the disappointing things about films is that once you're done shooting, anything can happen, you know?

About Actor Anything Control
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Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it.

Everyone Follow Made Market
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Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.

Any Because Business Go
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I had just as much support from Republicans as I did Democrats when I ran for president. But I should have organized the Democratic Party to get me re-elected.

Democratic Democratic Party Democrats Did
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I'm one of those who can't read the books after they've seen the movie.

After Books Movie Read
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Every person my size has a different life, a different history. Different ways of dealing with it. Just because I'm seemingly O.K. with it, I can't preach how to be O.K. with it. I don't think I still am O.K. with it. There's days when I'm not.

Am Because Days Dealing
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My personal view is that another total lockdown would be counterproductive. Before defeating the virus, we must learn to live with it all around us and practice the skills of avoiding it like a landmine. Practice makes perfect. We cannot perfect those skills by locking ourselves up

Personal view Lockdown Counterproductive
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Public officers must always bear in mind the cliche that power is transient. They have limited time to make their modest contributions and bow out for others to continue. No one can annex public office as a personal chattel. That’s why I recoil from the razzmatazz of public office.

Public officers Mind Power Limited time
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Since most viruses that cause pandemics (e.g Ebola, COVID-19) are contracted from animals, why can’t the world invest heavily in isolating these viruses in animals & develop human vaccines for them in anticipation that one day humans might contract the viruses from these animals?

Most viruses Animals World invest
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This is how every African should think for Africa to grow. Stop feeling inferior to Oyibo people. Na the same God create us. We have what they do not have while they have what we do not have. Love our own, appreciate…

Think Grow Stop feeling inferior
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Excellence is a way of life. It can only be achieved when it is pursued every day. Regardless of your vocation or profession, always strive to be better today, than you were yesterday.

Excellence Life Achieved Regardless
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You can’t fix yourself by breaking someone else. Instead of putting anyone down, inspire them, change their life for the better, make them happy, make them smile, lift their spirit, and see what blessings will come your way.

Fix yourself Breaking someone Inspire them
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You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
Cannot Destroy Drunk Must
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It's a man's world, and you men can have it.

Man Men World You
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You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.

Must Simply Them Things
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Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.

Anything Creativity Enemy Lousy
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Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We've been so busy damning ourselves for years. We've done it all, and yet we don't take credit for it.

American Been Busy Credit
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Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love.

Easy Get ILove Idea
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You don't read in your own field. You read in that field when you're young, so that you can learn.

Field Learn Own Read
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You can't please everyone, and you can't make everyone like you.
Everyone Like Make Please
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I think sometimes people project things on you, but I'm trying to handle everything that's happened to me with a certain amount of grace, dignity and good manners. You just can't necessarily win all the time.

Amount Certain Dignity Everything
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I feel like a human pinata. The disappointing thing is, no candy is going to spill out.

Candy Disappointing Feel Going
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I don't know the vast majority of you personally, and it may sound kind of corny, but I really feel as if we've become friends through the years. And you've been with me during a lot of good times and some very difficult ones. I can't tell you how grateful I am.

Am Become Been Corny
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When stocks are attractive, you buy them. Sure, they can go lower. I've bought stocks at $12 that went to $2, but then they later went to $30. You just don't know when you can find the bottom.

Attractive Bottom Bought Buy
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It's human nature to keep doing something as long as it's pleasurable and you can succeed at it - which is why the world population continues to double every 40 years.

Doing Double Every Human
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African women are not just housewives, they work. They are energetic and enterprising and we are proud of them…

Women Housewives Energetic Enterprising
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Greatness does not hide and cannot be hidden…
Greatness Hide Cannot Be hidden
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I always compete against myself. I’m very passionate about what is happening in Africa. I believe it can change. I believe we can get the right leaders on board. I believe that things can go well. I believe that my films will be reference points for the future building of Africa.

Compete Passionate Happening Believe
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One movie production can travel the world and change Nigeria’s perception in the world.

One movie Travel World Perception
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Locate your dream, then light up your passion, let the light burn as you keep doing what is right that you believe in and trust in your efforts. I tell you, one day, your candle will light up the world and time will celebrate you.

Locate Dream Light up Passion
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So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.

So long Thoughts Divested Words
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You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.

Help Getting older Get old
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It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.

Takes Drink Drunk
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