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I think viewers quite like it when I'm suffering or eating or drinking something horrible or really up against it in some quicksand or whatever.

Against Drinking Eating Horrible
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My favorite moments? Where it's all going swimmingly, the sun's out and I've got a fire going and a nice snake on the barbecue.

Barbecue Favorite Fire Going
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Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.

Terms Like That Humane
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Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.

Libraries Are The One
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The truth needs so little rehearsal.

The Truth Needs So
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We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.

We Are Animals Born
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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.

Wats Elections Both Are
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You're not human if you don't feel fear. But I've learnt to treat fear as an emotion that sharpens me. It's there to give me that edge for what I have to do.

Edge Emotion Fear Feel
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It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

Surprising How Much Memory
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You only get one chance at life and you have to grab it boldly.

Boldly Chance Get Grab
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It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.

Kills You To Watch
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My faith is an important part of my life and over the years I've learnt that it takes a proud man to say he doesn't need anything. It has been a quiet strength and a backbone through a lot of difficult times.

Anything Backbone Been Difficult
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Life's full of lots of dream-stealers always telling you you need to do something more sensible. I think it doesn't matter what your dream is, just fight the dream-stealers and hold onto it.

Always Dream Fight Full
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Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.

Pain Reaches Heart Electrical
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What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.

What Keeps You Going
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People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.

People's Dreams Are Made
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Dancing inspires my music. Having your girlfriends all together and just being free and happy.

Being Dancing Free Girlfriends
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.

The Very Least You
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What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.

What You Loose Blindness
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I never saw myself as a singer; I never really thought I had the voice for it.

Had Myself Never Really
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.

Memory Is Complicated Thing
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

Sometimes The Strength Motherhood
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I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.

Fearsome Mind Throw My
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Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.

Stop Minute Right Where
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To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!

Hopeful To Embrace One
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Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.

Small Change Wonders These
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.

Best Work Do My
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Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.

Fiction Essays Can Create
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I don't want to be that girl who has that same style all the time where the music always sounds exactly the same, and you always know it's her.

Always Exactly ExactlyTheSame Girl
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What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.

What A Writer Do
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When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another person for the duration.

When You Pick Up
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My father is Cuban. Spanish was my first language, but I don't speak it that much anymore because I had dyslexia, and in school they work with you only in English. But I'm proud to be Latina, and most people don't know I am.

Am Anymore Because Cuban
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Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.

Empathy Really The Opposite
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I love pointy nails! A cute way to add a pop of color to your nails is to make a V-shape at the ends of them in a pastel color.

Add Color Cute Ends
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It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.

Seems Very Safe Me
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There's always a part of your nation's history that you haven't been told that... has a powerful impact on how you yourself may behave and may believe.

There's Always Part Your
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I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing.

Not Pretending Be Ingenious
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I don't understand how any good art could fail to be political.

Don't Understand How Good
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The man's world must become a man's and a woman's world. Why are we afraid?

Man World Woman Afraid
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Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.

Good Novels Fiction Creates
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My one aim and concentrated purpose shall be and is to show that women can learn, can reason, can compete with men in the grand fields of literature and science . . .

Aim Concentrated Women Learn
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It is the next step forward on the path to the sunrise, and the sun is rising over a new heaven and a new earth.

Sunrise Next Step Heaven
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Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'.

Every Time Write New
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. . . a woman can be a woman and a true one without having all her time engrossed by dress and society.

Woman True Engrossed Dress
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I wish the air were pure oxygen, and then as it says in our chemistry book, our life would sweep through its fevered burning course in a few hours and we would live in a perfect delirium of excitement and would die vibrating with passion, for anything would be better than this lazy sluggish life.

Passion Oxygen Chemistry Book
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I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense of the future and my attachment to it.

Count All The Way
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One man's mind differs from another man's mind far more widely than all women's minds differ from all men.

Man Minds Differ Widely
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I've always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control over the world that that can render.

Always Seen The World
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I practice reading all the time. I read everything and having so many scripts to read, which really helps out as well.

Everything Having Helps Many
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I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.

Grew Up Aware All
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