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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.

Audiences Blues Like Miserable
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It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art.

Admire Art Become Creative
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I'm one of those regular weird people.

People Regular Those Weird
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I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the art.

Art Brings Depend Good
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If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.

Back Good Hold Holding
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I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader.

Coupled Desire Desperate Hostility
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I have to have the 'umph.' I've got to feel it, because if it's not getting through to me, the audience sure as hell aren't going to feel it either.

Audience Because Either Feel
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I'm a victim of my own insides. There was a time when I wanted to know everything. It used to make me very unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn't know what to do with it. But now I've learned to make that feeling work for me.

Everything Feeling Just Know
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The other half is to dramatize the fact that we still 'are' human beings, now. Or can be.

Beings Fact Half Human
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I just think that fiction that isn't exploring what it means to be human today isn't art.

Art Exploring Fiction Human
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All of a sudden, someone threw me in front of this rock and roll band. And I decided then and there that was it. I never wanted to do anything else.

Anything Anything Else Band Decided
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We're not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader's own life 'outside' the story changes the story.

Changes Idea Keen Life
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I've been looking around, and I noticed something: how much you really need to be loved. Ambition isn't just a desperate quest for positions or money. It's just love - lots of love.

Ambition Around Been Desperate
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The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush.

Becomes Eyes God Over
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As it gets closer and more probable, being a star is really losing its meaning.
Being Closer Gets Losing
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It looks like you can write a minimalist piece without much bleeding. And you can. But not a good one.

Bleeding Good Like Looks
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The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.

Apart Flaws Great Irony
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We're kind of wishing some parents would come back. And of course we're uneasy about the fact that we wish they'd come back - I mean, what's wrong with us?

Come Course Fact Kind
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As a small child in England, I had this dream of going to Africa. We didn't have any money and I was a girl, so everyone except my mother laughed at it. When I left school, there was no money for me to go to university, so I went to secretarial college and got a job.

Africa Any Child College
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Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.

Believe Change Dialogue Doing
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Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.

Life Comedy Who think Tragedy
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The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.

Whole secret Life Profoundly Thousand things
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Who has begun has half done. Have the courage to be wise. Begin!

Begun Half done Courage Wise
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We are largely the playthings of our fears. To one, fear of the dark; to another, of physical pain; to a third, of public ridicule; to a fourth, of poverty; to a fifth, of loneliness ... for all of us, our particular creature waits in ambush.

Playthings Our fear Physical pain
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When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.

People Weed Own mind Overrun
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The curse of modern times is, that almost everything does create controversy.

Modern times Everything Create controversy
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To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know.

Common sense Moment Best wisdom
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History is a romance that is believed; romance, a history that is not believed.

History Romance Believe
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Cunning is neither the consequence of sense, nor does it give sense. A proof that it is not sense, is that cunning people never imagine that others can see through them. It is the consequence of weakness.

Cunning Consequence Sense See through
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I know that I have had friends who would never have vexed or betrayed me, if they had walked on all fours.

Had friends Vexed Betrayed me Walked
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It is difficult to divest one's self of vanity; because impossible to divest one's self of self-love.

Difficult Vanity Impossible Self love
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The contempt of money is no more a virtue than to wash one's hand is one; but one does not willingly shake hands with a man that never washes his.

Contempt Money Virtue Wash
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Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie

Justice Activity Truth Virtue
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Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.

Greater things Perform World Bill
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Lawyers and rogues are vermin not easily rooted out of a rich soil.
Lawyers Rogue Easily rooted Rich soil
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It is only the future in which I am really vitally interested.

Only Future Vitally interested
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Do the impossible, because almost everyone has told me my ideas are merely fantasies.

Impossible Almost everyone Ideas Fantasies
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Sure striving for doing the impossible means being obsessed, it’s constant persistence. But isn’t this a sign of a life worth living, rather than one spent sitting on the sofa?

Doing Impossible Being obsessed Constant persistence
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I intend to be, the richest man in the world.

Intended Richest man World
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I want to be remembered for only one thing: my contribution to aviation.

I want Remembered Contribution Aviation
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I am by nature a perfectionist, and I seem to have trouble allowing anything to go through in a half-perfect condition. So if I made any mistake it was in working too hard and in doing too much of it with my own hands.

By nature Perfectionist Trouble Mistake
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I am willing to go beyond all limitations

Willing To go All limitations
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If we worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true really is true, then there would be little hope for advance.

Worked on Assumption True Hope
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If you have a workforce that enjoys each other, they trust each other, they trust management, they’re proud of where they work – then they’re going to deliver a good product.

Workforce Enjoys Trust management Good product
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I have my own religion. My conception of religion is being to the other fellow what you would like for him to be to you and do what you think is necessary to be the type of man that God could appreciate

Own religion My conception Fellow God
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This is a business. The purpose of a business is to make money. If it happens to make art, too, that would be secondary and accidental.

Business Make money Art Accidental
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Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.

Living Dream Yesterday Impossible
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It’s so important to experience what your customers are experiencing and listen to their suggestions

Important Experience Customers Suggestions
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Adventure is the essence of life.
Adventure Essence Life
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The trouble with my life is that I do not think I am cut out to sit behind a desk

Trouble Life Think Sit
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