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The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was sick all the time, or in any case frail, on the edge of a nervous breakdown.

Any Breakdown Case Edge
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I didn't really understand racism because I grew up in an all-black society, so I didn't see how it was possible not to like me!

Because Grew How Like
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What distinguished my life from my brother's is that my mother didn't like me. When I became a woman, I seemed to repel her.

Became Brother Distinguished Her
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I have a sense of destiny because of my mother, who was an extraordinary person but a terrible candidate for mother. She was like the god Cronus, who gave birth to his children in the morning and then ate them at night.

Ate Because Birth Candidate
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I didn't know it was possible to be successful as a writer, so I wasn't afraid to fail.
Afraid Fail Know Possible
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Tristan and Isolde were lucky to die when they did. They'd have been sick of all that rubbish in a year.

Been Did Die Lucky
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I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.

Think Excess Responsive youth Chilled age
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A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
Diamond Chunk Coal Under pressure
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I can write anywhere. I actually wrote more than I ever did when I had small children. My children were never a hindrance.

Actually Anywhere Children Did
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Whatever I did, there was always someone around who was better qualified. They just didn't bother to do it.

Always Around Better Bother
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Whenever I start a book, I swear it's going to be a short one. But then it's, 'Who was his grandfather? And how did he get there in the first place? And what kind of animals is he chasing?'

Animals Book Chasing Did
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I did the thing with bonds, which was about 30 million dollars, and didn't get none of the money on them.

About Bonds Did Dollars
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By the late 1980s people realized that houses did not always appreciate and that they could fluctuate like any other market commodity.

1980s Always Any Appreciate
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The important thing is that those 20 boys know in 20 years, they didn’t leave anything on the table. They played their hearts out. That’s the important thing.

Important thing Boys Years Leave anything
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The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.

I enjoyed most Visit Children Public office
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Doesn't the devil live forever; who ever heard that the devil was dead? Did you ever see any person wearing mourning for the devil?

Devil Live forever Heard Dead
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For no one, in our long decline, So dusty, spiteful and divided, Had quite such pleasant friends as mine, Or loved them half as much as I did.

Long decline So dusty Spiteful Pleasant friends
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I certainly didn't think of myself as gifted. The standards for being gifted in my environment were if you were good in Little League or if you were good in football.

Being Certainly Environment Football
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It was not pre-arranged. It just happened that the driver made a demand and I just didn't feel like obeying his demand. I was quite tired after spending a full day working.

After Day Demand Driver
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People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I was not tired physically... No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.

Always Because Give Giving
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Well, the first year I lost my voice I didn't mind so much because I was going to have a baby and I was distracted with him anyway, I didn't even think about it that much, well, OK, this is what's happening.

About Anyway Baby Because
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I think Ralph Nader is the biggest liar in American politics when he said it didn't matter who was president.

American Politics Biggest He
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If you didn't have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you?

Idealism Sense Some Sustain
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I was against gay marriage until I realized I didn't have to get one.
Against Gay Gay Marriage Get
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I've worked on enough campaigns to know that the most aggrieved candidate rarely emerges victorious.

Campaigns Candidate Emerges Enough
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When I was wrong about the 2002 elections, I dumped a garbage can on my head. When my John Kerry prediction didn't pan out in 2004, I smashed an egg on my face.

About Dumped Egg Elections
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My high school job was putting insulation in attics - in Louisiana in the summer. It must have been 95 degrees every day, and the insulation used to get all over me. It was not fun. But I didn't know any different. It wasn't like I was spending summers on Cape Cod.

Any Been Cape Day
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It is literally painful to watch Rick Perry as a candidate.

Candidate Literally Painful Perry
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My husband and I didn't sign a pre-nuptial agreement. We signed a mutual suicide pact.

Agreement Husband Mutual Pact
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The luckiest thing that ever happened to me was that my father didn't believe in God, and so he had no hang-ups about souls.

About Believe Ever Father
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My wife and I have a schizophrenic son. We didn't want to accept this for 30 years, so we put him under great pressure when we shouldn't have. He just wanted to be looked after, and we didn't respect that. We tried to make him independent.

Accept After Great He
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When I was a child, I wanted to be an actor, but I had really bad buckteeth. I didn't want to get braces, but my mom said I couldn't be an actor if I didn't get the braces. So, I got the braces.

Actor Bad Braces Child
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I was down with Lucinda Williams and Mary Chapin-Carpenter. We did an acoustic tour, just the three of us, three chicks and three guitars.

Acoustic Chicks Did Down
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Because I was starting out in my 20's. I wanted to do it on my own. I didn't want to use my dad or have people say I was using him.

Because Dad Him MyOwn
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When we were doing 'Freaks and Geeks', I didn't quite understand how movies and TV worked, and I would improvise even if the camera wasn't on me. I thought I was helping the other actors by keeping them on their toes, but nobody appreciated it when I would trip them up. So I was improvising a little bit back then, but not in a productive way.

Actor Appreciated Back Bit
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I used to read a lot about myself and the projects I was doing. When I was only acting, I wouldn't read any reviews because I didn't find them to be very helpful.

About Acting Any Because
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Because acting was my only professional outlet, I put a ton of pressure on the roles that I did. I overstepped my bounds, I tried to control things that were out of my purview as an actor and in some cases even tried to direct my scenes because I felt I knew how they should run rather than trust the director.

Acting Actor Because Bounds
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I didn't get married to get divorced.

Divorced Get GetMarried Married
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I've loved Danielle Spencer since 1989 - that's never going to change - and that's one of those things where I stare at her and go, 'How did it fail?' I still can't work it out, because my feelings for her have never changed.

Because Change Changed Did
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As a boy, I'd always had an interest in theater. But the idea at my school was that drama and music were to round out the man. It wasn't what one did for a living. I got over that.

A boy Interest Theater Idea
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It dawned on me that acting was what I wanted to do with my life. Nothing had ever touched my heart like acting did.

Acting My life My heart
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I was raised on government cheese. As an adult, in my first marriage, my husband and I worked real hard just to go bankrupt. I happened to write some jokes about it. I did real well for myself.

About Adult Bankrupt Cheese
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Nothing real or truthful makes its way to TV unless you are smart and know how to sneak it in, and I would tell you how I did it, but then I would have to kill you.

Did How Know Makes
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The people gave me the responsibility of building the future of this nation And I did it with honor.

People Responsibility Building Future
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What family you were born into matters so much more than it did before in a perverse way.

Before Born Family Matters
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James Brown's music still sounds as fresh and as good and as new as it did when he first created it.

Brown Created Did First
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I cannot recall any moment of clarity about becoming a writer. I always liked to read. That's what did it.

About Always Any Becoming
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Never did a government commence under auspices so favorable, nor ever was success so complete.

Commence Complete Did Ever
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My worst hair experience was when I was trying to relax my hair and my grandmother did it. It went all straight and I looked like a black Bee Gee.

Bee Black Did Experience
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I really wanted to just be a musician. I didn't want to be anything else, but I was funny and all that.

Anything Anything Else Else Funny
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