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Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Goes Instrument Learning Life
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Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

Fear Hearing Me Myself
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Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

Appearance Grateful Mirror Only
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When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.

About Ask Doubt Guide
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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

Bear Burden Decided Great
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We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

Brothers Fools Learn Live
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Every time that I write a novel I am convinced for at least two years that it is the last one, because a novel is like a child. It takes two years after its birth. You have to take care of it. It starts walking, and then speaking.

After Am Because Birth
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After years of practice, I can walk into a bookstore and understand its layout in a few seconds. I can glance at the spine of a book and make a good guess at its content from a number of signs.

After Book Bookstore Content
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I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.
After Book I Think Judged
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I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could be entertaining and educational. During the evening they showed important plays, opera or Shakespeare's tragedies.

Black Black And White Channel Could
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A riot is the language of the unheard.

Language Riot Unheard
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It is clear that when you write a story that takes place in the past, you try to show what really happened in those times. But you are always moved by the suspicion that you are also showing something about our contemporary world.

About Also Always Clear
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Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it's no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.

Action Better Case Learn
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An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

Apology Books Case Devil
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Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
Aims Enjoy Learned Life
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Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.

Catch Cold Fear Lest
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Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.

Bona Doing Falls Ground
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I think for being not unsympathetic that their appearance may also appear, so differently it, must; similarly as with animals, which meet us in very different forms, which look somehow harmonious however all. On exactly such forms I would stand.

Also Animals Appear Appearance
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People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.

Christian Doubted Equally General
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I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird.

Adolescence Convinced Everyone First
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Modeling is basically 'Buy more stuff! Don't you want some more stuff? It will make you look ten years younger and men will like you!' If I'd wanted to be a salesperson, I would have got a job selling.

Basically Buy Got Job
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Before I had my child, I thought I knew all the boundaries of myself, that I understood the limits of my heart. It's extraordinary to have all those limits thrown out, to realize your love is inexhaustible.

Before Boundaries Child Had
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Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.

About All Religions Am Buddhism
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I've learned that every working mom is a superwoman.

Every Learned Mom Working
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I'm lucky to have been raised in the most beautiful place - Amherst, Massachusetts, state of my heart. I'm more patriotic to Massachusetts than to almost any place.

Almost Amherst Any Beautiful
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For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.

Be Real Character Find Heart
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For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.

Carnal Divine Pearl Precious
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I know in my heart that I can compete at multiple weights.

Compete Heart I Can Know
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When I was 23 years old, I had just finished my wrestling career. I was top 12 in the nation in the NCAA. And I was top 12 in the state in California.

California Career Finished Had
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I'm a guy who has put my heart and my soul into something, into everything that I do.

Everything Guy Heart My Soul
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I fight guys that no one has ever heard of; I fought guys who are legends, like Frankie Edgar.
Edgar Ever Fight Fought
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Memoir is a difficult literary form to pull off when dealing with discrete and poignant moments in a life, even harder when seeking to narrate over 80 years of existence.

Dealing Difficult Even Existence
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In my senior year of high school, I read an article in 'Newsweek' about child soldiers in Sierra Leone. I felt a sense of shock - this was happening in the region where I'm from, and people don't know about it. I wanted to understand.

About Article Child Felt
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I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

Heart Lost Mind Process
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If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Cannot Hear Means Paint
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It's just about keeping people who are close to me, near. It's important to have people around who love themselves, are true to themselves, who have their own hobbies and their world doesn't revolve around Hollywood.

About Around Close Hobbies
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One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.

Blazing Came Chimney Continue
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As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

Advance Becomes Developed Difficult
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The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

Death Disappears Fear Live
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There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself.

Acknowledge Balance Between Example
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The real truths of life are never entirely new to you or to anybody because there is a level deep down within you where you already know all the things, all those spiritual truths that you read or hear, and then recognize them. I say 'recognize' because you're not... it's not new.

Anybody Because Deep Down
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'Beasts of No Nation' began when I read an article about child soldiers in Sierra Leone during my final year of high school.

About Article Beasts Began
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Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego's fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.

Affects Always Annihilation Around
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Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

Anger Boredom Come Conditions
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Reading 'Search Sweet Country' is like reading a dream, and indeed, at times, it feels like the magical landscapes of writers like the Nigerian Ben Okri or the Mozambican Mia Couto.

Ben Country Dream Feels
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Everybody has an equal right to be on this earth and to be happy on this earth and to achieve on this earth. That's kind of the way that I would like to try and go about living.

About Achieve Be Happy Earth
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The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way.

After Always First Friend
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I'll definitely wear orange on the red carpet!
Carpet Definitely Orange Red
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I've heard of nothing coming from nothing, but I've never heard of absolutely nothing coming from hard work.

Absolutely Absolutely Nothing Coming Hard
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I kept hiding my smile in pictures throughout middle school and most of high school until picture day came my senior year.

Came Day Hiding High
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