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Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important.

Right Now Think Censorship
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I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.

Never Worry About Diets
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The score never interested me, only the game.

The Score Never Interested
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I didn't discover curves; I only uncovered them.

Didn't Discover Curves Only
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They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

Bay Died Filthy Hard
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Aesthetic criticism returns us to the autonomy of imaginative literature and the sovereignty of the solitary soul, the reader not as a person in society but as the deep self, our ultimate inwardness.

Criticism Imagination Literature Soul
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I define influence simply as literary love, tempered by defense. The defenses vary from poet to poet. But the overwhelming presence of love is vital to understanding how great literature works.

Love Literature I
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He can’t think, he can’t write. There’s no discernible talent.

Think Write Talent
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I only knew classical music, which to me was the only true music. The only way I could survive at the bar was to mix the classical music with popular songs, and that meant I had to sing. What happened was that I discovered I had a voice plus the talent to mix classical music together with more popular songs, which at the time I detested.

Classical music Survive Song Voice
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I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States.

Future Literary No Future Say
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If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit.

Abandon Academy Alleviate Classes
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Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.

About Any Art Beyond
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Shakespeare is the true multicultural author. He exists in all languages. He is put on the stage everywhere. Everyone feels that they are represented by him on the stage.

Author Everyone Everywhere Exists
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My job is not done. I address my songs now to the third world. I am popular all over Asia and Africa and the Middle East, not to speak of South Africa, where I'm trying to go to see Nelson Mandela.

Job Song World Middle East
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What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.

Any Call Exclude Mostly
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All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.
Affection AllMyLife Been Every
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What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love.

Amongst Art Artist Audience
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Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.

Belong Change Growth Nothing
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I think there are opportunities outside India as well as in India. In fact, some of the largest projects that most Indian software companies are doing are in India.

Companies Doing Fact I Think
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I would be very happy to go to America. America is where I was raised and that's exactly what I want.

America Exactly Exactly What Go
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I, perhaps wrongly, assume that people actually read articles that interest them rather than just headlines.

Actually Articles Assume Headlines
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I think the thing that our government lacks - just about more than anything else - is technological competence. We have some of the greatest white-hat hackers in the world here in the U.S., but the government seems to be technologically illiterate.

About Anything Anything Else Competence
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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.

Affects Brand Censorship Experienced
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The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand.

Between Committed Eye Fade
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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.

Am Convinced I Am Innocence
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.

Authority Like Moral Moral Authority
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Jealousy, greed, fear. We're all full of these things. But also love and compassion. If you saw a drowning baby, it wouldn't matter if you were wearing a tuxedo on the way to your own wedding. You'd jump in to save him.

Also Baby Compassion Drowning
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I am always interested in helping and growing new tech start-ups and ideas.

Always Am Growing Helping
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There was a time I was very much blaming the way I felt on L.A, that it was a vacuum of creativity, of humor or anything organic, and I was really angry at the place. But then today I feel completely different - I love L.A.!

Angry Anything Blaming Creativity
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I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff.

Always Books Darker Drama
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My fragile connection with the world of polite society has, without a doubt, been severed.

Been Connection Doubt Fragile
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I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

Disputes Friend Few Foe
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I feel as much British as I do American. There's not much difference between our countries.

American Between British Countries
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I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: 'not sexy,' 'not funny,' 'too intense,' desperate.' All those labels they gave me, I took them because there wasn't a trace of my true self left.

Because Believed Desperate Everything
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I had disagreements with all my neighbors about my dogs. I had a disagreement with myself about my dogs. They were noisy.

About Disagreement Dogs Had
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There is dissatisfaction in all of us. Some of us take out that dissatisfaction by attempting to ruin whatever you are attempting to do. This is a fact of life.

Attempting Dissatisfaction Fact Life
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It's always nerve-racking to take off your clothes on film. But doing it with a woman felt safer than with a man. You know you can say, 'Don't grab me there: That's where my cellulite is'!

Always Clothes Doing Felt
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There's always a little bit of personal satisfaction when you prove somebody wrong.

Wrong Prove Bit Little
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On set is where I feel comfortable. The red carpet stuff, talking about the film, explaining your own life, it doesn't come naturally. It's all necessary stuff I suppose but it's not my strength.

About Carpet Come Comfortable
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There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it.
Act Ashamed Closet Gonna
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There's a set of rules out there somewhere that says it all ends by 40. I hope to be able to defy that because I truly love my work.

Able Because Defy Ends
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I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.

About After Ask Because
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I'm not sure why I still think of myself as 28 - maybe that's the point where you start growing up, and then you just feel the same for evermore.

Evermore Feel Growing Growing Up
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Each day, you get an ounce more confidence. When we're playing like we are, there's no reason not to.

Reason Playing Ounce Each
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It has been an interesting road, but I wouldn't trade any of it for the world, because I feel like all of those instances in my life I felt molded me and strengthened me and made me who I am.

Felt Life Road Feel
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I have written 20 books, and each one is like having a baby. Writing is not easy; some people want to write books but just can't put a story together. I can put together a story that interests both me and my readers.

Baby Books Both Each
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There are no tricks to balancing work and family. It is a struggle all the time, and you just do your best. I think men are much better at compartmentalising.

Balancing Best Better Do Your Best
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Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else would be either.

All-Around Anyone Anyone Else Around
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Authors change publishers because it's like being married for a long time and suddenly you want to go out and have a wild affair! No, not seriously, sometimes the deal is more interesting with a new publisher, and other times they have more enthusiasm for your books.

Affair Authors Because Being
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The use of violence in movies is a subject that's worth addressing. I'm not standing on a soapbox or wagging a finger, but I'm interested in those subjects for sure.

Addressing Finger Interested Movies
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