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I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.

Actor Audience Author Business
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No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.

Becomes Error Him His
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The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.

Because Breaking Destroying Different
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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?

Does Dream Dry Explode
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The Jewish people and the Negro people both know the meaning of Nordic supremacy. We have both looked into the eyes of terror.

Both Eyes Jewish Jewish People
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I don't have an alarm clock. If someone needs to wake me up, then I have my BlackBerry next to me.

Alarm Blackberry Clock Me
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In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.

Compulsion Denies Fantasies Far
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We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

Bought Dearly Derive Errors
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There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.

Calculate Cure Discard Error
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My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.

Been Errors Failures Intent
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I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

Attempt Believe Come Enigma
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Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.

Affects Directly Ought Reality
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Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that happened because of an imaginary tale.

America Australia Because Captain
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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Error Pursuit Source Truth
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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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The kidnapped person is so tantalizingly close, kept alive by a devastating hope. Kidnapping or hostage-taking is perhaps the most disturbing form of terror because it turns this hope into a liability that can paralyze.

Alive Because Close Devastating
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The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

Ashore Dangerous Dangers Fishermen
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When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

Go Need Out Paint
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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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This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it.
Almost Anyway Bit Business
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The Arab League tells us to go in and take out Qaddafi. We've spent billions of dollars already with respect to the Arab League. Billions of dollars, because they told us to do it. Why aren't they paying for it? They don't like Qaddafi, Qaddafi's been a terrible thorn in their side.

Arab Because Billions Dollars
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It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.

Achieves Better Cost Evil
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In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.

Corners Easy Escapes Fuss
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Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.

Both Fight Groups Images
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In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.

Act Consumption Deeply Endless
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True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and they infiltrate and alter consciousness in ways that writers used to aspire to.

Alter Aspire Consciousness Deep
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In the real world, immeasurable hurt is caused by terrorists based in Pakistan who attack countries like India.

Attack Based Caused Countries
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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

Being Deepest Everything Help
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My kids are coming up in a different time then me. Interracial couples are of the norm. With me, it's about making sure my kids understand the importance of education and having opportunities that I didn't. My goal as a parent is to make sure they don't take what they have for granted.

Kids Coming Up Different
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You need to live in a dome initially, but over time you could terraform Mars to look like Earth and eventually walk around outside without anything on... So it's a fixer-upper of a planet.

Anything Around Could Dome
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I chose to embrace the spirit of my mother, who, though she had too many of her own dreams denied, deferred, and destroyed, she still instilled in me, her child, that I could have dreams and that I did have a responsibility and the power.

Child Chose Could Denied
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Trying to read our DNA is like trying to understand software code - with only 90% of the code riddled with errors. It's very difficult in that case to understand and predict what that software code is going to do.

Case Code Difficult DNA
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I have two or three cars that I like, but today, Ferrari would be the best car I have driven in terms of being an impressive car.

Being Best Car Driven
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The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

Days Doing Done Fast
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All of a sudden to get all of this attention, and to be away from home and working all the time was hard. I was on planes all the time. I didn't see my friends. I cried a lot. It was quite terrifying

Sudden All Get Attention
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My brothers and I grew up on stories about our grandfather building one-room schoolhouses and about our grandparents' courtship and their early lives together in Indian Territory.

About Brothers Building Courtship
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I will say this: In order for the planet to survive, there are going to be acts of ecoterrorism.

Acts Going Order Planet
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You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated - not nearly as black and white as we're led to believe.

Issues Terribly Black White
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Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.

Ground Past Theatre Cities
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I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her.

Her Interrupt Spoken Want
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.

Absolute Danger Effect Except
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It's populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling.

Area Communication Communication Skills Day
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The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

English English Language Government Help
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The Internet is overrated. It's much smaller an innovation than people think it is. I don't think it's changed the way anybody makes music.

Anybody Changed Innovation Internet
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Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time.
Because Jewelry Me Pain
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I've always said to my men friends, If you really care for me, darling, you will give me territory. Give me land, give me land.

Always Care Darling Friends
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If there was one decision I would overrule, it would be 'Citizens United.' I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

Buy Citizens Decision Democracy
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It won't happen. It would be an impossible dream. But I'd love to see 'Citizens United' overruled.

Citizens Dream Happen Impossible
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If I could wear any label forever it would be Burberry. It covers a huge span of stuff. You can't go wrong with a classic trench and a pair of jeans

Any Classic Could Covers
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I would love to persuade Christopher Bailey to get even just a section of Burberry that's, like, organic or free trade. I love him, he's a very good person and an amazing designer, and I have a lot of respect and time for him.

Amazing Christopher Designer Even
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