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All of my books have the potential to become movies, it's just a question of finding a studio who wants to get behind me and put up the money to make the movie.

Become Behind Books Finding
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Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.

About Always Attached Craving
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Maybe in the workplace I have more courage than other areas in my life.
Area Courage Life Maybe
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As you get older, you overthink and can talk yourself out of anything. It's good to be a bit reckless and experimental.

Anything Bit Experimental Get
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People are intrigued by fame, power and wealth and I think Hollywood is the only place where you get all three together.

Fame Get Hollywood I Think
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I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught.

About Anybody Basically Caught
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If you behave normally, people treat you normally. It's only when you act as if you're someone special that they feel obliged to stand on ceremony.

Act Behave Ceremony Feel
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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
Above Both Loses People
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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

Clothed Cold Every Fed
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The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give it to them.

Peace Day People Leaders
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There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

Love Cure Faith Energy
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If you are not being bullied all I would say - cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well - is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there's someone in your class that maybe doesn't have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person.

About Being Bigger Bullied
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A lot of panel programmes rely on men topping each other, or sparring with each other, which is not generally a very female thing.

Each Female Generally Lot
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I once went to one of those parties where everyone throws their car keys into the middle of the room. I don't know who got my moped, but I drove that Peugeot for years.

Car Car Keys Drove Everyone
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I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.

Difficult Element Exist Fact
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So there's nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who's cool hates - and then making it cool.
Cool Everybody Genre Hates
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In most communities it is illegal to cry 'fire' in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?

Aims Achieve Effort Scare
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Well, I think there's not much of a chance for me finding somebody of my age. Gentlemen of my age are dropping down 30 years to find girlfriends.

Age Chance Down Dropping
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In my 20s I was going round seeing agents who were patronising because I was fat and a girl, which was a double whammy. I knew what it was to feel out-of-the-loop.

Agents Because Double Fat
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It is far more important to be able to hit the target than it is to haggle over who makes a weapon or who pulls a trigger.

Able Far Hit Over
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All my friends started getting boyfriends, but I didn't want a boyfriend, I wanted a thirteen-colour biro.
All My Friends Boyfriend Boyfriend Friends
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I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts.

Courts Obey Orders Troops
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Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Age Fear Few Long
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If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.

Cannot Problem Solved
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A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost.

Acknowledge Battle Lost Which
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It takes 15,000 casualties to train a major general.
Casualties General Major Takes
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Regulations are all very well for drill, but in the hour of danger they are no more use. You have to learn to think.

Drill Hour Danger Regulations
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When you're around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it's not strange, it's just Gaga.

Around Breathe Gaga Just
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I have never had plastic surgery, and there are many pop singers who have.
Had Many Never Plastic
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I don't like L.A. It's just not fun. I don't know why, but I just don't get it. You have to drive to get everywhere, and when it rains everybody freaks out.

Drive Everybody Everywhere Freaks
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If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.

Ability Include Peaceful War
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Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

Heritage Fruitful Free Protect
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The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

Human Process First Wisdom
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Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Filled Purpose Empty Age
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Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

Hunger Nationalism Power Self-Deception
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We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.

Affliction Better Forget God
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
Also Corrupt Corrupts Language
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The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

Aims Between Clear Enemy
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Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

Duty First Intelligent Men
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The more you play against teams and defenders, the more you get to know them. You know if they are more nervous; you know, on the pitch, people are different. I try to adapt to their character.

Adapt People Nervous Teams
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Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

About Bring Chaos Connected
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In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.
Age Folly Hatred Issues
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In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

Defense Largely Our Our Time
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No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
Altogether Back His Look
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Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

Appearance Designed Give Language
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Why are people surprised when others change? Only a statue doesn't change.

Change Surprise Statute People
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Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

Adult Age Eight Expose
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Before you are tempted to get depressed, consider those who have a harder life than you and yet are happy.
Depressed Harder Life Happy
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If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?

Advantage Any Appears Cannot
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To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

About Actual Cities Civilization
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