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I had almost three acres of land in Beverly Hills. And I had a big atrium of chickens because I love that feeling of being in the country and living from the soil.

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I was tremendously fortunate to be alive and a lawyer, working at a university so I had more flexible hours, when the women's movement was coming alive and when it became possible to argue successfully for a view of the equal protection clause that included women.

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I've always been fascinated by Elizabeth Taylor, and I had read that her first kiss happened on a film set, which actually made me a little sad. You need to have normal experiences of your own.

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I genuinely haven't really had a rebellious phase. I think it's just because of the way I was brought up. I think it's because I left home when I was ten years old.

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I guess what really forms you as a person is what you do within your family to receive love or attention. In my family, what you had to do to receive attention was to have good conversation at the dinner table or for me to do well at school, and those were really my focuses because that was what was valued the most.

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I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, because my sins were a hindrance to me.

Age Because Before Had
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I have had the good fortune through my God that I should never abandon his people whom I have acquired in the extremities of the earth.

Abandon Acquired Earth Fortune
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We had better dispense with the personification of evil, because it leads, all too easily, to the most dangerous kind of war: religious war.

Because Better Dangerous Dispense
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My grandma said - when I was really young and I'd sing along to the radio - why do you sing in an American accent? I guess it was because a lot of the music I was listening to had American vocalists.

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If I hadn't done 'Harry Potter,' I would have gone and done years of art. I really do love it, and I'd love to write.

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The entertainment industry is pretty nuts, and having had that experience outside of it and going to university has really made a big difference. It's important to me to feel like I have my own life.

Big Big Difference Difference Entertainment
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If Willie Nelson had been Rosa Parks, there never would have been a civil rights movement in this country, because he refuses to leave the back of the bus.

Willie Nelson Had Been
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Once I had all the attention, all I had to do was deliver.
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Well, I just said that Jesus and I were both Jewish and that neither of us ever had a job, we never had a home, we never married and we traveled around the countryside irritating people.

Well Jesus Both Jewish
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No, nothing has changed in my life at all, and nothing would change if I had millions.

Nothing Has Changed My
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I wasn't straining at the bit to become a movie star any more than I had plotted to get out of vaudeville and into Broadway musicals.

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I don't like to read. The only things I read are gossip columns. If someone gives me a book, it had better have lots of pictures.

Better Book Columns Gives
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We've had to be creative to get on the ballot.
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Cole Porter had a worldwide reputation as a sophisticate and hedonist.

Cole Porter Had Reputation Worldwide
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I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I'd have done the same thing.

Been Done Gave Guess
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I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me.

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All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.

Books Common Good Had
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Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.

Chief Direction Had Influence
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The shadows we see on others and complain about, were cast on them by our own selves. Go to your friend and you will notice that your shadow falls on them. In truth, we see the world not as it is, but as we are. Change yourself. Change your world

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The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.

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Like every other girl in the world, my most embarrassing moment had to do with a guy completely turning me down. His loss!
Like Every Other Girl
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I just had my 30th birthday and we went turkey shooting. It's what I wanted to do, so we went.

Just Had My Birthday
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I would not be a good mother. I mean, I love being an aunt to my niece and nephew. And I used to want to, like, adopt 10 kids - because I had friends who were adopted, and I thought that was the coolest thing, to be chosen.

Would Not Be Good
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The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone.

Able Advantage Alone Being
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The thing about Christmas is that it almost doesn't matter what mood you're in or what kind of a year you've had - it's a fresh start.

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As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

Accomplishments Along Came Did
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I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.

After Bed Catalogue Description
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I want to live and feel all the shades, tones, and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.

Am Experience Feel Horribly
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A baby! I hated babies. I, who for two and a half years had been the center of a tender universe, felt the axis wrench and a polar chill immobilize my bones. I would be a bystander, a museum mammoth.

Axis Babies Baby Been
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My mother had taught shorthand and typing to support us since my father died, and secretly she hated it and hated him for dying and leaving no money because he didn't trust life insurance salesmen.

Because Died Dying Father
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I thought I would set the world on fire when I got out of college. I had done quite well in a field that was growing. Unfortunately, we got hit with a recession in 1981.

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I saw the gooseflesh on my skin. I did not know what made it. I was not cold. Had a ghost passed over? No, it was the poetry.
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I never intended to be a professional writer; as the story developed, the one thing I had in my hopes was that this would be something tangible to separate me from the nameless, numbered masses.

Developed Had Hopes Intended
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I never had a mother. I suppose a mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

Had Hurry Mother Never
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So, while I gave up the notions of publishing at that time, I never stopped editing and refining that book. A few years later, in 1987, I thought I had it ready to go out again.

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I had actually gone to a church-related college, but I went on a football scholarship, not because of any interest in the church.

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I am from a family of artists. Here I am, making a living in the arts. It has not been a rebellion. It's as though I had taken over the family Esso station.

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Coming up in the streets, I had to learn how to read people early on. I'm a very analytical person. I observe a lot of the things that people don't notice.

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The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.

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Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.

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I've had mixtapes that have been better than albums I've heard from other artists. I take my time; I put my heart into it.

Albums Artists Been Better
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I've always had a problem with the average macho man - they've always been a threat to me.
Always Had Problem With
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Whatever luck I had, I made. I was never a natural athlete, but I paid my dues in sweat and concentration and took the time necessary to learn karate and become world champion.

Athlete Become Champion Concentration
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The Apostle Paul did what he had to do to spread the message of God. I realize that that is what I have to do; I have to bite the bullet and overcome my shyness.

Apostle Bite Bullet Did
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I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I'd rather tell a story about somebody else.

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