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I grew up in an area of Ireland where there weren't many black or mixed-race children. But I never had any hassle; maybe I've blocked it out, but I don't think so.

Any Area Black Blocked
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I've had to make friends with an awful lot of bad fashion choices.
Awful AwfulLot Bad Choices
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Ninety percent of my roles, I've had to fight for. It's only a really small percentage of people who get handed roles.

Fight Get Had Handed
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I didn't have that many black people in my life, so I had to sort of search them out. And I didn't grow up in America, but I identified as much with their writing about the black experience as I did with their writing about the human experience.

About America Black Did
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I have not been aggressive in my pursuit of being a star. I've never had a plan. Maybe I need to be more aggressive, because it's quite tough!

Aggressive Because Been Being
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I've always had sort of an interest in American history, full stop, and especially people who contributed to the civil rights struggle.
Always American Civil Full
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Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

Power Poison Tragic
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I had a very peripatetic childhood, so I bounced around. Lived in Ethiopia until I was, like, three or four and then lived between Ireland and London.

Around Between Childhood Ethiopia
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Capitalism should not be condemned, since we haven't had capitalism.

Capitalism Condemned Had Should
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I have always had school sickness, as others have seasickness. I cried when it was time to go back to school long after I was old enough to be ashamed of such behavior.

After Always Ashamed Back
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I have always had trouble recognizing myself in the features of the intellectual playing his political role according to the screenplay that you are familiar with and whose heritage deserves to be questioned.

According Always Deserves Familiar
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In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already models were instructing the dream, a certain language governed it.

Algeria Begun Certain Dream
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Everyone who knew me as a child, they say they're not surprised that I became a writer because I wrote all the time. I don't remember writing, because I wouldn't have had the tools, but I think what they are saying is that I would pretend I was a writer.

Became Because Child Everyone
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We wanted to meet him, for though we were neither of us naive people we had not wholly lost our belief that it is delightful to meet artists who have given us pleasure.

Artists Belief Delightful Given
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Woe to the statesman whose arguments for entering a war are not as convincing at its end as they were at the beginning,” Bismarck had cautioned.

Statesman Arguments Convincing End
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Prices are going up. Unemployment continues to go up. And we have not had the necessary correction for the financial bubble created by our Federal Reserve system.

Bubble Correction Created Federal
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I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book.

Because Book Dictionary Else
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I can write anywhere. I actually wrote more than I ever did when I had small children. My children were never a hindrance.

Actually Anywhere Children Did
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I had to tell about my colonic, which expresses the fact why I'm so neat today as opposed to a few years ago. I never knew that the weight made that much difference.

About Difference Expresses Fact
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Like Christ said, love thee one another. I learned to do that, and I learned to respect and be appreciative and thankful for what I had.

Another Appreciative Christ Had
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I had the privilege of practicing medicine in the early '60s, before we had any government. It worked rather well, and there was nobody on the street suffering with no medical care.

Any Before Care Early
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Open-heart surgery is now part of a typical life experience for many people. Folks talk casually about 'having a stent put in,' as if they had their tires rotated.

About Casually Experience Folks
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If men had wings and bore black feathers, Few of them would be clever enough to be crows.

Men Wings Black feathers Clever
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Well, I had a wonderful career.

Career Had Well Wonderful
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In the 1920s, Wall Street was a world that was really dominated by professional speculators and stock pools. These people had a monopoly over information.

1920s Dominated Had Information
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When news of the crash came, probably a lot of people in small towns and farms across America felt a sense of grim satisfaction that the sinners had finally been punished for their wicked ways.

Across America Been Came
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We really haven't had very much experience with people funding their retirement out of the stock market, and we don't know, frankly, how it would work under every scenario.

Every Experience Frankly Funding
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Hamilton had one of those extraordinary 18th-century minds that touched on virtually every major topic of the day.

Day Every Extraordinary Had
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The very action of the proletariat is a determining factor in history. And although we can no more jump over the stages of historical development than a man can jump over his shadow, nevertheless, we can accelerate or retard that development.

Accelerate Action Although Determining
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Early on, New York already had a national and even international identity.

Early Even Had Identity
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I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.
Only person Distinction Depression
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Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.

Against Desire Fingers Had
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I have never imagined doing anything other than football, but now, thinking about it coldly, if I hadn't been a footballer, I would have been a musician.

Amanda Nunes Willian Topics About Anything Been
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For no one, in our long decline, So dusty, spiteful and divided, Had quite such pleasant friends as mine, Or loved them half as much as I did.

Long decline So dusty Spiteful Pleasant friends
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Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.

Loss Possession Death Life
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I had pictured myself as a filmmaker but I had never pictured myself as a director if that makes any sense at all.

Any Director Filmmaker Had
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I had read tons of science fiction. I was fascinated by other worlds, other environments. For me, it was fantasy, but it was not fantasy in the sense of pure escapism.

Environments Escapism Fantasy Fascinated
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I watched a couple of really bad directors work, and I saw how they completely botched it up and missed the visual opportunities of the scene when we had put things in front of them as opportunities. Set pieces, props and so on.

Bad Couple Directors Front
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At the time I was arrested I had no idea it would turn into this. It was just a day like any other day. The only thing that made it significant was that the masses of the people joined in.

Any Arrested Day Had
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I had felt for a long time that, if I was ever told to get up so a white person could sit, that I would refuse to do so.

Could Ever Felt Get
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I think people had somehow gotten the sense that we have explored everything, when that isn't the case. We so know so little about the ocean, and so much of it is being destroyed.

About Being Case Destroyed
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I had a remarkably happy childhood; whatever scars I have are self-inflicted.
Childhood Had Happy Happy Childhood
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Now it happened that this Candaules was in love with his own wife; and not only so, but thought her the fairest woman in the whole world. This fancy had strange consequences.

Happened In love Wife Fairest woman
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The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.

Planned badly Fortune Stroke Luck
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The luckiest thing that ever happened to me was that my father didn't believe in God, and so he had no hang-ups about souls.

About Believe Ever Father
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I've had strong opinions probably since I was born. It makes you unpopular, but what can you do?

Born Had I Was Born Makes
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I don't want 100 different cures of cancer. I want, you know, give me five. So if you had, you know, five medicines, you could do away with 90 percent of cancer. That's sort of my objective. I think we're going to do it.

Away Cancer Could Cures
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When I was a child, I wanted to be an actor, but I had really bad buckteeth. I didn't want to get braces, but my mom said I couldn't be an actor if I didn't get the braces. So, I got the braces.

Actor Bad Braces Child
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Like everyone else, I've had moments when I've felt that I've been losing my grip.

Been Else Everyone EveryoneElse
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School allowed me to have outlets so that some of the pressure was taken off the acting. Every role in every movie, I used to live or die by. Once I had these new outlets, I relaxed a lot more.

Acting Allowed Die Every
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