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You have no idea the plans God has for your life, so don't count yourself out!

Idea God Plans Yourself
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The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
Correction Eye Friend Know
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
Identity Idle Personal Requires
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Inside me there is a fat man dying to get out.

Dying Fat FatMan Get
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I did the rock 'n roll-pop cliche of getting burnt out. I'm not the first person that happened to, and I'm sure I won't be the last.

Burnt Cliche Did First
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I'm a born entertainer. When I open the fridge door and the light goes on, I burst into song.

Born Burst Door Entertainer
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I didn't become an actor to make money. And I didn't become an actor to be famous - though people always gasp if you say that, as if it's unfathomable that an actor doesn't want to be a star.

Actor Always Become Famous
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I'm interested in the idea that we all start off as these lovely little babies with all this potential but that circumstances mean that we don't always live the life we should.

Always Babies Circumstances Idea
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I know I've said it before in interviews, but the idea that all actors have their eye on some sort of prize - it being an Oscar, or fame, or whatever - not all actors I know are like that.

Actor Before Being Eye
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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 become very territorial about my identity because it's been hijacked by so many people with their own projections.

About Because Become Been
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You know when you're a kid and you get to pick a movie every Friday? I watched everything. There's no particular genre that was appealing. I just loved the idea that you could dress up and play.

Appealing Could Dress Every
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Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

Accident counts Companionship Marriage
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Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

Absolute liberty Responsibility Free individual
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Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

Power Poison Tragic
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Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms.

Arms Better BetterWay Example
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You wanna get rid of drug crime in this country? Fine, let's just get rid of all the drug laws.

Country Crime Fine Get
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The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.

Element Esteem Free FreeSociety
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How did we win the election in the year 2000? We talked about a humble foreign policy: No nation-building; don't police the world. That's conservative, it's Republican, it's pro-American - it follows the founding fathers. And, besides, it follows the Constitution.

About Besides Conservative Constitution
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I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card.

About Anything Anytime Away
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It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.

Arriving Been Difference Has Been
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Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.

Abstract Any Back Beginning
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Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within.

Different Go Matter Modern
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The idea that you must treat actors a certain way in order to get a performance out of them kind of disturbs me, and it's disregarding what we do. Our job is to do our job.

Actor Certain CertainWay Get
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Stories about race and identity pique my interest for obvious reasons. That's in my body, my brain, my history, my memories - it's all part of my toolbox as an actor.

About Actor Body Brain
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I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to sign in an idiomatic, irreplaceable manner.

Believe Desire I Think Idioms
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I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous.

Being Difficult Give Just
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People have always made assumptions about me. I become very territorial about my identity because it's been hijacked by so many people with their own projections.

About Always Assumptions Because
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The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was sick all the time, or in any case frail, on the edge of a nervous breakdown.

Any Breakdown Case Edge
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Whatever precautions you take so the photograph will look like this or that, there comes a moment when the photograph surprises you. It is the other's gaze that wins out and decides.

Decide Gaze Like Look
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Who ever said that one was born just once?

Born Ever Just Once
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I think a lot of actors feel like outsiders or miscreants. This profession provides an opportunity to play out all the different parts of ourselves.

Actor Different Feel Like
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I didn't really understand racism because I grew up in an all-black society, so I didn't see how it was possible not to like me!

Because Grew How Like
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For me, writing isn't a way of being public or private; it's just a way of being. The process is always full of pain, but I like that. It's a reality, and I just accept it as something not to be avoided.

Accept Always Avoided Being
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What distinguished my life from my brother's is that my mother didn't like me. When I became a woman, I seemed to repel her.

Became Brother Distinguished Her
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I have a sense of destiny because of my mother, who was an extraordinary person but a terrible candidate for mother. She was like the god Cronus, who gave birth to his children in the morning and then ate them at night.

Ate Because Birth Candidate
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I didn't know it was possible to be successful as a writer, so I wasn't afraid to fail.
Afraid Fail Know Possible
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I do not 'get' ideas; ideas get me.
Get Ideas Me
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The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer.

However Inevitably Inexperienced Influences
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The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.

Fact Full Future Notion
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Tristan and Isolde were lucky to die when they did. They'd have been sick of all that rubbish in a year.

Been Did Die Lucky
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There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.
Communal Defend Doctrine Every
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Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman's heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned.

Every man Succeeded Effort Divinity
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Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.

Science Existence Mankind Power
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Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Life Isolate Among men Trouble
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I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.

Think Excess Responsive youth Chilled age
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?

Character Determination Incident
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You don't have freedom because you are a hyphenated American; you have freedom because you are an individual, and that should be protected.

American Because Freedom Individual
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There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it.

Come Creator Freedom Government
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Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
Money Thing Follow Charming
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