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A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.

Bad Cannot Does Forget
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Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.

Embryo Life Living Man
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To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

Against Healthy Instinct Like
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I've learned that every working mom is a superwoman.

Every Learned Mom Working
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.

Amazing Amazing Experience Best Experience
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But I think it is always difficult to have high expectations of yourself or anyone else.

Always Anyone Anyone Else Difficult
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Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

Always Anything Architecture Else
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This is a mean world, and everyone likes to jump in and kick people when they're down.
Down Everyone Jump Kick
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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
Idleness Men Sin Some
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Memoir is a difficult literary form to pull off when dealing with discrete and poignant moments in a life, even harder when seeking to narrate over 80 years of existence.

Dealing Difficult Even Existence
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Sometimes writing it is a good way to understand something.
Good Good Way Something Sometimes
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Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.

Character Chisel Complete Life
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Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

Disregard Duty Faith Opinion
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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.

Adventure Life Package Tour
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I don't believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn't say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It's an ongoing process.

Agent Believe Blade Body
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Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.

Deeply Ever Focus Life
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There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself.

Acknowledge Balance Between Example
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I sometimes ask people, 'Can you be aware of your own presence? Not the thoughts that you're having, not the emotions that you're having, but the very presence of your very being?' You become aware of your own presence by sensing the entire energy field in your body that is alive. And that is the totality of your presence.

Alive Aware Become Being
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The real truths of life are never entirely new to you or to anybody because there is a level deep down within you where you already know all the things, all those spiritual truths that you read or hear, and then recognize them. I say 'recognize' because you're not... it's not new.

Anybody Because Deep Down
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Exercise is amazing, from the inside out. I feel so alive and have more energy.

Alive Amazing Energy Exercise
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Lagos is a fascinatingly infuriating place that its residents love - and love to hate. Licence plates on cars here proudly display the state motto, 'Centre of Excellence,' in what often seems a sarcastic swipe at the place we live in.

Car Centre Display Excellence
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Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego's fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.

Affects Always Annihilation Around
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Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.

Another Prejudice Reduce Anymore
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Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

Being Body Deep Dependent
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Anybody who tells you they're not scared when starting a new book project is a very good liar.

Anybody Book Good Liar
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I think 'Beasts of No Nation' is a novel that hopefully will affect each person who reads it in a different way.

Affect Beasts Different Different Way
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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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There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely.

Always Being Certain Peace
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'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.

Describe Else Idea Mad
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The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way.

After Always First Friend
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I am the daughter of Nigerian immigrants. My mother is a survivor of both polio and of the Igbo genocide during her country's civil war in the late 1960s.

1960s Am Both Civil
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How I would describe my characters is absolutely different from how I would describe myself.

Absolutely Characters Describe Different
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The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

Anything Because Dangerous Evil
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My new movie, Fools Rush In, is a romantic comedy and the girl I play in that is very warm, very sweet.

Comedy Fools Girl Movie
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There is a subconscious way of taking violence as a way of expression, as a normality, and it has a lot of effects in the youth in the way they absorb education and what they hope to get out of life.

Absorb Education Effects Expression
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My whole life is about winning. I don't lose often. I almost never lose.

Almost Life Lose Never
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Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken.

Mistaken Near Over Sadly
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Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

Intelligence Man Organs Servitude
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Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Cheaper Hard Hard Work Individual
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I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.
Bed Being Home I Can
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That's something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are to recognize the little signals.

Accidental Almost Beginning Career
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And as a writer, one of the things that I've always been interested in doing is actually invading your comfort space. Because that's what we're supposed to do. Get under your skin, and make you react.

Actually Always Because Been
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It's safe to say headphones is a good business.

Business Good Headphones Safe
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All of my records, I produced, put together completely. All of them. Maybe Drake might come with an idea, and I might finish it. You gotta remember what a producer is. Quincy Jones is a producer.

Come Drake Finish Idea
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One of my major keys is actually the master keys: God.
Actually God Keys Major
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White is actually one of my favourite colours. I have a white car. I love white.

White Actually One Of
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Stop this attitude that older people ain't any good anymore! We're as good as we ever were - if we ever were any good.

Attitude Ever Good Older
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Being on a comedy tour is like traveling with family, everyone is all having a great time... then all of a sudden it turns sour. One thing gets said out of turn, and everyone is on everyone's last nerve. After an hour of silence, we all start laughing about it.

About After Being Comedy
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Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you've got something to share.

Experiences Failure Got Great
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We all think that this relationship thing is a game out here. All I'm saying to women is, 'Okay. If it's a game, here are the rules that we play by.'

Game Here Okay Out
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