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When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

Conversation Does Had He
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There are charms made only for distant admiration.

Admiration Charms Distant Made
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There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

Between Both Cannot Distance
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No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

Autumn Flowers Fruits He
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A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

Away Because Forgive Haste
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What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.

Food Art Consumed Dish
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It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

Advance Always Eye Know
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Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.

Choice Life Accept Action
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A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

Good He Him Inclination
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All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

Advantages Better Carries Countries
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The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.

Book Greatest Half Library
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

Converse Desire He Man
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A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.

Different Manner Might Much
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Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.

Anything Aspirations Because Between
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He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
Happily He His Married
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I wish to thank my parents for making it all possible... and I wish to thank my children for making it necessary.

Children Making Necessary Parents
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Our responsibility is to captivate you for however long we've asked for your attention. That said, there is tremendous drama to be gotten from the great, what you would say, heavy issues.

Asked Attention Drama Gotten
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I grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection.

About Beyond Dialogue Drama
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Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.

Audience Bad Getting Good
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But HBO is less interested in how many people are watching than in how much the people who are watching are liking the show. They didn't set up their business model to make writers happy. It's just a nice unintended consequence.

Business Business Model Consequence Happy
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Decisions are made by those who show up.
Decisions Made Show Those
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Don't ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it's the only thing that ever has.

Change Change The World Ever Forget
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I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I'm not afraid to look behind them.

Adventurous Afraid Behind Doors
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I love writing but hate starting. The page is awfully white, and it says, 'You may have fooled some of the people some of the time, but those days are over, giftless. I'm not your agent, and I'm not your mommy; I'm a white piece of paper. You wanna dance with me?' and I really, really don't. I'll go peaceable-like.

Agent Dance Days Fooled
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I have a woman's body and a child's emotions.

Body Child Emotions Woman
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I am truly at my happiest not when I am writing an aria for an actor or making a grand political or social point. I am at my happiest when I've figured out a fun way for somebody to slip on a banana peel.

Actor Am Banana Figured
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Everything makes me nervous - except making films.
Everything Except Films Makes
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When a movie is being rolled out, the studio publicists and all our individual publicists get together and come up with bullet points and talking points - 'Make sure you stay away from this,' and 'Don't say that quite that way, because that quote can be taken out of context,' and that kind of thing.

Away Because Being Bullet
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I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim?

Been Claim How Make
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If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not dumb enough to turn it down.

Certainly Dollars Down Dumb
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Marriage is a great institution.

Great A Institution Marriage
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The rules of drama are very much separate from the properties of life. I think that's especially true of Shakespeare.

Drama I Think Life Much
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I've got plenty of quirks. I go to an office early in the morning. Early in the morning is really good writing time. I take anywhere between six to eight showers a day. I'm not exaggerating. I'm not a germaphobe: it's all about a fresh start.

About Anywhere Between Day
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Not all paintings are abstract; they're not all Jackson Pollock. There's value in a photograph of a man alone on a boat at sea, and there is value in painting of a man alone on a boat at sea. In the painting, the painting has more freedom to express an idea, more latitude in being able to elicit certain emotion.

Able Abstract Alone Being
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I am a very committed wife. And I should be committed too - for being married so many times.
Am Being Committed I Am
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Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

Always Bad Book Disgrace
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Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.

Armed Deadly Frightening Hit
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But there are things in Il Sogno that the methods of The Delivery Man could never achieve.

Achieve Could Delivery Man
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Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

Across Age Barbed Wire Borders
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We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule.

Balancing Budget Closer Come
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My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out.

Goal Going Hard Life
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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will.

Back Crocodile Eat Feeding
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Because we're actors we can pretend and fake it, but I'd rather the intimate investment was authentic.

Because Actor Pretend Fake
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It's always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you're seeing the most beautiful thing on God's Earth.

Always Wonderful Get Know
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No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.

Cabinet Even Matter Me
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Maybe I just never learned my harmony part, because what everybody says sounds odd to them sounds perfectly natural to me.

Because Everybody Harmony Just
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Mention Hubert Sumlin, as well, because Hubert's a great man, and again, you know, I don't play the guitar very good, but when I'm playing this kind of music, I always have him in my mind. I wish I could play like Hubert.

Again Always Because Could
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Obviously the people that I admired, like the Beatles, were really into rock'n'roll, but it was already a little past rock'n'roll when I started listening and making my own choices about music.

About Admired Beatles Choices
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I've often said there's nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.

Better Horse Inside Man
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There are many critics who have an idealised version of where my strengths lie.

Critics Lie Many Strengths
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