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We stole a box of honey jars one time and went out in the woods and took care of the whole box. I don't think I touched honey again for 20 years. I never wanted to see honey again.

Again Box Care Honey
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When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out.

About Father Figure Five
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For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.

Introvert Environment Subject Startling
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Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.

Game Gangster Playing Profitable
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The climate in the '50s and '60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment business was atrocious. It was atrocious.

Atrocious Black Business Climate
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In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast.
Expanding Universe Outcast
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Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings, they did it by killing all those who opposed them. If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Rome Create Empire Meeting
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No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew her, will remember her.

Diana Ever Felt Forget
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I've met every freak in the business.
Business Every Freak Met
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The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.

English Incompetence Sincerity
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As a test of the closeness of your relationship with the world, sex could never be a patch on being murdered. (That's when someone really does risk his life for you.)
Closeness Relationship Sex Patch
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The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.

Atmosphere Attended Been Celebrating
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For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.

Also Christmas Come Coming
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The world is not the most pleasant place. Eventually, your parents leave you and nobody is going to go out of their way to protect you unconditionally. You need to learn to stand up for yourself and what you believe and sometimes, pardon my language, kick some ass.

Motivation Believe Philosophical
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Good memories are our second chance at happiness.

Memories Second Chance Humanity
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Family does not necessarily mean blood relatives but often a description of a community, organisation or nation.
Friendship Relationship Family
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It has been women who have breathed gentleness and care into the hard progress of humankind.

Women Progress Care
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I'm embarrassed every time I look a teacher in the eye, because we ask them to do so much for so little.

Ask Because Embarrassed Every
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If your neighbor has a completely different view on abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, all of those things, you still are both Americans. Neither one of you is necessarily more patriotic than the other. Neither loves their country any more than the other one does.

Abortion American Any Both
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I've been told, and I think I recognize it, that there's a cinematic quality to my writing, with a sense of image and place and scene - and, some would say, my tendency to finish my books the way Hollywood finishes its films.

Been Books Cinematic Films
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When I go to Afghanistan, I realize I've been spared, due to a random genetic lottery, by being born to people who had the means to get out. Every time I go to Afghanistan I am haunted by that.

Afghanistan Am Been Being
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Nothing happens in a vacuum in life: every action has a series of consequences, and sometimes it takes a long time to fully understand the consequences of our actions.

Action Actions Consequences Every
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Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.
Alive Fiction Kept Literary
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Afghanistan is a rural nation, where 85 percent of people live in the countryside. And out there it's very, very conservative, very tribal - almost medieval.

Afghanistan Almost Conservative Countryside
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I think the emancipation of women in Afghanistan has to come from inside, through Afghans themselves, gradually, over time.

Afghanistan Come Emancipation Gradually
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Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.

Life Courage Queens
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For me, heaven is likely to be a bit of a come-down.

Heaven Bits
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[To a woman whose cellphone rang during a formal meeting:] You'd better answer that. It could be someone important.

Important Answer Formal
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Football's a difficult business and aren't they prima donnas. But it's a wonderful game.

Soccer Football Game
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I was good at being a doctor; my patients liked me. At times people trust you with things they wouldn't tell their spouses. It was a real privilege.

Being Doctor Good Liked
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In many parts of the world, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. But I think we need women to solve the problems that men create.

Accusing Always Create Finds
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My wife is my in-home editor and reads everything I write.

Editor Everything I Write Reads
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The only two places where I can read for long stretches are in airplanes and in bed at nighttime.

Airplane Bed I Can Long
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What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass.
Hope Paving the way Favour
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Usually in films, when Muslims pray, it's either before or after they've blown something up.

After Before Blown Either
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A Western-style democracy in Afghanistan is a dream. I don't see that as a reality anytime soon. But I think some form of representative political process is not that far-fetched.

Afghanistan Anytime Democracy Dream
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People find meaning and redemption in the most unusual human connections.

Connections Find Human Meaning
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I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.

Group Guy Member Nailed
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The bewildering success of my books continues to surprise me.

Books Me Success Surprise
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Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?

Crime Fight Fighters Fire
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Economic chasm between people is something that is of interest to me. And something that I used to write about even as a child. It's something I've revisited a few times in my writings.

About Between Child Economic
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It's better to be healthy alone than sick with someone else.

Alone Better Else Healthy
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Writing for me is largely about rewriting.

About Largely Me Rewriting
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I have met so many people who say they've got a book in them, but they've never written a word. To be a writer - this may seem trite, I realize - you have to actually write.

Actually Boo Got Many
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Afghan women, as a group, I think their suffering has been equaled by very few other groups in recent world history.

Afghan Been Few Group
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Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Else Give Got Just
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Write the story you need to tell and want to read. It's impossible to know what others want, so don't waste time trying to guess.

Guess Impossible Know Need
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I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.

Among Desires Dreamer Dreams
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Take it from a guy: If you're in love with somebody, you will swim the stream, you will climb the mountain, you will slay the dragon. You're going to get to her somehow, some way.

Climb Dragon Get Going
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The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.

Expresses Never Obvious Seen
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