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India, in particular, is looking to develop nuclear power for domestic, commercial use, and we should work with them. This is a good deal for both countries.

Commercial Countries Deal Develop
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So many organizations have a mentoring arm, but they don't really do it. Their idea of mentoring a kid is giving them general advice. But what they need to do is read with children.

Advice Arm Children General
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As we embrace the American dream and the freedoms it represents, we must also ensure that those who wish to enjoy those freedoms become a part of our society and learn to speak our language.

American Become Dream Embrace
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With acting, I started very young, and I'd performed for a lot of children in boarding schools, late at night after the dormitory lights were out. I'd have a flashlight, and I'd be Count Dracula, or Shakespeare, or Yogi Bear, and leap from bunk to bunk. I loved the laughter; I liked the way it made people feel.

Acting After Bear Boarding
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Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.

Bored Happiness Happy Here
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I considered myself very lucky after 'Baghdad Cafe,' and I have 'The Shield.' In every genre, I've kicked butt at some point. I'm real happy.

Considered Every Genre Happy
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When I was a kid, a pickleball hit me in the back of the head, and I had memory problems. I was in a boarding school and the nuns gave me poems to remember to try and get the memory going again.

Memory Nuns Poems Problems
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I had to quit ballet because it felt like a part of me was dying inside.

Ballet Because Dying Felt
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A dark poem is meant to redeem the dark part.

Dark Meant Part Poem
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Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way, the hardest thing about writing poetry is waiting for that music, and sometimes you never know if it's going to come.

Language Music Necessity Never
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Sometimes you have a poem that you really want to write and it never happens.

Happens Never Poem Really
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When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.

Addictive Because Begin Happens
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I tended to write poems about both social and spiritual problems, and some problems one doesn't really want to solve, and so the problems themselves are solved. You certainly don't want to solve problems in poems that haven't been solved in the world.

Certainly Poems Problems Really
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I think poetry always lives its life, and people come to it and people go away from it, 'people' in the sense of larger numbers of people. It's as though you begin to think that poetry is a resource, and that at certain times people seem to need it or want it or can find sustenance in it, and at other times they can't.

Numbers People Poetry Resource
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My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a different thing.

Memorize Poems Poetry Quite
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A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts.

Always Clutch Excuse Hearth
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I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write; to think only of my own tastes and ideals, without a thought of those of editors or publishers.

Editors Formed Ideals Never
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The doctor who applied a stethoscope to my heart was not satisfied. I was told to get my papers with the clerk in the outer hall. I was medically rejected.

Applied Clerk Doctor Get
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The material came bubbling up inside like a geyser or an oil gusher. It streamed up of its own accord, down my arm and out of my fountain pen in a torrent of six thousand words a day.

Accord Arm Came Day
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People think of Latina women as being fiery and fierce, which is usually true. But I think the quality that so many Latinas possess is strength. I'm very proud to have Latin blood.

Being Blood Fierce Fiery
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The work is with me when I wake up in the morning; it is with me while I eat my breakfast in bed and run through the newspaper, while I shave and bathe and dress.

Bed Breakfast Dress Eat
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They managed to find time... to tell me that there was no chance of my being accepted for service and that really I should be surprised to still be alive.

Accepted Alive Being Chance
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When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue for a space at the head of a long list of books for which no one will ever ask.

Catalogue Die Ever Head
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As a woman, you spend so much time either cooking or getting ready to go somewhere. I like to have music when I'm doing either of these things.

Cooking Doing Either Getting
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Physical roles give me a chance to learn something new.

Chance Give Give Me Learn
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I know the responsibility that entails from telling a story. The one thing I despise the most is when I go to a movie and I see a whole bunch of lazy actors making me waste my time and money.

Actor Bunch Despise Entails
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What doesn't feel okay to me, what feels a little bit out of balance, is when you want to turn yourself into something else - when you want to be another person.

Another Balance Bit Else
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The biggest battle that I have is being a woman in the world. That takes center stage for me.

Battle Being Biggest Center
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When I act, a part of me goes into the character I am playing.

Act Am Character Goes
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I think as an American society, when we're paying too many taxes or dealing with war, we don't want to see sad things at the movies.

American American Society Dealing I Think
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I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.

Fact History Intrigued Man
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I never like to get political, but when you have the ability, through your media, to influence a large mass of people, I would want to be a part of the evolving cycle of progress vs. keeping things the way that they are.

Ability Cycle Evolving Get
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There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.

Creator Equity Governs Humanity
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If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

Conclude Derived Good Happy
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Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.

Beings Civilized Civilized Nations Earth
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I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.
Case Concerned Every Every Man
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How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.

Frame Hasty How Judgment
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Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.

Exists Liberty Proportion Restraint
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Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.

Arts Begins Civilization Cultivation
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The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.

Appearance Fully Governed Know
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Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Anger Argument Cool Keep
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We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people.

Agents People Power Same
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I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.

American Born Die I Was Born
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Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.

Away Every Life Man
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A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.

Bad Conviction Done Many
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Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.

Despotism Called May Government
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Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

Christians Citizens Good Good Citizens
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The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.

Answerable By The People For The People Government
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When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.

Arts Begins Civilization Farmers
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Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

Because Just Just Because Mean
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