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I began my writing life as a poet, so poetry has always been fundamental. I evolved from poetry to journalism to stories to novels. But poetry was always there.

Always Been Began Evolved
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Artists and writers have to deal with the element that makes the real real and the dream real while you are dreaming it. That's where stories and poems get their power.

Artists Deal Dream Dreaming
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At the heart of 'The Famished Road' is a philosophical conundrum - for me, an essential one: what is reality? Everybody's reality is subjective; it's conditioned by upbringing, ideas, temperament, religion, what's happened to you.

Conditioned Essential Everybody Happened
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I'm most in my element on tour, with a gig that day, like today. I'm on the road where I am supposed to be. I will be where I'm supposed to be at nighttime, on stage, in front of people, doing my thing.

Nighttime People Thing Supposed
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Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.

Yardstick Quality Excellence Expect
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Management is about persuading people to do things they do not want to do, while leadership is about inspiring people to do things they never thought they could.

Convince Separates Entrepreneurs Perseverance
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I don't believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia, and abandonment. However much of that gets heaped upon you doesn't matter - it's only a matter of how much you can take and what it does to you.

What Does Matter Fate
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Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.

Impress People Effort Time
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How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think.

Administer Fortunate Governments How
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The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.

Any Appeal Broad Force
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What good fortune for governments that the people do not think.

Fortune Good Good Fortune Governments
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The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.

Employment Essential First Perpetually
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All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people.

Activity Cast Distress Emotions
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The moment you find yourself discussing people you are already failing; you are losing valuable time.

Moment Yourself Failing Time
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The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

Before Gained Ideas Lives
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Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.

Dark Light Miracle Moment
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One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.

Both Both Sides Bring Closer
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Be curious, not judgmental.
Curious Judgmental
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No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.

Act Advantage Better Character
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And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.

Employment Following Man May
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A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.
Great City Greatest Men
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
Produce Men Great
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All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

Anything Education Had Men
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Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.

Above Below Camp
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What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.

Afterwards Centuries
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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

Business Capacities
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The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.

Race Perish Power
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Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

Because Blame Common Determines
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We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

Any Clear Fully Grasp
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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Endure Fact Gain Happiness
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The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.

Argument Best Deserves Existence
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I've never wanted to look like models on the cover of magazines. I represent the majority of women and I'm very proud of that.

Never Wanted Like Models
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I don’t always place too much emphasis on religion because there were religions before the white men came to Africa.

Africa White Religion Always
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Music to me is mankind's greatest possible achievement because look at all the good it does.

Achievement Possible Good Look
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As a young person, I was on the road playing music, so I was getting new environments shoved in my face whether I wanted them or not.

Road Playing Music Shoved
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There's tons of junk food for your mind on the Internet. You can sit there for three or 10 or 20 hours a day getting in online arguments with other people who also choose to waste their time.

Arguments People Choose Waste
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The best compliment I get every year is that a band will write me and say, 'We were just on tour, and we had people coming to our show saying they had never heard us before they heard us on your show.

Heard Show Coming Compliment
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Living entirely off writing is a precarious existence and money is always short, bit with careful management and planning I found I could keep my head and those of my family, through God's grace, above water.

Water Grace God Family
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When you're going into an employment environment that looks pretty scary, it is easy to lose your moral compass, your decency, your sense of civility and your sense of community.

Decency Civility Community Compass
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I work toward the liberation of women, but I'm not feminist. I'm just a woman.

Feminist Liberation Toward Woman
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The truth is an anti-war statement in itself.

Truth Statement Itself Anti-war
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Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.

Interest Type Worried Exactly
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I'm not interested in censorship. I like the First Amendment very much.

Censorship Amendment Interested First
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I'd like to talk to Sean Hannity in a controlled environment and say, 'O.K., you can't interrupt and jump up and down like a professional wrestler.

Interrupt Professional Wrestler Jump
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Teach her that if you criticize X in women but do not criticize X in men, then you do not have a problem with X, you have a problem with women.

Teach Criticize Problem Have
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My own definition is a feminist is a man or a woman who says, yes, there’s a problem with gender as it is today and we must fix it, we must do better. All of us, women and men, must do better.

Own Better Gender Definition
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We teach girls shame. “Close your legs. Cover yourself.” We make them feel as though being born female they’re already guilty of something. And so, girls grow up to be women who cannot say they have desire. They grow up to be women who silence themselves. They grow up to be women who cannot say what they truly think. And they grow up — and this is the worst thing we do to girls — they grow up to be women who have turned pretense into an art form.

Teach Close Cover Feel
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Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.

AppearaBeyond Good Judgement Lies
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A world of happier men and happier women who are truer to themselves. And this is how to start: We must raise our daughters differently. We must also raise our sons differently.

World Start Raise Differently
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Because when there is true equality, resentment does not exist.
True Exist Equality Because
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