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It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

Creates Desire Intense Intense Desire
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Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.
Creature Himself Impossible Man
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I like books that aren't just lovely but that have memories in themselves. Just like playing a song, picking up a book again that has memories can take you back to another place or another time.

Again Another Another Time Back
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In terms of men I fancy, I think the actor James Franco is gorgeous. But I find it odd to be described as a sex symbol myself.

Actor Fancy Find Gorgeous
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I guess what really forms you as a person is what you do within your family to receive love or attention. In my family, what you had to do to receive attention was to have good conversation at the dinner table or for me to do well at school, and those were really my focuses because that was what was valued the most.

Attention Because Conversation Dinner
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With 'Harry Potter,' I've been all over the world. I probably wouldn't have gone to New York so young if it weren't for the films.

Been Films Gone Harry
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In the course of evolution, it constantly happens that, independently of each other, two different forms of life take similar, parallel paths in adapting themselves to the same external circumstances.

Adapting Circumstances Constantly Course
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Whenever we find, in two forms of life that are unrelated to each other, a similarity of form or of behaviour patterns which relates to more than a few minor details, we assume it to be caused by parallel adaptation to the same life-preserving function.

Adaptation Assume Behaviour Caused
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You never really know as an actor; it's completely out of your control, in terms of editing, and music, and film stock, shot selection, and what takes they use.

Actor Control Editing Film
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I'm extremely profane, unconsciously so, when I see something great for the first time; I don't know why, but beauty and profanity are related to me in the same way. It may be that I want to think of art in the vernacular, but I have no control over what comes out of my mouth when my eyes take in great beauty...it might just be the reason I avoid going to museums with elderly ladies.

Art Eye Thinking
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The slapdash way producers used to assemble a show seems a little unbelievable when we talk about them now.

About Assemble Little Now
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From plants that wake when others sleep, from timid jasmine buds that keep their odour to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.

About All Day Away Breeze
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The gifts of lovers to one another are, in respect to love, nothing but forms; yet, they testify to invisible love.

Another Forms Gifts Invisible
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The Democrats and Republicans are the same guy admiring themselves in the mirror.

Democrats Republic Same Guy
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I preferred delivering my performance in person. I liked to be in control. You couldn't be in films.

Control Delivering Films Liked
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What shall I say, O Muslims, I know not myself, I am neither a Christian, nor a Jew, nor a Zoroastrian, nor a Muslim.

Am Christian I Am Jew
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Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hid and show what's hidden.

Body Hid Hidden Mediums
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The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.

Boredom Least Many Presidency
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I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have.

Come Emotional Emotional Experiences Experiences
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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Courage Dreams Else Lot
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I was terrible at straight items. When I wrote obituaries, my mother said the only thing I ever got them to do was die in alphabetical order.

Alphabet Die Ever Got
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You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.

About Anger Angry Get
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We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.

Always America Another Because
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Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.

Dreamers Dreams Lonely Only
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A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others.

Cannot Feels He Help
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We will be a compassionate government, for out of compassion arises the truest forms of wealth and progress a society can attain.

Attain Society Wealth Arises
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No longer shall illegal flows of massive sums leave these shores to finance other economies. While our people languish in poverty, we effectively give financial aid to nations that is not justified. I am sick of this. It must stop. The money saved will finance jobs, health care and the provision of social safety net for the needy, weak and vulnerable of our land.

Land Weak Safety Sick
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I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.
Cannot Control Himself Man
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The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Beauty Believe Belongs Dreams
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Every new government inherits problems. Ours was no different. But what Nigerians want are solutions, quick solutions not a recitation of problems inherited.

Quick Inherits New Solutions
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The Federal Executive under my watch will not seek to encroach on the duties and functions of the Legislative and Judicial arms of government.

Watch Duties Arms Under
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It is only when the three arms act constitutionally that government will be enabled to serve the country optimally and avoid the confusion all too often bedeviled governance today.

Today Often Avoid Country
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We shall rebuild and reform the public service to become more effective and more serviceable. We shall charge them to apply themselves with integrity to stabilize the system.

System Apply Charge Reform
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I got as much information as I could, so I wouldn't look stupid, but this is a post 9/11 world and there's only so much you can do with the FBI in terms of research.

Got Information Look Much
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Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another.

Complain Genuinely Poetry First
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We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will.
Capacity Deal Find Means
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I think one thing you could probably say for all my albums is that they're all pretty eclectic pop.

Think One Thing You
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When economic conditions are difficult, people tend to be less generous and protect themselves; the question of solidarity doesn't mean much to them at that time.

Conditions Difficult Economic Generous
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Learn from your dreams what you lack.
Dreams Lack Learn You
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Mother believed that I should have an enormous amount of sleep, and so I was never really tired when I went to bed. This was the best time of day, when I could lie in the vague twilight, drifting off to sleep, making up dreams inside my head the way they should go.

Amount Bed Believed Best
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That is how it stiffens, my vision of that seaside childhood. My father died; we moved inland. Whereon those nine first years of my life sealed themselves off like a ship in a bottle - beautiful, inaccessible, obsolete: a fine, white, flying myth.

Beautiful Bottle Childhood Died
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Today is the first of August. It is hot, steamy and wet. It is raining. I am tempted to write a poem. But I remember what it said on one rejection slip: 'After a heavy rainfall, poems titled 'Rain' pour in from across the nation.'

Across After Am August
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God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him! The charms of the heaven in the bush are superseded, I fear, by the heaven in the hand, occasionally.

Bush Charms Else Fear
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Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking to me, telling me their tales.

Alive Amazing Amazing Experience Characters
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Often we mistake stability, in terms of security and economic activity, to mean a country is doing well. We forget the third and important pillar: rule of law and respect for human rights.

Activity Country Doing Economic
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It seems this is an age of clever critics who keep bewailing the fact that there are no works worthy of criticism.
Age Clever Criticism Critics
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My own advice to people who would be in office for two or three terms is that they must accept democratic rotation: ideally, not put themselves up for re-election and allow the system to work.

Accept Advice Allow Democratic
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I am a writer... I am a genius of a writer; I have it in me. I am writing the best poems of my life; they will make my name.

Am Best Genius I Am
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When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.

About Beyond Bury Child
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As long as inequality and other social problems plague us, populists will try to exploit them.

Exploit Inequality Long Other
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