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I only have one attitude towards all my blessings...Gratitude!!! It doesn't matter what anyone says, thinks, does...it is always Gratitude.

Attitude Blessings Gratitude Towards
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I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.

Become Came Center Come
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But everything of value about me is in my books.

About Books Everything Me
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That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.

Am Doing Easy EasyThing
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All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.

Amount Details Documentation Fascinating
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When I was about 14, my family emigrated from England to Australia, and we decided to stop in Bali on the way through.

About Australia Bali Decided
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The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.

About Beginning Business Define
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I will say I am the sum of my books.
Am Books IAm Say
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Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it. I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.

Any Been Before Book
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Enemy He Interrupt Making
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We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father's side; I know only that some of them came from Nepal.

About Behind Came Changed
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As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.

Almost AlmostNothing Beyond Child
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All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

Acquire Else Everyone Everyone Else
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If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

Choose Giver God Had
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You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

Art At Of War Enemy Fight
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But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

Poor Dream Feet Softly
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I've signed a few sneakers in my day.
Day Few Signed Sneakers
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I'm married, I have three children, I never hit my wife.
Children Hit Married Never
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I love to see my family together. That's what life is about. It's about family.

About Family I Love Life
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I've always been a spiritual person who believed in a Higher Power. So, I've always had my 1-on-1 with God, even if I wasn't much of a religious person.

Always Been Believed Even
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I'm a breakfast type of guy. Don't get me wrong. I can cook, I'm kinda nice on the burner, but I enjoy making breakfast. I do it all... Scrambled eggs... French toast... Pancakes... Breakfast is my thing.

Breakfast Burner Cook Eggs
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I'm an adrenaline guy. I like to do stuff that gets my blood pumping, like roller coasters or jumping out of planes. I'm into all that crazy stuff.

Adrenaline Blood Crazy Gets
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I love music; it's my passion.
I Love Love Music Passion
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Music is my heart, but I see television and more movies in the next stage of my life.

Heart I See Life More
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I just like music that I can relate to, something to listen to in my car.
Car I Can Just Like
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I came into the rap game in 1992; my life was changing, but my group wasn't successful; I also saw the biggest rappers in the world die all of a sudden in the ensuing years, so it was a matter of conquering yourself before you can conquer the world.

Also Before Biggest Came
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My family was Jehovah's Witnesses, which is a really tough religion. It kind of deterred me from religion for a long time. They still practice, but I don't. But I always remained spiritual, and had a belief that there is a God. I'm trying to find my way, you know?

Always Belief Family Find
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I wanted to go into prison and come out a better person - mentally, physically. So, I read a lot of books, got my GED while I was in there, and worked out every day. Strong body, strong mind.

Better Better Person Body Books
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I prayed every night that God would keep my family safe. But as far as religion goes, I feel like everyone should have their own one-on-one with God.

As Far As Every Every Night Everyone
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Being incarcerated is truly very serious, and it has changed my life to such an extent that breaking the cycle has become my sole focus. Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.

Become Being Breaking Changed
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Right now I'm on my God flow, you know what I mean? I got Job 1:21 tattooed on my chest.

Chest Flow God Got
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I believe in God and a higher power. I'm still not the religious type per se because religion tore my family apart. I'm still a little scared and skeptical being one with any faith.

Any Apart Because Being
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The rules, religion to religion that man set forth, made me shy away from religion and have my own one on one with God and cut out the middleman.

Away Cut Forth God
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My role now is as an artist and as a mogul to inspire and give others opportunities.

Artist Give Inspire Now
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We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

Cattle Drive Follow Get
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It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

Always Been Belief Best
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My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh.

Became Behold Editor Feminine
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My life is short. I can't listen to banality.

Life LifeIsShort Listen MyLife
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I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment

About Charming Friends Had
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To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter.'

Converted Culture Destroy Does
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So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

Beloved Certain Friends Good
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I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.

Ancestry Beyond Blurred Cannot
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Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world.

Art Contain Elements Error
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I dislike Allegory - the conscious and intentional allegory - yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must use allegorical language.

Allegory Any Attempt Conscious
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There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy.

Invasion Marvelous Peace Peaceful
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I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.
I Love I Write Just Like
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Some stories, my property, have been stolen. Someone's appropriated them. It's an illicit act. It's unfair. Suppose you had a coat you liked, and somebody went into your closet and stole it. That's how I feel.

Act Been Closet Coat
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I don't necessarily intend to publish posthumously, but I do like to write for myself.

Intend Like Myself Necessarily
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I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and my work.

Aloof Doing Kind Known
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I start with a beat sheet, which is more of an abbreviated outline. It hits all the major plot points. From there, I move to note cards. But the most important part of my process is my inspiration board.

Beat Board Cards Hits
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