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I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some people call it imagination. To me, it's not imagination. It's just a way of watching.

Because Call Express Fiction
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I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else.

Because Else Father Japanese
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When I was a teenager, I thought how great it would be if only I could write novels in English. I had the feeling that I would be able to express my emotions so much more directly than if I wrote in Japanese.

Able Could Directly Emotions
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I've learned to take things a little more easily, to be a little more forgiving of myself.

Learned Easily Forgiving
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Many people, especially young people, would like to be more independent and on their own. But it is very difficult and they suffer from feelings of isolation. I think that is one reason why young readers support my work.

Difficult Feelings I Think Independent
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I don't want to express my opinion about actual politics, because if I do, I have to be responsible for my decision.

About Actual Because Decision
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I'm a writer. I don't support any war. That's my principle.
Any Principle Support War
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My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.

Books Least Narrative Point
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I myself have been on my own and utterly independent since I graduated. I haven't belonged to any company or any system. It isn't easy to live like this in Japan.

Any Been Belonged Company
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I am worrying about my country. I feel I have a responsibility as a novelist to do something.

About Am Country Feel
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I have no models in Japanese literature. I created my own style, my own way.

Created Japanese Literature Models
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My heroes don't have anything special. They have something to tell other people but they don't know how, so they talk to themselves.

Anything Heroes How Know
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I've been running a full marathon every year for more than 20 years, and my record is getting worse. Getting older, getting worse. It's natural.

Been Every Full Getting
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Many people tell me that they don 't know what to feel when they finish one of my books because the story was dark, or complicated, or strange. But while they were reading it, they were inside my world and they were happy. That's good.

Because Books Complicated Dark
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When I am writing, I do not distinguish between the natural and supernatural. Everything seems real. That is my world, you could say.

Am Between Could Distinguish
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I had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high.

Ambition Because Books Good
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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.
Common Common Goal Goal Job
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I was raised in a religious environment, and my wife is one of the more religious people that I have ever known.

Environment Ever I Was Raised Known
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My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961.

First Football Job Mary
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Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.

Ask God Never Success Power
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I don't think there's been anything in the game of football in my lifetime that has changed college football more than redshirting.

Anything Been Changed College
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When the bank asks me about my assets, I include my friendship with Regis Philbin.
About Ask Assets Bank
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All my life, I've been trying to make a hole-in-one. The closest I've come is a bogey.

All My Life Been Closest Come
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My wife doesn't even want to spend 2 hours with me.
Even Hours Me Spend
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I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.

Excel Excellent Extent Knowledge
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My dream girl... well, I love eyes. And lips. She has to have nice lips!

Dream Eyes Girl I Love
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I'm very clumsy, so there's been a lot of times I've tripped in front of girls I'm in love with or spilled food all over myself.

Been Clumsy Food Front
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I've had a very good career and I'm grateful that the public has had some level of acceptance and appreciation of my work.

Acceptance Appreciation Career Good
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If you look at my eyes when I'm dancing, you'll see that glazed look.

Dancing Eyes Look See
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My own parents were touchy-feely.
MyOwn Own Parents Were
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Having a place means that you know what a place means...what it means in a storied sense of myth, character and presence but also in an ecological sense...Integrating native consciousness with mythic consciousness

Place Means Stored Myth
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Man’s greatest joy is to slay his enemy, plunder his riches, ride his steeds, see the tears of his loved ones and embrace his women.

Greatest Joy Enemy Riches
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A man’s greatest moment in life is when his enemy lays vanquished, his village aflame, his herds driven before you and his weeping wives and daughters are clasped to your breast.

Man Enemy Vanquished Village
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If my body dies, let my body die, but do not let my country die

Body Dies Country
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With Heaven’s aid I have conquered for you a huge empire. But my life was too short to achieve the conquest of the world. That task is left for you.

Empire Heaven Aid Conquered
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Perhaps my children will live in stone houses and walled towns – Not I.

Children Live Houses Walled
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When my call is high, the obligations of me, too, are heavy, and I fear that my decision may be something they want.

Call Obligations Heavy Decision
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Sometimes I wondered whether I hadn't let my career get confined to one direction, but lately I've decided to accept the fact that I have this opportunity to be successful doing comedies.

Accept Career Comedies Confined
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The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.
Acting Again Cable Career
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Whatever talent I had, I'm sure it helped that my parents were in the business and that I grew up around actors, comedians and directors.

Actor Around Business Comedians
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My friends and I were the class clowns in high school, so one day we were showing off at our seats, and I fell off my chair! I had to get stitches, and I had a bloody lip. I was trying so hard to be a cool class clown!

Bloody Chair Class Class Clown
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Zoolander was more of my own sensibility.

More MyOwn Own Sensibility
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In Jewish tradition, dying in one’s sleep is called a kiss of God, and dying on the Sabbath is a gift that is merited by piety. For the pious person, my father once wrote, it is a privilege to die.

Tradition Jewish Dying Piety
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When I was working at the Sprint store, I got laid off. I was bummed out, but I stayed positive. I used the money I had earned while working there to make my first album. Without that job, maybe 'Corazon Sin Cara' would never had been made. It's a very inspirational story.

Album Been Earned First
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I remember when I was working at Sprint, I'd work on my birthday, New Year's Day, and even Christmas Eve. I'm just used to working on my birthday, so I'll be celebrating it afterward.

Afterwards Birthday Celebrating Christmas
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I grew up in The Bronx. I mean, I was born and raised in New York City. And I started singing in Spanish because I was always just connected to my Latin roots.

Always Because Born Bronx
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My parents are Dominican. I would always go to the Dominican Republic, and I fell in love with Bachata, which comes from the Dominican Republic.

Always Dominican Republic Fell Go
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I sang in English my whole life; I just happened to decide that I had a passion for Latin music, and I wanted to jump into Latin music first.

Decide English First Had
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I wouldn't say I'm changing myself to find a new audience. It's about growing, trying new things. There's a whole other world out there that doesn't know who Prince Royce is.

About Audience Changing Find
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Spanish is my second language. When I started, I was doing interviews in Spanish and had to catch up.

Catch Doing Had Interviews
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