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Read deeply, not to believe, not to accept, not to contradict, but to learn to share in that one nature that writes and reads.
Nature Believe
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We read, frequently if not unknowingly, in search of a mind more original than our own.

Read Frequently Mind
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Aesthetic criticism returns us to the autonomy of imaginative literature and the sovereignty of the solitary soul, the reader not as a person in society but as the deep self, our ultimate inwardness.

Criticism Imagination Literature Soul
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Not a moment passes these days without fresh rushes of academic lemmings off the cliffs they proclaim the political responsibilities of the critic, but eventually all this moralizing will subside.

Life Critic
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I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist.

Believe Believed Critic Criticism
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Every day has its emotional difficulties. I miss my mother whether I'm singing her music or not.
Emotional Difficulties Mother Singing
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How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?

Artist Reflect Times
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I was not reluctant to become a singer. Singing has been an activity I've done my whole life, without thought.

Reluctant Singer Activity Life
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I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

Bad Because Found Me
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No poem, not even Shakespeare or Milton or Chaucer, is ever strong enough to totally exclude every crucial precursor text or poem.
Crucial Enough Even Ever
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My job is not done. I address my songs now to the third world. I am popular all over Asia and Africa and the Middle East, not to speak of South Africa, where I'm trying to go to see Nelson Mandela.

Job Song World Middle East
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I look forward to doing my own show, not someone else's. That's always been my dream.

Forward Show Dream
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The world does not get to be a better or a worse place; it just gets more senescent.

Better Does Get Gets
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What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.

Any Call Exclude Mostly
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Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

Act Clear Desire Except
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Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.

Belong Change Growth Nothing
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I do not believe in any legacy. The past is dead and gone.

Any Believe Dead Gone
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I have no desire to enter politics. Because I am not suited for that.

Am Because Desire Enter
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The biggest impediment to growth is in our minds and not in the world outside, and only constant in the world is change.

Biggest Change Constant Growth
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Making money is easy. It is. The difficult thing in life is not making it, it's keeping it.

Difficult Difficult Thing Easy Keeping
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.

Act Answerable Creative Creative Act
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I do not donate to any political party.
Any Donate Party Political
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I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.
Cannot Live Me Someone
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People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.

Another Gift Give People
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Politicon should be applauded for recognizing the increasing impact of technology, not only on American social and economic systems but on the very structure of our system of politics.

American Economic Impact Increasing
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I feel as much British as I do American. There's not much difference between our countries.

American Between British Countries
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I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: 'not sexy,' 'not funny,' 'too intense,' desperate.' All those labels they gave me, I took them because there wasn't a trace of my true self left.

Because Believed Desperate Everything
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An angry people cannot create anything that is not imbued with anger.

Anger Angry Anything Cannot
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On set is where I feel comfortable. The red carpet stuff, talking about the film, explaining your own life, it doesn't come naturally. It's all necessary stuff I suppose but it's not my strength.

About Carpet Come Comfortable
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I don't believe that you can be too short as a quarterback. It's not about height.

Short Believe About Height
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The husbands, who sometimes have another family who's grown, are going, Now I can spend time with my baby. Oh yeah, I bet your other family is really thrilled.

Another Baby Bet Family
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There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it.
Act Ashamed Closet Gonna
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I'm not sure why I still think of myself as 28 - maybe that's the point where you start growing up, and then you just feel the same for evermore.

Evermore Feel Growing Growing Up
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Each day, you get an ounce more confidence. When we're playing like we are, there's no reason not to.

Reason Playing Ounce Each
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I have written 20 books, and each one is like having a baby. Writing is not easy; some people want to write books but just can't put a story together. I can put together a story that interests both me and my readers.

Baby Books Both Each
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Authors change publishers because it's like being married for a long time and suddenly you want to go out and have a wild affair! No, not seriously, sometimes the deal is more interesting with a new publisher, and other times they have more enthusiasm for your books.

Affair Authors Because Being
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The use of violence in movies is a subject that's worth addressing. I'm not standing on a soapbox or wagging a finger, but I'm interested in those subjects for sure.

Addressing Finger Interested Movies
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If you want to achieve your dreams, you must follow them, and the best way to follow them is not to think about wanting to be very rich, but to think about doing something that you really want to do.

About Achieve Best Best Way
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Do not copy my style! The first rule of writing is write about what you know, not what you think you know. So, think about what you've done in your life and write about that.

About Copy Done First
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Women in their 40s have gone through quite a few different things, and so the roles are going to reflect that. People say, 'Oh, it's done by 40,' and now everyone knows it's not. I actually feel like the roles are a lot more interesting.

Actually Different Different Things Done
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Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history.

History Party Hear Farm
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Acting is not my favourite thing. I don't like wearing costumes and wigs.

Acting Costumes Favourite Like
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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

Clothed Cold Every Fed
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There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

Love Cure Faith Energy
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Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.

Action Ensure Real Today
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My mother, she didn't believe in praise. She'd never say anything was great. I think that's quite Northern, to not make people feel too good. I didn't mind if she was proud of me or not, it didn't bother me. I was never trying to please her.

Anything Believe Bother Feel
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I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.

About Album Also Away
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Life's not fair, is it? Some of us drink champagne in the fast lane, and some of us eat our sandwiches by the loose chippings on the A597.

Champagne Drink Eat Fair
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If you are not being bullied all I would say - cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well - is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there's someone in your class that maybe doesn't have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person.

About Being Bigger Bullied
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A lot of panel programmes rely on men topping each other, or sparring with each other, which is not generally a very female thing.

Each Female Generally Lot
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