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I think, all too often, this society has too monolithic a definition of what a black American is.

American Black Definition I Think
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Once in awhile, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often.

About Awhile Event Happen
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People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.

About Beauty Beholder Dared
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My whole life is about winning. I don't lose often. I almost never lose.

Almost Life Lose Never
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Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.

Bad Book Books Every
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God lets you be successful because he trusts you that you will do the right thing with it. Now, does he get disappointed often? All the time, because people get there and they forget how they got it.

Because Disappointed Do The Right Thing Does
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We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible.

Blaming Destroying Environment Fond
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

Come Deadliest Deepest Desires
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The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.
Does Gained Hearing Intellect
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Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.
Crazy Dreams Most Often
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You don't that often see writers being sought out when there are matters of great moment to discuss. And I think that's a loss.

Being Discuss Great Loss
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Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.

Basically Because Character Consistent
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I love soft-cotton white T-shirts.

Love Soft Cotton White
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To make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That's what got me into software engineering when I was a kid. I wanted to make money so I could buy a better computer to play better video games - nothing like saving the world.

Admission Better Buy Computer
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I think I stand up more often than I should on defense. I've got to be solid and continue to get better.

Better Continue Defense Get
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Trying to read our DNA is like trying to understand software code - with only 90% of the code riddled with errors. It's very difficult in that case to understand and predict what that software code is going to do.

Case Code Difficult DNA
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He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.

Achieved He Laughed Loved
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I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.

Always Becomes Born Important
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We come into relationships often very much identified with our needs. I need this, I need security, I need refuge, I need friendship. And all of relationships are symbiotic in that sense. We come together because we fulfill each others' needs at some level or other.

Because Come Each Friendship
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Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

Alone Cheer Each Help
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The real secret of an unsatisfied life lies too often in an unsurrendered will.

Life Unsatisfied Unsurrendered
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The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.

Impossible Improbable Integrity Kind
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Growing up, my mother and grandparents often talked about our family's Native American heritage. As a kid, I never thought to ask them for documentation - what kid would?

About American Ask Documentation
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You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.

Dream His Measure Often
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Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.

Abuse Arbitrary Clinical Distinctions
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An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.

Element Soft Great Virtues
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It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.

Ruled Often Truer Governed
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Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party.

Apartment Canada Great Like
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Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

Any Attain Commonly Easier
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My parents took me to see plays, starting from when I was very little. Oftentimes, I was too young to understand. I don't know what my parents were thinking - 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' when I was eight years old, that kind of thing. So lots of times, I didn't understand what was going on, but I just loved the sound of dialogue.

Afraid Dialogue Eight Going
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I've often said there's nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.

Better Horse Inside Man
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I don't really buy designer stuff. I have a few nice things, but I don't really have the occasion to wear couture too often.

Buy Couture Designer Few
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In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them.

Believe Standard Double Often
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It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

Attracts Evil Often Power
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Animals often strike us as passionate machines.
Animals Machines Often Passionate
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We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.

Always Arrive Ends Fear
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Ethologists are often accused of drawing false analogies between animal and human behaviour. However, no such thing as a false analogy exists: an analogy can be more or less detailed and, hence, more or less informative.

Accused Analogy Animal Behaviour
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I always have several books on the go at any one moment, so it's no good you asking 'What's on the bedside table at the moment, Emma?' because often I can't even see the table!

Always Any Asking Because
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There's something fascinating about seeing something you don't like at first but directly know you will love—in time. People are that way, all through life. You come against a personality, and it questions yours. You shy away but know there are gratifying secrets there, and the half-open door is often more exciting than the wide.

Doors People Personality
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We exponents of horror do much better than those Method actors. We make the unbelievable believable. More often than not, they make the believable unbelievable.

Writing Actors Horror
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We may all be a peculiar lot...often broke, often dissatisfied because we're not doing more and better work...but we know how to have a ball that makes the rest of the world seem square.

Squares Peculiar Balls World
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One thing is certain: the arts keep you alive. They stimulate, encourage, challenge, and, most of all, guarantee a future free from boredom. They allow growth and even demand it in that time of life we call maturity but too often enter it with a childish faith that what we learned in youth is sustenance enough for the years when most men are mentally famished but won't admit it—or when they are apt to curb their hunger with the sops of complacency, security, and the assurance of death.

Art Maturity Men
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I’m always intrigued by my nonsensical concern with picking out a bunch of things that look exactly alike the ones that somehow I feel are the best and belong to me. It’s that same crazy urge or superstition, or whatever it is, that makes me open a Bible in a hotel room, hoping for some great happenstance spiritual word of advice. More often than not, I hit a long passage of begats and begots, which contain little inspiration other than the fact that procreation is the highest aim of life.

Spiritual Crazy Inspiration
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Sometimes you read a passage by a great writer, and you know what he says and how he says it will always be, for you, the only possible way it could be. Less often a painter will describe an event in a way that fits into your interpretation of that event so perfectly that it becomes the event itself.

Events Way Sometimes
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I work as often as I want and yet I'm free as a bird.

Bird Free Often Want
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We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.
Apparent Blessing Failed Failure
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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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On climate change, we often don't fully appreciate that it is a problem. We think it is a problem waiting to happen.

Appreciate Change Climate Fully
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Since my woman's world is perceived greatly through the emotions and the senses, I treat it that way in my writing - and am often overweighted with heavy descriptive passages and a kaleidoscope of similes.

Am Descriptive Emotions Greatly
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I don't often know exactly what's coming next, and that makes it more fun. And you know, for me, this entire genre is all about that; it's all about having fun and getting away from the mundane world for just a little while.

About Away Coming Entire
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