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You know, we've got to this place, where you go to a movie for one particular surgical fix. So, it's like, I want the pulse-pounding action, or the insane falling-off-my-seat comedy, or the devastating, heart-breaking drama.

Action Comedy Devastating Drama
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They say you don’t know what you have until it’s gone. Well, the truth is, you knew exactly what you had, you just thought you’d never lose it.

Know Truth Gone Exactly
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I have lived in the only decades I could have lived in, and hope to live through at least a few more.

Could Decades Few Hope
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I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations.

Imaginations Manipulative People Spark
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Characterize people by their actions, and you would never be fooled by their words.

Characterize people Actions Never Fooled
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In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.
Been Continue Days Heroic
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I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.

Am Before Began Civilization
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I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.

Fiction Horror Human Issue
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I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.

Consciousness Die Give Great
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It's hard to write haiku. I write long, silly Indian poems.
Hard I Write Indian Long
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The history of science is rich in example of the fruitfulness of bringing two sets of techniques, two sets of ideas, developed in separate contexts for the pursuit of new truth, into touch with one another.

Another Bringing Developed Example
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Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.

Depending Going Hour Hours
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If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.

Crime Fault Indifference Moderation
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It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.

Beatnik Bohemian Certain Elements
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
Accomplished Fads Great Great Things
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Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.

Amazement Recollection Write Yourself
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I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.

Anybody Confusion Except Had
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Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

Among Most Never Possessions
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I saw what the Depression was doing to my students. Often they could get no jobs, or jobs which were wholly inadequate. And through them, I began to understand how deeply political and economic events could affect men's lives. I began to feel the need to participate more fully in the life of the community.

Affect Began Community Could
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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

Control Failure Fault Lack
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One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.

Itself Mind Only Own
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A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.

Did Direction Every Every Time
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Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem of governments, not of scientists.

Changed Changes Conditions Governments
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Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.

Again Battered Go Had
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I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
Admiration Contempt IWonder Motivation
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Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow.

Bite Bitten Dogs Get
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I had had a continuing smoldering fury about the treatment of Jews in Germany.

About Continuing Fury Germany
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I don't really go out at all.

Go All Out Really
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There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.

Behave Benefit Community Every
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Of course, I also hear from critics who detest what I do, and while sometimes I feel rather proud of having made various the loathsome people or groups angry, at other times I wonder why I put up with such grief.

Also Angry Course Critics
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The Catholic Church is a weird church. Much mysticism is sown broadspread from its ritual mysteries till it extends into the very lives of its constituents and parishoners.

Catholic Catholic Church Church Constituents
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It's about what happens on stage, whether we can deliver it in a hungry way that is who we are in our hearts.

About Deliver Happens Hearts
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I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.

About Beauty Did Famous
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If your album sells, that's cool, more people find out about you, more people get turned on to what we're really about-which is a live rock and roll band.

About Album Band Cool
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Notoriety and public confession in the literary form is a frazzler of the heart you were born with, believe me.

Believe Born Confession Form
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If you were on the phone with me and Tommy right now, we would probably forget you were there, we'd just be cracking jokes. It's like Beavis and Butthead.

Cracking Forget Jokes Just
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The only people for me are the mad ones: the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who... burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow Roman candles.

Burn Candles Everything Fabulous
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Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.

About Alright Fiction Happened
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I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody.' I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A.

About Adventures Conversation Dictate
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To try to become happy is to try to build a machine with no other specifications than it shall run noiselessly.

Become Build Happy Machine
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I don't want to jump through hoops for people.
Hoops Jump People Through
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Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.

Emotional Promiscuity Sentiment Sentimentality
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There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors.

Any Ask Assertion Barriers
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There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.

Cruel Else Grow Just
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How lucky can one guy get? I was a runaway, and then I was in one of the biggest bands in the world. I've sold out every arena. I've sold millions and millions of records.

Arena Bands Biggest Ever
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The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.

Function Higher HigherLevel Level
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If you actually dissect the lyrics in 'Motley Crue', you'll notice that there's a lot going on beneath the surface.
Actually Beneath Dissect Going
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Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.
Even Facts Forever Lost
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I knew I was getting into one of the most illegal things in the world. It was the right thing to do.

Getting Illegal Knew Most
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You want to love unconditionally everything you do, or don't do it.

Everything Love Want You
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