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I loved to read, but I always thought that the dream was too far away. The person who had written the book was a god, it wasn't a person.

Always Away Book Dream
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Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what we wanted to read. It was a feeling of having a book be mine entirely.

Asking Book Choose Entirely
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Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way to poetry. It's about using words in very precise ways and using gesture.

About Ever Gesture Good
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I was appointed Poet Laureate. It came totally out of the blue because most Poet Laureates had been considerably older than I. It was not something that I even had begun to dream about!

About Appointed Because Been
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I thought, after the Pulitzer, at least nothing will surprise me quite that much in my life. And another one happened. It was quite amazing.
After Amazing Another Happened
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Two wrongs do not make a right; but three rights make a left.

Two wrong Right Make Left
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It's a great day in America when white people, black people and Latinos can all come together and pick on another minority.
Great day White people Black Latinos
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I didn't come from a background where I saw a lot of loving couples. All my aunts and uncles were either split up or fighting all the time. The only healthy relationships I saw were on TV.

Come from Background Loving couples
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I didn't want to be nobody, and that was the only way I could be somebody was to do stand-up.

Want Nobody Only way Somebody
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I had a very difficult childhood. I was surrounded by people who had both parents, which made me feel different. Having a bit of a rougher existence early on, it made me appreciate the work ethic that my grandparents instilled in me.

Difficult childhood Surrounded Parent
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I believe that there are certain things that could be taken care of that you don't need a strong political background in.

I believe Things Care Strong political
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I've spent days in cinemas answering questions from the audience, in interviews, travelling abroad, and all they do is thank me nicely.

Spent days Answering question Thank me
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Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early.

Children Come Curriculum Early
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It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate.
About Being Combination Exciting
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The story being told in 'Star Wars' is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again. Power corrupts, and when you're in charge, you start doing things that you think are right, but they're actually not.

Story Star wars Classic one Retold
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There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry.

Advise Congress Distinct Duties
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Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that's one of the hardest things to do because you don't always know exactly where you're going, and you shouldn't.

Issue Achievement Set Realistic goals
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You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.
Put One foot Keep going Right ahead
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Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine.

Arts Been Every Go
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If the boy and girl walk off into the sunset hand-in-hand in the last scene, it adds 10 million to the box office.

Boy Girl Walk off Sunset
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'Star Wars' is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It's what they want.

Fun Exciting Inspirational People respond
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You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible.

Before Evidence Existed Front
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Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.

Whatever Happened Innovation Immaculate reality
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To be renewed is everything. What more could one ask for than to have one's youth back again?

Renewed Everything One ask Youth back
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It's hard work making movies. It's like being a doctor: you work long hours, very hard hours, and it's emotional, tense work. If you don't really love it, then it ain't worth it.

Hard work Movies Long hours Emotional
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Age considers; youth ventures.

Age Considers Ventures Youth
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Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.

Difficulty Disturb Every Ghost
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I am a giant proponent of giant screens. But I accept the fact that most of my movies are going to be seen on phones.

Giant proponent Movies Seen Phones
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Football games are on TV, and it doesn't affect stadium attendance at all. It's the same with movies. People who really love movies and like to go out on a Saturday night will go to the movie theater.

Football games Stadium attendance Movie
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All art is dependent on technology because it's a human endeavour, so even when you're using charcoal on a wall or designed the proscenium arch, that's technology.

All art Dependent Technology Human endeavour
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There should be a point to movies. Sure, you're giving people a diversion from the cold world for a bit, but at the same time, you pass on some facts and rules and maybe a little bit of wisdom.

Movies People Diversion World
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There's no difference between movies and television. None at all. Except in a lot of cases, television's much better than movies.

Difference Movie Television Cases
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Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Bondage Emancipation Freedom Soil
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I live a reasonably simple life, off the beaten track.

Live Simple life Beaten track
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I've always been a follower of silent movies. I see film as a visual medium with a musical accompaniment, and dialogue is a raft that goes on with it.

Follower Silent movies Visual medium
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Film is a very tight little box. If you don't fit in that box, you're gone. Television, there's more room to move around.

Film Tight Little box Gone
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One thing about 'Star Wars' that I'm really proud of is that it expands the imagination. That's why I like the 'Star Wars' toys.

One thing Proud Expands Imagination
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Everyone seems to think that digital technology devoid the medium of content, but that is not true at all. If anything, it broadens the content.

Everyone seems Digital technology Medium Content
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Whenever you do something, people try to re-do it and do a better version, especially if they're in another country.

Whenever You do Something People
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I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn't care what kind of movies I made.

Never interested Powerful Famous Film school
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Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism.

Taking something Man Worse Plagiarism
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The wrong way always seems the more reasonable.
Wrong way Seems Reasonable
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Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out to do.

Everybody Sets out Do something Does
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An idea is so impersonal; it is yours today and the whole world's tomorrow.

An idea Impersonal Today Tomorrow
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To what better purpose can a man's energy be devoted, and his talents, than the resuscitation of his country's language?

Better purpose Devoted Talents Resuscitation
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Men never get free from morality, only women.
Man never Free Morality
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The right I claim is that of every human being to speak what he believes to be the truth to whomever he may meet on his way.

Right Claim Human being Speak
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If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer.

Find Love Read Reading
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Every race gets the religion it deserves, and only as policemen, pugilists, and priests have they succeeded, here and there a successful lawyer, but nothing more serious.

Every race Religion Policemen Priests
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The truth is that I am in love with Dublin. I think it is the most beautiful town that I have ever seen, mountains at the back and the sea in front, and long roads winding through decaying suburbs and beautiful woods.

The truth Love Beautiful Mountains
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