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If you have the material it will form itself as a kind of connective tissue.

Form Itself Kind Material
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We must assimilate the thought that life between death and a new birth is so constituted that everything we do awakens an echo in the environment.
Assimilate Awakens Between Birth
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People don't realize you're blowing over changes, time changes, harmony, different keys. I mark a point in my solo where it's got to peak at point D I go to A, B, C D then I'm home.

Blowing Changes Different Go
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It is vital that we get these policies right as we take forward our plans to drive down the deficit and transform our economy.

Deficit Down Drive Economy
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I wish all critics, no matter their color, were more sophisticated when it comes to the moral questions a film like 'St. Anna' is trying to raise.

Anna Color Critics Film
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If you can work and if you're offered a job and you don't take it, you cannot continue to claim benefits. It will be extremely tough.

Benefits Claim Continue Extremely
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I'd like to do something involving jazz. But books are how I earn my living, and I'd like to stay with the horse I rode in on.

Books Earn Horse How
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It's the same old story. Nothing in this world happens unless white folks says it happens. And therein lies the problem of being a professional black storyteller - writer, musician, filmmaker.

Being Black Filmmaker Folks
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Newt Gingrich wrote a novel, and he's a short story. Bill Clinton wrote a biography, and he's a novel.

Bill Bill Clinton Biography Clinton
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The question of religion in black America is something filmmakers don't want to touch.

America Black Black America Filmmakers
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Don't get me started on Americans and war. One of the things I learnt over in Italy is how they mythologised the war so that it's all good old gung-ho guys from Omaha and ignored everyone else's role.

American Else Everyone Get
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I just don't see the point in sitting around hollering the blues over things you have no control over. It's all in God's hands.

Around Blues Control God
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If you don't have humor, you're not going to make it. You're going to be one of those people who walks around with your head about to explode.

About Around Explode Going
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People process pain differently. My family, we were pretty humorous about things that went on.
About Differently Family Humorous
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I'm not one of those who can listen to music and write. I need the door closed. Windows shut. Facing the wall. No birds tweeting, views of nature, and so forth.

Birds Closed Door Facing
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I don't like a bunch of writers sitting around, puffing smoke, they like this book, he wrote this - tell me a dirty joke, you know. It's just not my style, I've never been that kind of person.

Around Been Book Bunch
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I can't be a creative person if I'm a celebrity.

Celebrity Creative Creative Person Person
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The hard part about writing about a guy like John Brown is that he was so serious, and his cause was so serious, that most of what's been written about him is really serious and, in my opinion, a little bit boring.

About Been Bit Boring
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James Brown was the Monday-to-Friday guy. He was the hardest man in show business. He was like your dad and your uncle: He showed up, and he hit hard.

Brown Business Dad Guy
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I type most of my books for the first chapter or two - I use a manual typewriter for the first 50 pages or so - and then I move to the computer. It helps me keep the work lean so I don't end up spending 10 pages describing a leaf.

Books Chapter Computer Describing
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If you can whistle the melody, then the song will stick. But if you need a bunch of machines to make it sound good, you're probably not writing anything that's going to last a long time.

Anything Bunch Going Good
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Most of my work is done when everyone else is asleep.
Asleep Done Else Everyone
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I grew up in a house with a lot of kids, brothers and sisters. So I don't mind a lot of talking, yelling, playing. I can tune most of that out.

Brothers Brothers And Sisters Grew House
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I don't want to read a book that's depressing.
Book Depressing Read Want
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I don't live for my work. My life is my life. That's more important, and I think that helps my work.

Helps I Think Important Life
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Spike Lee listens a lot. He's one of the quietest creative people I've ever met.

Creative Creative People Ever He
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As far as making a living, if plumbing earned more, I'd probably do it. At least you can leave the job at home once the tools are put away. A writer works in his mind 24/7.

As Far As Away Earned Far
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We're learning a tremendous amount of propaganda from television and the Internet.

Amount Internet Learning Propaganda
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Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will.
Constant Ill Preparation Stimulus
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At no period of our political existence had we so much cause to felicitate ourselves at the prosperous and happy condition of our country.

Cause Condition Country Existence
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By these purchases the Indian title, with moderate reservations, has been extinguished to the whole of the land within the limits of the State of Ohio, and to a part of that in the Michigan Territory and of the State of Indiana.

Been Has Been Indian Indiana
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I have great satisfaction in stating that our relations with France, Russia, and other powers continue on the most friendly basis.

Basis Continue France Friendly
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If we look to the history of other nations, ancient or modern, we find no example of a growth so rapid, so gigantic, of a people so prosperous and happy.

Ancient Example Find Gigantic
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It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty.

Become Corrupt Degenerate Exercising
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National honor is the national property of the highest value.

Highest Honor National Property
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Our relations with the other powers of Europe have experienced no essential change since the last session.

Change Essential Europe Experienced
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The civil war which has so long prevailed between Spain and the Provinces in South America still continues, without any prospect of its speedy termination.

America Any Between Civil
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The great increase of our population throughout the Union will alone produce an important effect, and in no quarter will it be so sensibly felt as in those in contemplation.

Alone Contemplation Effect Felt
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The public lands are a public stock, which ought to be disposed of to the best advantage for the nation.

Advantage Best Lands Nation
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The right of self defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals, and whether the attack be made by Spain herself or by those who abuse her power, its obligation is not the less strong.

Abuse Alike Among Attack
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To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people.

Character Free Free People Impose
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It was by one Union that we achieved our independence and liberties, and by it alone can they be maintained.

Achieved Alone Independence Liberties
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The principles and passions of men are always the same and lead to the same result, varying only according to the circumstances in which they are placed.

According Always Circumstances Lead
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In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.
Begin Blade Creating Easier
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Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

Character Imagination Society Solitude
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Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

About Angry Anything Bring
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All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
Action Beautiful Less Lovely
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The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
Alone Change Dead Foolish
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Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
Another Bees Books Carry
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One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Experience Thorn Warning Whole
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