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There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.

Case Cases Considered Few
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A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.

About Against Argument Charity
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I had plenty of pimples as a kid. One day I fell asleep in the library. When I woke up, a blind man was reading my face.

Asleep Blind Blind Man Day
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The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

Begins Best Boundaries Death
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Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

Away Children Extinction Fought
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All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

Reality Times Best Escape
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

Affords Another Difficulties Forming
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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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A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.

Brings Down Family Idea
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I only know two pieces; one is 'Clair de Lune' and the other one isn't.

Know Only Other Pieces
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If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.

Away Caused Just Laughter
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Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight.

Bone Close Eight Episode
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I am all for everyone having a voice; I just don't think everyone has earned the microphone. And that's what the Internet has done.

Am Done Earned Everyone
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So much to do, so little done, such things to be.

Done Little Much Such Things
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I don't have a great instrument. I don't have the kind of ungodly control over my voice and body that great actors have. And I've worked with enough great actors to know that I'm not one.

Actor Body Control Enough
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I've loved every minute I've spent in television. And I've had much more failure, as traditionally measured, than success in television. I've done four shows, and only one of them was the 'West Wing.'

Done Every Failure Four
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If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not dumb enough to turn it down.

Certainly Dollars Down Dumb
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The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.

Civil Civil Service Examination Federal
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Not all paintings are abstract; they're not all Jackson Pollock. There's value in a photograph of a man alone on a boat at sea, and there is value in painting of a man alone on a boat at sea. In the painting, the painting has more freedom to express an idea, more latitude in being able to elicit certain emotion.

Able Abstract Alone Being
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Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

Appetite Baby Big Canal
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When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that's not going to be me. So when David Fincher comes along and wants to direct 'The Social Network,' when Bennett Miller comes along and wants to direct 'Moneyball,' or when Danny Boyle wants to direct 'Jobs'? Hallelujah. I want them directing it.

Along Best Danny David
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The first thing I wrote was a one-act play that got accepted at a one-act play festival, and I was in it along with Nathan Lane and a couple of other very good actors.

Accepted Actor Along Couple
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I'll get cast occasionally as sort of the jerk version of myself, and I have fun doing that. But it's really better for everyone if I stay behind the camera.

Behind Better Camera Cast
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We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.
Everyone Help Someone We
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When people say, 'She's got everything', I've got one answer - I haven't had tomorrow.

Answer Everything Got Had
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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will.

Back Crocodile Eat Feeding
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Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.
About Because Came Four
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On a good night, I get underwear, bras, and hotel-room keys thrown onstage... You start to think that you're Tom Jones.

Good Night Underwear Bras
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Very similar experience happened last year when we released this album, North. It was on Deutsche Grammophon, it was very, very honest. It was the most honest record I've ever written.

Album Ever Experience Happened
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One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.

Against Everything People Time
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What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.

About Cause Dangerous Evil
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Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

Adversity Hard Hundred Man
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No one needs to tell me about the importance of the free press in a democratic society or about the essential role a newspaper can play in its community.

About Community Democratic Democratic Society
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When companies get together secretly to fix prices and attempt to eliminate competition, honest businessmen suffer. I think this is wrong.

Attempt Businessmen Companies Competition
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It certainly should not surprise us that a young person without any real stake in a legitimate occupation or career may get into trouble more easily. Such persons readily accept the idea that they have been unjustly deprived of money, status, and opportunity.

Accept Any Been Career
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That's why I hate to get started in these jam sessions. I'm always the last one to leave.

Always Get Hate Jam
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Those people in New York are not gonna change me none.

Change Gonna Me New
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Hermione uses all these big long tongue twister words. I don't know what she's going on about half the time!

About Big Going Half
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Just because I managed to do a little something, I don't want anyone back home to think I got the big head.

Anyone Back Because Big
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If anyone else played Hermione, it would actually kill me.

Actually Anyone Anyone Else Else
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Hermione is so close to who I am as a person that I've never really had to research a role. I'm literally rediscovering what it means to be an actress.

Actress Am Close Had
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I have felt for the last 10 years I have had this battle; I've been fighting so hard to have an education. It's been this uphill struggle. I was Warner Bros' pain in the butt. I was their scheduling conflict. I was the one who made life difficult.

Battle Been Bros Butt
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I would love to not date someone in the same industry as me. Otherwise it becomes what it means to everyone else.

Becomes Date Else Everyone
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I used to look back at pictures and cringe but actually I'm quite proud that I've had fun with fashion and don't always look perfect. The only regret I have is when I look at something I wore when I was very young and it obviously looks like it belonged to someone else.

Actually Always Back Belonged
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To be honest, I've always had far too much freedom. I had a job when I was 10. I started living on my own when I was 17 or 18. I've earned my own money; I've traveled the world. What would I rebel against?

Against Always Earned Far
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Communism everywhere has paid the price of rigidity and dogmatism. Freedom has the strength of compassion and flexibility. It has, above all, the strength of intellectual honesty.

Above Communism Compassion Everywhere
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But it's a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience, so as much as someone can tell you things, you have to go out there and make your own mistakes in order to learn.

Experience Go Journey Learn
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I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.

Am Diploma I Am Learning
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Orson Welles was one of these people who was defying everything the doctors told him he wasn't supposed to be doing. He was really enjoying himself when he was eating what he wanted to eat.

Defying Doctors Doing Eat
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A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.

Sleep Lse Someone Talk
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