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A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.

Am Animal Animals Anymore
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.

Appreciation General Instead Love
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I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.

Bar Felt Life Music
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Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.
Die Going Later Retire
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It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.
Lose Nothing Poor Rich
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My husband does not like me to give interviews because I say too much. No talk, no trouble.

Because Does Give Husband
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Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars.

Dollars Down Dress First
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They call me corrupt, frivolous. I am not at all privileged. Maybe the only privileged thing is my face. And corrupt? God! I would not look like this if I am corrupt. Some ugliness would settle down on my system.

Am Call Corrupt Down
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Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.

Beautiful Beauty Look Poor
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They went into my closets looking for skeletons, but thank God, all they found were shoes, beautiful shoes.

Beautiful Closets Found God
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I beg Osama to stop warring. He is a Muslim, and Islam means peace. Nobody wins in a war... I wish I were tapped in the problem about Iraq. I knew Saddam enough that I could have talked him into surrendering. But it's too late.

About Beg Could Enough
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I will come up with a project that will wipe out poverty in the Philippines in two years. I want to remove the people from economic crisis by using the Marcos wealth. Long after I'm gone, people will remember me for building them homes and roads and hospitals and giving them food.

After Building Come Crisis
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It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.

Beauty Body Books Bringing
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It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.
Country Important More People
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In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, 'why don't I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,' and they abandon their values.

Abandon All Day Appear Ask
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When you look at the sun during your walking meditation, the mindfulness of the body helps you to see that the sun is in you; without the sun there is no life at all and suddenly you get in touch with the sun in a different way.

Body Different Different Way Get
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I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.

Enjoyed Climbing People Friends
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People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don't suffer anymore.

Anymore Because Caught Free
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This book, when I am dead, will be A little faint perfume of me. People who knew me well will say, She really used to think that way.

Book Dead Perfume People
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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
Being End Good In The End
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The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.

Change Falling Falling In Love Go
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A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.

Person Publishes Book Appears
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Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.
Give Good Advice Promise
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I do not think there is a woman in whom the roots of passion shoot deeper than in me.
Think Woman Roots Passion
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Childhood Is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies.

Childhood Kingdom Dies
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A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public eye with his pants down.

Publishes book Appears Public Eye
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Oh, friend, forget not, when you fain would note In me a beauty that was never mine, How first you knew me in a book I wrote, How first you loved me for a written line....

Friend Forget Fain Beauty
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We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.

Better Doomed Future How
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In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Almost Always Becomes Demands
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I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology.

About Am Hate I Am
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Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.

Afford Basically Books Britain
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Every kind of book I've written has been written in a different way. There has not been any set time for writing, any set way, I haven't re-invented the process every time but I almost have.

Almost Any Been Book
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Pakistan needs to have decentralisation and a good local government system.

Good Government Local Local Government
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Cross-cultural marriage is difficult, especially when one person has to live in another country. But I thought there was a very good chance of it working because people grow together if they have a common passion.

Another Because Chance Common
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Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.

Art Conscience Dark Deep
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I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn't getting the same kind of excitement from them that I was from going out clubbing. I wanted to get the same kind of feel.

Always Books Clubbing Excitement
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I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just write the book that I would want to read. And I put on the blinders, and I really - it is, for me, that simple.

Simple Blinders Read Book
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My sincere hope is that 'The Da Vinci Code,' in addition to entertaining people, will serve as an open door to begin their own explorations.

Addition Begin Code Door
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I think one reason my books have found mainstream success is that they're written from a skeptical point of view.

Books Found Point Reason
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I still get up every morning at 4 A.M. I write seven days a week, including Christmas. And I still face a blank page every morning, and my characters don't really care how many books I've sold.

Blank Face Books Care
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I know when I go and see a writer, the first thing I think to myself is, 'Are they the character in the book?' You just can't help it; it's the way people are.

Book Character First First Thing
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I will not write a lame follow-up. It could take me 20 years. But I will never turn in a book that I'm not happy with.

Book Happy Lame Could
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The thing that's going to make artificial intelligence so powerful is its ability to learn, and the way AI learns is to look at human culture.

Ability Artificial Culture Human
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Sometimes a book influences me because it winds me up. There'll be something that gets under my skin and makes me think that I can do better.

Because Better Book Gets
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When I left school at 16, I became an apprentice television and radio technician, and was paid £17 a week, which was decent money in 1976. But the job turned sour when I gave myself an electric shock while repairing a television set.

Apprentice Became Decent Electric
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The idea is not enough. And the most annoying thing for me as a writer is that people will come up to me and say, 'Hey, I've got a great idea for a book. I'm not a writer, but I've got a great story.'

Annoying Book Come Enough
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It's probably an intellectual weakness, but I look at the stars, and I say, 'There's something bigger than us out there.'

Bigger Intellectual Look Something
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That's the kind of consumer society we live in. We're always looking for the next product that's going to change your life instead of just going out and changing your life.

Always Change Changing Consumer
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I don't really think about genre. I like to write books that I'd love to read myself.

Books Genre Like Love
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I love to learn, and at some level, there's something to learn from my books. And I love art and philosophy, so there's something philosophical about my fiction.

Art Books Fiction Learn
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