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The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.

Best Luck Make You
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When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

Another Best Know Life
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We read, frequently if not unknowingly, in search of a mind more original than our own.

Read Frequently Mind
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Aesthetic criticism returns us to the autonomy of imaginative literature and the sovereignty of the solitary soul, the reader not as a person in society but as the deep self, our ultimate inwardness.

Criticism Imagination Literature Soul
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Consciousness is the materia poetica that Shakespeare sculpts as Michelangelo sculpts marble. We feel the consciousness of Hamlet or Iago, and our own consciousness strangely expands.

Consciousness
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At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy.

Bad Bad Moments Literary
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The work of great poetry is to aid us to become free artists ourselves...The art of reading poetry is an authentic training in the augmentation of consciousness, perhaps the most authentic of healthy modes.

Art Poetry Consciousness
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But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society... but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude.

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What is love but a prelude to sorrow...with heartache ahead for your goal.
Love Prelude Sorrow Headache
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Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties, but you must fall in love with poems.

Adolescence Come Criticism Even
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My passion is to create a better society for our future citizens.
Better Citizens Create Future
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I demand perfection in what I do, and I practice very hard before I give a concert-sometimes three to six hours a day.

Demand Perfection Practice Concert
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I don't like to go to strange places. I was in Italy for about five hours on my way to Africa.
Strange Italy Five hour Africa
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All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is.
Ceases Critic Deadly Encouragement
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The biggest impediment to growth is in our minds and not in the world outside, and only constant in the world is change.

Biggest Change Constant Growth
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The unique instrument to eradicate poverty and usher in prosperity is our youth.

Eradicate Instrument Our Poverty
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To me, patriotism is about working ethically and wholeheartedly in our chosen field.

About Chosen Ethically Field
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The FBI and our entire government has become a bureaucracy. Sick, tired, and old as far as technology is concerned. This has to change.

As Far As Become Bureaucracy Change
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I think the thing that our government lacks - just about more than anything else - is technological competence. We have some of the greatest white-hat hackers in the world here in the U.S., but the government seems to be technologically illiterate.

About Anything Anything Else Competence
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Jealousy, greed, fear. We're all full of these things. But also love and compassion. If you saw a drowning baby, it wouldn't matter if you were wearing a tuxedo on the way to your own wedding. You'd jump in to save him.

Also Baby Compassion Drowning
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Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.

Area Life Made Making
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Politicon should be applauded for recognizing the increasing impact of technology, not only on American social and economic systems but on the very structure of our system of politics.

American Economic Impact Increasing
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People are afraid of their own lives. Shouldn't your goal be to have a meaningful life? Unknown, mysterious, thrilling?

Afraid Goal Life Lives
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Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.

Fear Bred Arms Geared
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Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.

Grave State Cry Fear
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I think that it's when we step out of the road, step outside the box, become our own person, and we walk fearlessly down paths other people wouldn't look at, that true progress comes. And sometimes true beauty as well.

Beauty Become Box Down
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I feel as much British as I do American. There's not much difference between our countries.

American Between British Countries
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I hope our hopes and aspirations are bigger than setting records.

Records Hope Bigger Our
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It's always nerve-racking to take off your clothes on film. But doing it with a woman felt safer than with a man. You know you can say, 'Don't grab me there: That's where my cellulite is'!

Always Clothes Doing Felt
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Our mobile phones have become the greatest spy on the planet.

Become Greatest Mobile Mobile Phones
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On set is where I feel comfortable. The red carpet stuff, talking about the film, explaining your own life, it doesn't come naturally. It's all necessary stuff I suppose but it's not my strength.

About Carpet Come Comfortable
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Who is ready to settle for five minutes when three hours does nicely?

Does Five Hours Minutes
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The husbands, who sometimes have another family who's grown, are going, Now I can spend time with my baby. Oh yeah, I bet your other family is really thrilled.

Another Baby Bet Family
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We're so afraid of death in our culture, but I think if we understand it better, then we'll appreciate the life we have more.

Afraid Appreciate Better Culture
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I was never confident about finishing a book, but friends encouraged me. When I finished my first book, it was accepted by a publisher right away and became an instant bestseller. One male critic called it the most shocking book he ever read.

About Accepted Away Became
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You have to make peace with yourself. The key is to find the harmony in what you have.

Find Harmony Key Make
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I write about the American dream: if you set your mind to do something, you can do it. My fans know they're getting the real thing.

About American American Dream Dream
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There are no tricks to balancing work and family. It is a struggle all the time, and you just do your best. I think men are much better at compartmentalising.

Balancing Best Better Do Your Best
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Authors change publishers because it's like being married for a long time and suddenly you want to go out and have a wild affair! No, not seriously, sometimes the deal is more interesting with a new publisher, and other times they have more enthusiasm for your books.

Affair Authors Because Being
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Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.

About Always Attached Craving
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You've got your hands full if you have three children under 2 years old.
Children Full Got Hands
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Maybe in the workplace I have more courage than other areas in my life.
Area Courage Life Maybe
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If you want to achieve your dreams, you must follow them, and the best way to follow them is not to think about wanting to be very rich, but to think about doing something that you really want to do.

About Achieve Best Best Way
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As you get older, you overthink and can talk yourself out of anything. It's good to be a bit reckless and experimental.

Anything Bit Experimental Get
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Do not copy my style! The first rule of writing is write about what you know, not what you think you know. So, think about what you've done in your life and write about that.

About Copy Done First
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This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

Trust Proud Fear Avoid
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Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history.

History Party Hear Farm
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Acting is not my favourite thing. I don't like wearing costumes and wigs.

Acting Costumes Favourite Like
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Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.

Action Ensure Real Today
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'Born this Way' is about being yourself, and loving who you are and being proud.

About Being BeingProud BeingYourself
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