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In America they really do mythologise people when they die.

America Die People Really
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You have this idea that you'd better keep working otherwise people will forget. And that was dangerous.

Better Dangerous Forget Idea
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I've had a lot of people tell me they watched 'Old Dogs' with their kids and had a good time.
Dogs Good Good Time Had
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Sometimes over things that I did, movies that didn't turn out very well - you go, 'Why did you do that?' But in the end, I can't regret them because I met amazing people. There was always something that was worth it.

Always Amazing Amazing People Because
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With film roles, it just has to be a character either I haven't done before, or a role with somebody really interesting or with an interesting person or group of people.

Before Character Done Either
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The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.

Arises Authors Chief Every
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I found there was only one way to look thin: hang out with fat people.
Fat Found Hang Look
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The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.

Write Reason Good Books
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I worked in a pet store and people would ask how big I would get.

Ask Big Get How
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A people free to choose will always choose peace.

Always Choose Free Peace
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Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year.

Idea Once Only People
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Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.

About Any Anything Day
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Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census,' and people fall asleep.

About Asleep Census Certainly
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It's populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling.

Area Communication Communication Skills Day
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But HBO is less interested in how many people are watching than in how much the people who are watching are liking the show. They didn't set up their business model to make writers happy. It's just a nice unintended consequence.

Business Business Model Consequence Happy
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Don't ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it's the only thing that ever has.

Change Change The World Ever Forget
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I love writing but hate starting. The page is awfully white, and it says, 'You may have fooled some of the people some of the time, but those days are over, giftless. I'm not your agent, and I'm not your mommy; I'm a white piece of paper. You wanna dance with me?' and I really, really don't. I'll go peaceable-like.

Agent Dance Days Fooled
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The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.

Annoying Generally Going People
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The properties of people and the properties of character have almost nothing to do with each other. They really don't. I know it seems like they do because we look alike, but people don't speak in dialogue. Their lives don't unfold in a series of scenes that form a narrative arc.

Alike Almost Almost Nothing Arc
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People who know me well, call me Elizabeth. I dislike Liz.

Call Dislike Elizabeth Elizabeth I
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I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive.

Example Go Living People
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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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Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out.

Authority Being Best Carried
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It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available.
Available Because Believe Country
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Obviously the people that I admired, like the Beatles, were really into rock'n'roll, but it was already a little past rock'n'roll when I started listening and making my own choices about music.

About Admired Beatles Choices
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People do not make wars; governments do.
Governments Make People Wars
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People tend to repeat the same quotes at me that I said when I was 23. And of course, you say things then, and sometimes they're ill-advised.

Course Me People Quotes
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One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.

Against Everything People Time
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My family calls me Declan. But most people call me E.C. I think it comes from my dad. It's an Irish convention. You usually call the first child by the initials.

Call Calls Child Convention
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People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him.

Am Calling Destroy Find
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The Internet is overrated. It's much smaller an innovation than people think it is. I don't think it's changed the way anybody makes music.

Anybody Changed Innovation Internet
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I've had an unusual life. A life far removed from most people's experience.

Experience Far Had Life
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I can understand the Chinese Wall: it was built as a defense against marauders. But a wall such as that in Berlin, built to prevent people from seeking freedom, is almost beyond comprehension.

Against Almost Berlin Beyond
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There are too many people that depend on me. I'm too obligated. I'm in too far to get out.

Depend Far Get Many
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I like entertaining people. I really miss it.
Entertaining Entertaining People Like Miss
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The United States was born in revolution and nurtured by struggle. Throughout our history, the American people have befriended and supported all those who seek independence and a better way of life.

American American People Better Better Way
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Those people in New York are not gonna change me none.

Change Gonna Me New
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I don't think I'm bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this.

Back Bad Did Driving
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I thought, If people are going to write about what I'm wearing, then I would wear young British designers who need the publicity.

About British Designers Going
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I'm a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation. I think what people connect with in novels is this idea of an overpowering, encompassing love - and it being more important and special than anything and everything else.

Anything Anything And Everything Away Been
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I don't want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself.
Am Decide I Am Myself
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Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.
Care Find First Get
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When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth.

Accept Answer Ask Because
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Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.

Depend Like Make Material
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No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

Feeling Good Opera People
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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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People in general are used to seeing me as the naughty girl because that's what they've always cast me as.

Always Because Cast General
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If you're going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.

Change Change Things Going Hold
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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Bores Rich Down Office
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I think it's fun to look at people with big diamonds. I see them in my audience all the time, with the fur coat, a woman whose hand is always out front, or the two fingers are on the cheek to show her diamond. I don't have anything against that.

Against Always Anything Audience
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