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Some stories, my property, have been stolen. Someone's appropriated them. It's an illicit act. It's unfair. Suppose you had a coat you liked, and somebody went into your closet and stole it. That's how I feel.

Act Been Closet Coat
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I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and my work.

Aloof Doing Kind Known
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As much as I love to dive into the action early, I think the hero's journey is important - the idea that the reader needs to experience the protagonist's everyday life before you turn that world upside down.

Action Before Dive Down
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I start with a beat sheet, which is more of an abbreviated outline. It hits all the major plot points. From there, I move to note cards. But the most important part of my process is my inspiration board.

Beat Board Cards Hits
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At the beginning of a new project, often before I do any actual writing, I collect photos, quotes, song lyrics, and even objects that relate to the characters or the world I'm creating.

Actual Any Before Beginning
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The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.

Abyss Black Delving Fascination
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Lead a quiet life, mind your business and develop a strong work ethic. A frienzied lifestyle will not enhance your prospects of fulfilling your dreams.

Dream Lead Mind Life
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Adversity pursues sinners, but the righteous will be rewarded with prosperity.

Prosperity Rewarded Sinners Adversity
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I have concluded that Literature is no proper pursuit for a gentleman and that Writing ought never to be consider'd but as an elegant Accomplishment to be indulg'd in with infrequency and Discrimination.

Accomplishment Concluded Discrimination Elegant
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No one's promised anything. You could have the biggest record on radio and sell no records.

Nas
Anything Biggest Could Promised
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The reason why time plays a great part in so many of my tales is that this element looms up in my mind as the most profoundly dramatic and grimly terrible thing in the universe.

Dramatic Element Great Great Part
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Write out the story - rapidly, fluently, and not too critically - following the second or narrative-order synopsis. Change incidents and plot whenever the developing process seems to suggest such change, never being bound by any previous design.

Any Being Bound Change
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When you have a daughter, you want to protect her from the things that I've seen out there, you know, the things that's out there that ain't good for her. It's a crazy world we live in.

Nas
Crazy Crazy World Daughter Good
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I am not very proud of being an human being; in fact, I distinctly dislike the species in many ways. I can readily conceive of beings vastly superior in every respect.

Am Being Beings Conceive
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One can never produce anything as terrible and impressive as one can awesomely hint about.

About Anything Hint Impressive
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The earliest English attempts at rhyming probably included words whose agreement is so slight that it deserves the name of mere 'assonance' rather than that of actual rhyme.

Actual Agreement Attempts Deserves
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Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.

Any Communism Largely Like
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Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort.

Beauty Because Concentrating Effort
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I don't know if proud is the right word, but I am somebody who does not, on the whole, have the highest regard for my own stuff in that when I look all I get to see are the flaws.

Am Does Flaws Get
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In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning not to trust people, publicists and so forth, implicitly.

Been Book Contract First
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

Belief Defined Faith Illogical
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For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.

Answer Clear Complex Every
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A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.

Capable Individuals Made Original
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If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.

Among Cannibals Constituents Dinner
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From my childhood I had been intended for the clergy. This prospect hung like a dark cloud on my mind.
Childhood Clergy Prospect Hung
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It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects.

Paradoxical True Ignorant Absolute
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When I was 7, my proudest possession would have been my bookshelf 'cause I had alphabetized all of the books on my bookshelf.

Been Books Cause Had
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Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

Busy Criticize Improving Keep
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Sometimes even on an hourly basis we need to keep praying and keep our peace in God and remind ourselves on the promises of God that never fails.

Basis Even Fails God
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There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.

Problems Survival Nuclear Catastrophe
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If you ask the CEO of some major corporation what he does, he will say, in all honesty, that he is slaving 20 hours a day to provide his customers with the best goods or services he can and creating the best possible working conditions for his employees.

Corporation Honesty Creating Conditions
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Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.
Promise Crying Babies Carried
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When every physical and mental resources is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.

Physical Mental Resources Focused
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Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.

Problem Seed Solution Seed
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A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.

Killing Professional Soldiers War.people
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If Saddam were to be replaced tomorrow he would probably be replaced with someone who's just as bad or worse than he is.

Saddam Replaced Tomorrow Bad
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Well, unfortunately, I have always regretted the fact that I have a temper, but I also have, you know, have great love and respect for all of the people that have worked for me. I think like everything else, this is one of those things that has been blown out of proportion.

Unfortunately Regretted Fact Temper
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Every time in an interval of time in history, the human spirit is tested and challenged by an affliction or a pestilence, and with faith and resilience, we have always proven to be indomitable.

History Time Human spirit Affliction
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When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.

Attention Because Commitment Energy
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The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.

Principle Psychological Product History
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Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.

Language Principles Generation Interpretation
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All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.

Popular Propaganda Pressure Helpless
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Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

Education Self-fulfilment Environment Explore
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
Propaganda Democracy Bludgeon Totalitarian
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The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.

Justification Cultural Deficit Survival
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The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert.

Honored Bible Prophets Jailed
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'Work while it is day...for the night comes when no man can work' I find myself thinking about how profoundly deep this statement is

Work Day Night Thinking
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The central pillar of our justice system is due process. You have got to be charged with a crime. Then you can challenge those charges in a court of law with a trial.

Trial Law Crime Process
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Science should always be in the business of attempting to disprove itself.

Always Attempting Business Disprove
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It will be written on my tombstone in very large letters, 'Here lies Hikaru Sulu,' and in very tiny letters, 'aka George Takei.' I don't protest the inevitable.

Protest Large Lies Very
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