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Nigeria confuses kids by telling them to be patriotic irrespective of ethnicity only to use state of origin as admission criteria in schools.

Confuse Patriotic Origin State
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It is not important for me as a writer that you leave a piece of writing of mine with either an agreement or even a resonance with what I have said. What is important is that you leave with the resonance of what you have felt and what you thought in reaction to that.

Agreement Either Even Felt
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The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader.

Absolutely Best Reader Writer
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I'm conscious of a series of circles working its way through my life. And at this particular moment I have come round to the beginning of my writing cycle. It begins with poetry. There's hardly a day that goes past on which I don't write poetry.

Beginning Begin Circle Come
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Artists and writers have to deal with the element that makes the real real and the dream real while you are dreaming it. That's where stories and poems get their power.

Artists Deal Dream Dreaming
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When I write a poem, I go into a state of self-forgetfulness, and something higher takes over; I like to call it my best self.

Best Call Higher Like
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I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers, actors, singers, all good artists do the same. It isn't supposed to be easy.

Singers Artists Role Audience
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I can only write about personal stuff, about my point of view.
Stuff About Personal Write
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My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.

Favorite Life Money Precious
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I doubt I'll be singing forever, because at some point people aren't going to want to hear my music, and I hope that I'll still get the opportunity to write songs.

Doubt Singing Forever Because
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I wouldn't be able to write a song like 'Someone Like You' and get someone else to sing it because it's so personal. It's like giving away your heart.

Able Wouldn't Write Song
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I can't write another breakup record. That would be a real cliche.

Write Another Breakup Record
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The best compliment I get every year is that a band will write me and say, 'We were just on tour, and we had people coming to our show saying they had never heard us before they heard us on your show.

Heard Show Coming Compliment
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I'm not a very good writer. I'm working at it.

Good Working Writer Very
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All my big heroes are literary, writers.

All.Literary Heroes Big Writers
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Writers simply have to write, and not worry so much about what people think, because public opinion is such a difficult horse to ride.

Ride Horse Difficult Public
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I believe it is important to speak to your readers in person... to enable people to have a whole picture of me; I have to both write and speak. I view my role as writer and also as oral communicator.

Believe Both Communicator Enable
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I think the U.K. is an amazing place and has been extremely good to me. Some of my favorite and most-listened-to bands are from England. I have met many good people there and have been in front of some of the most loyal audiences I have ever encountered.

Amazing Extremely England Encountered
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Seven-11 is the pulse-beat of America. I think that Bruce Springsteen should do a song about a 7-11 in Asbury Park, New Jersey, but write it in such a way that American's youth can identify and slurp along with the Boss. Hail the Boss! Hail 7-11!

Youth Slurp Boss American's
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If I am constantly working, my relationships fail. So at least now I can have enough time to write a happy record. And be in love and be happy. And then I don't know what I'll do. Get married. Have some kids. Plant a nice vegetable patch.

Constantly Working My Relationship
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I don't write songs about a specific, elusive thing.

Don't Write Songs About
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If I were a writer and not a singer in 10 years, I don't know how I'd feel about writing really personal songs and getting someone else to sing them.

If Were Writer Singer
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In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing.

Could Evidently Full Hollywood
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Being in New York is an almost overwhelming experience. While Washington, D.C., is my favorite American city, I regard New York City as the most amazing city in the world. No other comes close. It is an incredible, inexhaustible engine.

Incredible Engine Close Exprience
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The day you write to please everyone you no longer are in journalism. You are in show business.
Write Journalism Show Business
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If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
Write Read Book Written
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The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.

Cancel Finger Half Having
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I'm one of those people who has to write. If I don't write, I feel itchy and depressed and cranky. So everybody's glad when I write and stop complaining already.

Complaining Cranky Depressed Everybody
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Sitting in my favorite coffeehouse with a new notebook and a hot cup of java is my idea of Heaven.

Cup Favorite Heaven Hot
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I got married in Florence, Italy. My husband and I were in love but totally broke, so we eloped and got married in Italy, where he was going on a business trip. We had to pull a guy off the street to be our witness. It was incredibly romantic. Florence is still one of my favorite cities in the world.

Broke Business Cities Favorite
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I grew up doing theatre and spent a long time as a playwright. I still think very visually when I write.

Doing Grew I Write Long
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Naming my favorite books feels like naming a favorite child - impossible.

Child Favorite Feels Impossible
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In terms of love, you're not in control and I hate that feeling. I seem to write a lot of sad songs because I'm a very tragic person. But there's always an element of humour at the end.

Hate Write Tragic Person
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I always counsel aspiring novelists that passion is the most important quality for a writer to possess - technique can be taught, but that relentless desire to write has to come from within.

Always Aspiring Come Counsel
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Before I write the first page of a novel, I spend a long time creating detailed backgrounds for my characters. I imagine the experiences that have formed them, what makes them happy, angry, fearful, and what they yearn for.

Angry Backgrounds Before Characters
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I've always been a reader and a writer.

Always Been Reader Writer
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When you are young, hone your craft and write shorter pieces instead of novels, because it's really hard to finish a novel.

Because Craft Finish Hard
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Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scene you're trying to write. Writing about is easier than writing, and chances are, it will give you your way in.

About Chances Easier Find
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Dialogue is the place that books are most alive and forge the most direct connection with readers. It is also where we as writers discover our characters and allow them to become real.

Alive Allow Also Become
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Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.

Able After Alone Been
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.

Ideas Intelligence Kind Really
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One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds.

Favorite Tenets People Agree
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Barack Obama did tell me that I was one of Michelle Obama's favorite actors.

Obama Michelle Tell Me
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Not everyone realises that to write a really good piece of journalism is at least as demanding intellectually as the achievement of any scholar.

Achievement Any Demanding Everyone
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A lot of times songs are very much of a moment, that you just encapsulate. They come to you, you write them, you feel good that day, or bad that day.

Bad Come Day Feel
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A relationship with God simply cannot grow when money, sins, activities, favorite sports teams, addictions, or commitments are piled up on top of it.

Relationship God Simply Cannot
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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Down How Live Sit
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A writer in someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is.

Writer Someone Spends Years
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Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

Best Composition Goes Luck
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When another writer in another house is not free, no writer is free.

When Another Writer House
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