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People ask me where I'm from. I say Ireland, and they are like 'Really? You don't look Irish.' Then you have to explain... people are intrigued, but sometimes you think, 'Why do I have to tell my whole story every time I open my mouth?

Ask Every Explain Intrigued
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I think if you don't risk something in art, it's not really important.

Art Important Really Risk
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It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.

Arriving Been Difference Has Been
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I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge.

Bound Emerge Figures Little
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When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen.

Big Brush Building Choose
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I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan.

African Also Bad Even
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No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language.

Angry Foreign Foreign Language Gets
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Why is it the philosopher who is expected to be easier and not some scientist who is even more inaccessible?

Easier Even Expected Inaccessible
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For me, writing isn't a way of being public or private; it's just a way of being. The process is always full of pain, but I like that. It's a reality, and I just accept it as something not to be avoided.

Accept Always Avoided Being
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When I'm writing, I think about the garden, and when I'm in the garden I think about writing. I do a lot of writing by putting something in the ground.

About Garden Ground I Think
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May I make a suggestion, hoping it is not an impertinence? Write it down: write down what you feel. It is sometimes a wonderful help in misery.
Down Feel Help Hoping
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Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.

Few Genius Offended People
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There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.
Communal Defend Doctrine Every
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Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.

Science Existence Mankind Power
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Another term for preventive war is aggressive war - starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition.

Aggressive American AmericanTradition Another
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The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.

Unthankful heart No mercies Will find
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No one pours water in a glass that’s already full. Do you need to receive something this season? If yes, then present yourself before God empty!

No one Water Glass Season
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I like cooking, but I think someone else ought to do the dishes.
Cooking Dishes Else I Think
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I like to be in my pajamas all day. Sometimes I don't wash for days because I like to read and sit around. I like to eat in bed.

All Day Around Because Bed
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I grew up in this poor place, with very limited circumstances, at about 16 years of age was sent by my family to work, and instead of remaining in the position into which I was sent, I somehow worked my way out of it without any help from anyone, just luck.

About Age Any Anyone
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The English language started out as a distortion in my life, but nothing remains the same, and so the distortion is now just normal. That is one of the things that will happen to all distortions: They become normal and turn into something else.

Become Distortion Else English
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You know how some people write every day at a certain point? I'm not like that. I carry something around for a long time. I weigh the words and the sentences. I weigh the paragraphs. The process is much more meditative for me.

Around Carry Certain Certain Point
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When I write nonfiction, it's always absolutely true. There will be no moment in my nonfiction where I have made something up and have to apologize to the bullying hostess of a talk show.

Absolutely Always Apologize Bullying
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I think the crucial thing in the writing career is to find what you want to do and how you fit in. What somebody else does is of no concern whatever except as an interesting variation.

Career Concern Crucial Does
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Whatever I did, there was always someone around who was better qualified. They just didn't bother to do it.

Always Around Better Bother
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Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Everybody needs that.

Everybody Family Feed Forget
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I want to say to you, Help yourself, so you can help someone else.
Else Help Say Someone
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Sometimes I feel like I'm a preacher as well, 'cause I can really get into an audience.

Audience Cause Feel Get
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All over the web there are some very good critics and it's become for people who are interested. It's become a very good way to get to reviews and involve yourself in discussions.

Become Critics Discussions Get
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But the fact is, most people are not going to be rich someday.

Fact Going Most People
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You don't quit because you happen to be behind. You want to see how you do. And who knows? Maybe somebody will stumble

Because Behind Happen How
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I have some help on tweeting.

Help Some Tweeting
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I always thought of myself as a later bloomer, so I like some of my work more later than earlier.

Always Earlier Later Like
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You can have a movie with hardly any cuts, or very few cuts, that is fascinating, you can't take your eyes away from it... Look at some of the long takes in Citizen Kane.

Any Away Citizen Cuts
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Sometimes it's all about the casting.

About Casting Sometimes
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You don't want too much fear in a market, because people will be blinded to some very good buying opportunities. You don't want too much complacency because people will be blinded to some risk.

Because Blinded Buying Complacency
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I can always grow a little bit, and try to do something different. So I'm always looking for what's out there - the potential.

Always Bit Different Grow
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On this ancient and miraculous world, where such beautiful natural and living things have evolved, something has gone wrong when life itself is used as a manufacturing process.

Ancient Beautiful Evolved Gone
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If you can act as if something is true, in a sense that makes it true.

Act Makes Sense Something
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Sometimes miraculous films come into being, made by people you've never heard of, starring unknown faces, blindsiding you with creative genius.

Being Come Creative Faces
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Once the brokerage house, rather than the bank, became the locus for American savings, that money would find its way into the stock market, because the broker was someone with a much higher tolerance for risk than the banker.

American Bank Banker Became
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I'm dubious about having Social Security put into the stock market. I think that we have gotten very far away from the idea that there's something sacrosanct about retirement investments.

About Away Dubious Far
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What is courage? Let me tell you what I think it is. An indefinable quality that makes a man put out that extra something, when it seems there is nothing else to give. I dare you to be better than you are. I dare you to be a thoroughbred

Courage Think Quality Man
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We’re not going to be sitting around waiting for something to happen. We’re going to make things happen for ourselves.

Going Sitting around Happen Make things
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Write your own book instead of reading someone else’s book about success.

Write Won book Reading Success
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Some of the greatest blessings that God gives us are those that cannot be bought with money.

Money Bought God Blessings
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It's a shameful thing to admit for someone who writes such long books, but I read so slowly that I almost subvocalize.

Admit Almost Books Long
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About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

Time Make Ends meet Moves
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While some declare war on peace. We declare peace in war.

Peace Declare While War
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The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all law.

Worst evil Disregard Law Respect
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