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Everyone lives by selling something.

Everyone Lives Selling Something
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I think there are ghosts. I haven't seen or heard anything. I've definitely felt something, but it's not scary.

Anything Definitely Felt Ghosts
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I want a hit. I don't think anybody spends 12 months writing and recording an album, making something cool, and says, 'Great, I hope this doesn't sell.' I don't understand that mind-set. I want hits: a big bunch of them.

Album Anybody Big Bunch
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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But the way people commonly use the word nowadays it means something all of whose parts are mutually interdependent - not only for their mutual action, but for their meaning and for their existence.

Action Commonly Parts Existence
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As far back as I can remember, I knew there was something wrong with our way of life when people could be mistreated because of the color of their skin.

Back Because Color Could
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If you wait until the right time to have a child you'll die childless, and I think film making is very much the same thing. You just have to take the plunge and just start shooting something even if it's bad.

Bad Child Childless Die
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It took me a long time to realize that you have to have a bit of an interlanguage with actors. You have to give them something that they can act with.

Act Actor Bit Give
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Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee.

After Budget Camera Cheesy
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I blame it on Walt Disney, where animals are given human qualities. People don't understand that a wild animal is not something that is nice to pat. It can seriously harm you.

Animal Animals Blame Disney
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Every time you dive, you hope you'll see something new - some new species. Sometimes the ocean gives you a gift, sometimes it doesn't.

Dive Every Every Time Gift
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People call me a perfectionist, but I'm not. I'm a rightist. I do something until it's right, and then I move on to the next thing.

Call Me Move Move On
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People think that what I see diving must drive what I put into films, but that isn't really the case. When I am making a Hollywood production, I am telling a different kind of story. Of course, if I see something interesting that works, we will look at it, but they are different things.

Am Case Course Different
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You have to have sharp elbows if you want to change something.

Change Elbows Sharp Something
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I know a bit about selling books, and you need a good title - a catchy concoction with a little Cajun spice, something that will make folks stop in the aisles, turn away from the Grisham novels and the latest crazy diet fad, and pick up your masterpiece.

About Away Bit Books
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Like a lot of people, I pray for a sick relative or that kind of thing, but I don't pray to make my next flight connection at the airport. I find prayers before sports contests to be insensitive and kind of demeaning, at least when someone prays to beat the other team or something like that.

Airport Beat Before Connection
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Life is a veil, its paths are dark and rough Only because we do not know enough When Science has discovered something more We shall be happier than we were before.

Life A veil Dark Rough
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It's necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
Necessary Significant Slightly Something
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I’m hoping we begin to teach our kids a lot of skills, now that they’re way younger, instead of waiting till they get to a tertiary level so that they can have something profitable to do during their leisure time.

Hoping Teach Our kids Skills
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Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.

About Enhancing People Some
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We should govern our actions by assuming that people are more good than bad. Whereas, most of our social policies dictate that people are more bad than good. That you know if you do something, it'll be seized by the rich to exploit the poor.

Actions Assuming Bad Dictate
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I never could read science fiction. I was just uninterested in it. And you know, I don't like to read novels where the hero just goes beyond what I think could exist. And it doesn't interest me because I'm not learning anything about something I'll actually have to deal with.

About Actually Anything Because
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It feels really sad, to me, to go to a dark bedroom. It's like surrendering to the night or something.

Bedroom Dark Feels Go
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One of the things I've learned as a filmmaker is to have some aspect of the movie be something that I admire greatly, whether that's an actor I'm working with, the subject matter, or a book.

Actor Admire Aspect Book
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If I'm working on a film, I'll do sit-ups for before I shoot. Like, 100 in the morning or something.

Before Film Like Morning
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When I was starting out, doing guest spots on TV, and even commercials, I would go in with a whole crazy wardrobe and some terrible accent. Obviously, I was doing too much. If you bring too much flavor to it, it's absurd. There's something to just being spontaneous.

Absurd Accent Being Bring
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I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person - they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated.

About Attractive Because Committed
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We will not find the inner strength to evolve to a higher level if we do not inwardly develop this profound feeling that there is something higher than ourselves.

Develop Evolve Feeling Find
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Everybody has something to conceal.

Everybody Something Conceal
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An actor needs something to stabilize his personality, something to nail down what he really is, not what he is currently pretending to be.

Actor Need Stabilize Personality
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I never wanted to go longer than five years off the stage. Not necessarily musicals, but just doing a play or something.

Never Wanted Stage Musical
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Because I believe actually the more you do something, the less frightening it becomes because you start to realize the outcome is not as important as you think.

I believe Frightening Realize
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The word philosophy sounds high-minded, but it simply means the love of wisdom. If you love something, you don't just read about it; you hug it, you mess with it, you play with it, you argue with it.

Philosophy High minded Means Love
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You can always get better. Nobody can stop you from getting better, and nobody can stop you from trying to make something right.
Always Better Get Getting
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I'm a farmer now, and it's fantastic. My goal is to be totally self-sufficient and grow everything that I eat. There's something about earning your dinner that's cool.

About Cool Dinner Earning
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There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.

Poet Believe Leads Died
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