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My dad was a Presbyterian minister. Yes, I am one of those dreaded P.K.s - Preacher's Kids. Be afraid.

Afraid Am Dad Dreaded
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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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I love to be scared. Not, 'Hey, I think I smell smoke...' scared, but creepy, paranoid, what's-that-out-there-in-the-dark, ghost story scared. It's no surprise that I was the girl who got invited to the slumber parties because I could be counted on to tell a tale to scare the bejesus out of you.

Because Could Counted Creepy
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I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?

Dress Funny Clothes Bow
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I was a big reader as a kid, but it was 'Charlotte's Web' that showed me you could feel as if you were actually living inside a book.

Actually Big Book Charlotte
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My joke is that my father was a minister and my mother was an English teacher, so I'm trained to see the world in terms of symbols, which is hard when you just want to make toast.

Father Hard Joke Just
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A big part of what I wanted to do with this character was go from when I was a boy and try and develop into a man, really try and play him as a man who is on this search, on a journey of personal, spiritual, political, social discovery.

Character Boy Develop Play
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We're comfortable with women in certain roles but not comfortable with women expressing anger or fully accepting their power. The most daring question a woman can ask is, 'What do I want?

Accepting Anger As Certain
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I came back out here from England and I was there for a while and it was beautiful and it is just great to see London going from Spring to Summer and Autumn.

Beautiful Great See Spring
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Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.

Actions Alone American American People
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My dad always said, 'Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.

Always Champ Dad Down
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Corruption is a cancer: a cancer that eats away at a citizen's faith in democracy, diminishes the instinct for innovation and creativity; already-tight national budgets, crowding out important national investments. It wastes the talent of entire generations. It scares away investments and jobs.

Away Budget Cancer Citizen
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I'm a very emotional person, a person of real extremes, and that's often destructive both to myself and others.

Emotional Extremes Destructive Person
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It is my view that we cannot conduct foreign policy at the extremes.
Cannot Conduct Extremes Foreign
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I don't do a film unless it has a sword in it. And if it doesn't have a sword in it, I insist that they have one in the same room to keep me comfortable.

Film Sword Insist Room
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The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society.

Devastating Punch September Society
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I always knew I was a star And now, the rest of the world seems to agree with me.
Agree World Star Rest
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I got to work with one of my heroes, Johnny Depp, and to see how he goes about business, which was really inspiring for me at this stage in my career.

Work Heroe Business Inspire
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Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to.

American Free Freedom Idea
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I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.

Study Theater London Suggest
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I had the training at drama school where I studied Shakespeare and Brecht and Chekov and all these period historical playwrights and I think that I responded to the material.

Training Drama School Study
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When I'm dead are they going to remember me ? I don't really think about it, it's up to them. When I'm dead, who cares ? I don't.

Dead Think Care Remember
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Can you imagine how terrible it is when you've got everything and you're still desperately lonely? That is awful beyond words.

Imagine Desperately Lonely Beyond
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I missed my home - like the physicality of my home, I missed my friends and my family mostly and just hanging out and being in your home country - culturally it feels right and that is what I miss.

Miss Home Physical Friend
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Excess is part of my nature. Dullness is a disease. I really need danger and excitement. I'm never scared of putting myself out on a limb.

Disease Danger Excitement Limb
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When I'm dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance.

Dead Musician Worth Substance
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What you must understand is that my voice comes from the energy of the audience. The better they are, the better I get.
Better Voice Audience Energy
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When God loves you, He places the love of you in the hearts of the people whose love is worth having.

God Love Place Heart
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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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Love the people you think you’d want to be with in the Hereafter.
Love People Think Want
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I was born to love you with every single beat of my heart. I was born to take care of you every single day of my life.

Love Care Single Life
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Sometimes you don’t realize how special something is until you lose it. That’s how I feel about Ramadan every year.

Realise Special Lose Feel
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A concert is not a live rendition of our album. It's a theatrical event.

Concert Event Theatrical Rendition
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If you don’t love your brother enough to respectfully voice your concerns about him directly to him, then at least have enough respect to not tear him up behind his back.

Love Brother Respect Concern
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No age is good to get married at. You got to be a fool to get married.

Marriage Fool Funny Age
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You're headed for disaster cos you never read the signs Too much love will kill you every time

Time Read Headed Signs
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Prayer is not the only time of day that you should be talking to God.

Prayer Time Day Talk
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A comparison between the triplets tentatively deduced by these methods with the changes in amino acid sequence produced by mutation shows a fair measure of agreement.

Amino Acid Mutation Methods
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When people wear you out, spend time in isolation with God, and your relationship with Him will improve as well as with the people.

People Isolation God Time
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Almost all aspects of life are engineered at the molecular level, and without understanding molecules we can only have a very sketchy understanding of life itself.
Aspect Molecules Life Sketchy
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Positive thinking isn’t ignoring life’s problems, it’s understanding that God can make a way out for you if you sincerely try.

Positive Think Ignore Problem
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Altering a gene in the gene line to produce improved offspring is likely to be very difficult because of the danger of unwanted side effects. It would also raise obvious ethical problems.

Gene Offspring Effect Obvious
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Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved.

Biologists Constantly Designed Evolved
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Chance is the only source of true novelty.

Chance Novelty Source Only
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When you treat people well, those same people might not treat you the same way. But if you pay attention, you’ll notice that God has sent other people who treat you even better.

Treat People Attention God
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I also suspect that many workers in this field [molecular biology] and related fields have been strongly motivated by the desire, rarely actually expressed, to refute vitalism.

Motivated Expressed Vitalism Refute
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In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy and especially dislike reading experimental papers. He (René Thom) seemed to have very strong biological intuitions but unfortunately of negative sign.

Intellectually Strong Biology Lazy
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