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I'm single. I don't have a family. I certainly don't have to work. I don't want to be the richest man in the cemetery.

Cemetery Certainly Family Man
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A man who fails is funny... if my sketches teach anything, it is that, for the male, sex is a snare and a delusion. What's so corrupting about that?

Anything Delusion Fails Funny
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I don't covet images or belongings. My television set and video are rented, any paintings aren't worth a fortune, and money is of little interest.

Covet Fortune Images Interest
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Democratic socialism means that we must create an economy that works for all, not just the very wealthy.

Create Democratic Economy Means
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You know, I think many people have the mistaken impression that Congress regulates Wall Street. In truth that's not the case. The real truth is that Wall Street regulates the Congress.

Case Congress Impression Know
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Before Social Security existed, about half of America's senior citizens lived in poverty.

America Before Citizens Existed
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I remember one time being told I could not play in a basketball game at the College of William and Mary because I was black, even though I was playing with a United States Army team.

Army Basketball Because Being
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Finally, let us understand that when we stand together, we will always win. When men and women stand together for justice, we win. When black, white and Hispanic people stand together for justice, we win.

Black Finally Hispanic Justice
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I think it makes people in the Pentagon kind of nervous to know that chemical agents and environmental factors could cause so much damage in terms of what may happen in the future.

Agents Cause Chemical Damage
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I am very much interested in getting parents to read to children, and trying to get people mentoring children. If I can do both I'll be happy.

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The Federal Reserve has a responsibility to ensure the safety and soundness of financial institutions and to contain systemic risks in financial markets.

Contain Ensure Federal Financial
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These are the same people who believe, in some cases, the federal government should not play any role in providing health care to our people or protecting the environment.

Believe Care Cases Environment
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I like being in control of making all the major decisions pertaining to my projects. That's something that you don't get to do in a group. Everything has to be voted on - every minor decision.

Being Control Decision Every
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I keep threatening to keep a formal journal, but whenever I start one it instantly becomes an exercise in self-consciousness. Instead of a journal I manage to have dozens of notebooks with bits and pieces of stories, poems, and notes. Almost every thing I do has its beginning in a notebook of some sort, usually written on a bus or train.

Beginning Bits And Pieces Dozens Every
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Unfortunately, we are finding the bureaucratic inefficiencies and red tape have a tendency to slow the efforts of individuals and communities working to rebuild.

Bureaucratic Communities Efforts Finding
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There were two very distinct voices going on in my head and I moved easily between them. One had to do with sports, street life and establishing myself as a male... The other voice, the one I had from my street friends and teammates, was increasingly dealing with the vocabulary of literature.

Between Dealing Distinct Easily
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I'll never live to write all the stories I have in my head.

Head Live Never Stories
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My younger brother's death in Vietnam was both sobering and cause for reflection. In 'Fallen Angels' I wanted to dispel the notion of war as either romantic or simplistically heroic.

Angels Brother Cause Death
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With acting, I started very young, and I'd performed for a lot of children in boarding schools, late at night after the dormitory lights were out. I'd have a flashlight, and I'd be Count Dracula, or Shakespeare, or Yogi Bear, and leap from bunk to bunk. I loved the laughter; I liked the way it made people feel.

Acting After Bear Boarding
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Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.

Bored Happiness Happy Here
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I considered myself very lucky after 'Baghdad Cafe,' and I have 'The Shield.' In every genre, I've kicked butt at some point. I'm real happy.

Considered Every Genre Happy
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.

Boring Character Male Pretty
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I've got a general callout with the Caribbean world in which I'm interested in helping in any way to get their well-written good stories out to the rest of the world. I am really interested in helping those stories get to a completion and public viewing.

Caribbean Completion General Good
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Sometimes you have a poem that you really want to write and it never happens.

Happens Never Poem Really
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When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.

Addictive Because Begin Happens
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In dance you use every party of your body except your voice. I wanted to start acting because I wanted to use my voice.

Acting Because Body Dance
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I tended to write poems about both social and spiritual problems, and some problems one doesn't really want to solve, and so the problems themselves are solved. You certainly don't want to solve problems in poems that haven't been solved in the world.

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I think poetry always lives its life, and people come to it and people go away from it, 'people' in the sense of larger numbers of people. It's as though you begin to think that poetry is a resource, and that at certain times people seem to need it or want it or can find sustenance in it, and at other times they can't.

Numbers People Poetry Resource
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My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a different thing.

Memorize Poems Poetry Quite
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Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.

Contrast Counterfeit Crises Deeply
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I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write; to think only of my own tastes and ideals, without a thought of those of editors or publishers.

Editors Formed Ideals Never
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I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches to be joined together later, but I have never felt the slightest desire to do this.

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The doctor who applied a stethoscope to my heart was not satisfied. I was told to get my papers with the clerk in the outer hall. I was medically rejected.

Applied Clerk Doctor Get
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The material came bubbling up inside like a geyser or an oil gusher. It streamed up of its own accord, down my arm and out of my fountain pen in a torrent of six thousand words a day.

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They managed to find time... to tell me that there was no chance of my being accepted for service and that really I should be surprised to still be alive.

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With two people and luggage on board she draws four inches of water. Two canoe paddles will move her along at a speed reasonable enough in moderate currents.

Along Board Canoe Currents
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The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
Cut Deserts Down Educator
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I know the responsibility that entails from telling a story. The one thing I despise the most is when I go to a movie and I see a whole bunch of lazy actors making me waste my time and money.

Actor Bunch Despise Entails
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There's nobody on this earth who can tell you that what you're feeling is wrong. They can tell you it's different to what they're feeling.

Different Earth Feeling Nobody
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The biggest battle that I have is being a woman in the world. That takes center stage for me.

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When I act, a part of me goes into the character I am playing.

Act Am Character Goes
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I don't believe actors who say they don't bleed into their characters. It's absolutely impossible not to.

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Every character has their reasons - even the characters who do dumb things.

Character Characters Dumb Even
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

Both Corrupts Flattery Giver
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I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.

Fact History Intrigued Man
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Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

Liberty Limited Must Order
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If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

Conclude Derived Good Happy
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The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.

Ages Been Contest Executive
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Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.

Beings Civilized Civilized Nations Earth
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An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.

Destroy Involves Necessarily Power
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