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I read Freud because I find him an excellent writer... a writer of police thrillers that can be followed with great passion.

Because Excellent Find Followed
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In 'Cosmicomics,' I came close to science fiction - I was inspired by cosmological subjects and the workings of the universe and invented a character who was a sort of witness to everything that was happening inside the solar system.

Came Character Close Everything
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Sometimes I try to concentrate on the story I would like to write, and I realize that what interests me is something else entirely, or, rather, not anything precise but everything that does not fit in what I ought to write.

Anything Concentrate Does Else
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Rarely does an interviewer ask questions you did not expect. I have given a lot of interviews, and I have concluded that the questions always look alike. I could always give the same answers.

Alike Always Answers Ask
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Every day I tell myself that reading newspapers is a waste of time, but then... I cannot do without them. They are like a drug.

Cannot Day Every Every Day
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The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny.

Among Certainly Desirable Difficult
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A tale is born from an image, and the image extends and creates a network of meanings that are always equivocal.

Always Born Creates Image
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I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.

Been Great Inventions Made
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What is modern art but the attempt to pinpoint vague, incorporeal, inexpressible sensations? What is modern art, I would add, but the most solemn pile of nonsense that ever appeared on Earth?

Add Appeared Art Attempt
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My stories are full of facts; they have a beginning and an end. For that reason, they will never... occupy a place in contemporary literature.

Beginning Contemporary End Facts
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I think today that politics registers very late things which society manifests through other channels, and I feel that often politics distorts and mystifies reality.

Channel Feel I Feel I Think
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I like animals, all animals. I wouldn't hurt a cat or a dog - or a chicken or a cow. And I wouldn't ask someone else to hurt them for me. That's why I'm a vegetarian.

Animals Ask Cat Chicken
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I was fortunate enough to have an upbringing that made me more accepting of who I am.

Accepting Am Enough Fortunate
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I do not fault anyone else who makes choices to play characters that they wished they hadn't... Because at the end of the day, none of us are happy with our jobs all the time.

Anyone AnyoneElse Because Characters
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I love working with the same actors repeatedly. That happens a lot. It's kind of inevitable, especially if you work with the same writers and directors and you start to form a company of actors. You gravitate towards each other.

Actor Company Directors Each
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I spend my nights just sitting and reading a book and drinking my tea and walking my dog. That's about as exciting as my life gets.

About Book Dog Drinking
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My family had a habit of collecting creatures that didn't always want to be pets. The first animal I can remember was a Lab named Zoe.

Always Animal Collecting Creatures
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Because something or someone looks or acts differently from us does not necessarily mean that it is ugly or bad.

Someone looks Acts differently Ugly
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I hope that I helped to build a fierce pride in what we are and what we can do if we set our minds to it.

Hope Build Fierce pride Minds
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Great moments in science: Einstein discovers that time is actually money.
Great moments Science Time Money
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I think one thing that's important to maintain is a sense of fear, always doubting yourself... a good dose of insecurity helps your work in some ways.

Think Important Fear Always doubting
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The message is not so much that the worms will inherit the Earth, but that all things play a role in nature, even the lowly worm.
Message Worms Inherit Earth
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I didn't feel that my identity was caught up in being a cartoonist, and that if it stopped I'd stop.

Feel My identity Caught up Cartoonist
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As a kid I used to raise snakes. Obviously, my social life was a bit down at the time. But it took me a while to realize that with an interest like that people are going to think there's something wrong with you.

Kid Raise snake Social life Interest
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The thing I love about making movies is the peace of mind that I know I don't have to be perfect the first time. I can be perfect the second time or the third time.

Love Making movies Peace Mind
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What we learned quite early on is what was really important to early British pop that we produced-and this is where we were distinct from almost everybody else in this respect-is that it had to reflect exactly what the audience wanted us to say.

Almost Audience British Distinct
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I just could not believe that 30 years later we're still looking at people who are supposed to write little 2-minute pop that when they actually try to do something that's a little bit more they regard it as pretentious.

Actually Believe Bit Could
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When you fall in love, and you're very young, you think that that's the love of your life. And maybe it is, but it usually doesn't turn out that way.
Fall In love Young Life
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What I took back, because of my exposure to the Jewish music of the 30s and the 40s in my upbringing with my father, was that kind of theatrical songwriting. It was always a part of my character. This desire to make people laugh.

Always Back Because Character
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The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage.

Accompany Any Dramatic Itself
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I trust if your life is right, the right things will happen at the right time. If the chords are in harmony inside, I think other things will happen in the same way. That sounded highfalutin' to me once, but I believe it now.

Trust Your life Happen Right time
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When your mother gives you confidence about anything that you do, you carry that confidence with you.

Mother Confidence Anything Do
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The world is not based on fairness. Human beings can rise to fairness, can administer something that makes it fair or just. But that's not God.

The world Based on Fairness Human being
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I said something really stupid once. I told a friend that my mother was so beautiful, but my dad was ugly. My dad heard it and just laughed it off, but I felt guilty. It haunted me for years. I should never have said that.

Something really Beautiful
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I never thought of it as God. I didn't know what to call it. I don't believe in devils, but demons I do because everyone at one time or another has some kind of a demon, even if you call it by another name, that drives them.

Never thought God Believe Devils
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Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.
Man loves Small Burning candle
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We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.
Remember Observe nature
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The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.

Fly Swatted Secure Lights
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Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.

Nothing makes Old Thought Growing older
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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Sure conviction Reason Good minds
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Whether at work, at home or in public, we have been trained to believe that who we are at the core of our being is often unacceptable. As a result, we work diligently to live up to - and sometimes down to - what others have made us out to be, whether or not it is an accurate reflection of who we are.

Accurate Been Being Believe
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In order to feel loved, be respected and stay connected, we humans have a tendency to lie. We lie about who we are, what we want, what we need, what we have done or will do. Perhaps 'lie' is too strong a word. Let me say that what we do is withhold the truth.

About Connected Done Feel
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We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.

Someone Occupies Official position
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At times I have long conversations with God. Sometimes I ask questions. I admit that there are also times when I let out my frustrations, fears, and anxieties in less than honorable ways. No matter what I pray about or how I pray about it, the result I always get is comfort.

About Admit Also Always
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I knew all of the childhood prayers I uttered on my knees at the side of my bed. Many years of Sunday-school attendance had etched certain Psalms and rote prayers into the fibers of my brain. However, somewhere deep inside of me, I had the secret belief that I did not know how to pray, and that frightened me.

Attendance Bed Belief Brain
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It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.

Everywhere Greater part Human wisdom
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My father never kissed me, hugged me or told me that he loved me. As my only living parent, he became the filter through which I saw myself, the possibilities for my life, the world and all men. He was a conflicted and dark filter.

Became Dark Father Filter
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For most of my life, I believed that my father had broken many of my bones. They were emotional and psychological bones; things no one could see, things that caused me to limp through life clutching for and holding on to people and situations that often rendered me immobile.

Believed Bones Broken Caused
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It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists

Gift Employing Vicissitudes Life
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To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.

Receive applause Works Demand Power
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