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I like the nexus of Bollywood and Hollywood. I'm actually shocked that there isn't more of a meld between our two industries.

Actually Between Bollywood Hollywood
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I like the way you can circumvent the media gatekeepers and go right to the people. That's my favorite thing about Twitter.

About Favorite FavoriteThing Gatekeepers
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It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments.

Art Because Culture Education
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It gladdens my heart to see that women are working together for the good of our nation.

Gladdens Heart Women Working together
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I never believed marriage was a lasting institution. I thought that to be married for five years was to be married forever.

Believed Five Forever Institution
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When a person who is very ill decides to treat it like a slight virus, you play that game. If you make a big scene, I think it is yourself you are doing it for, not the person who's ill.

Big Decide Doing Game
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If I could have lived as an actress in any period, it would have been the 1920s - I would have loved to have been part of that speakeasy era.

1920s Actress Any Been
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That was my original dream, anyway, to be on stage. I think the stage is an actor's place because actors, it belongs to you.

Actor Actor Anyway Because
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It's just a fact of life that I don't think I've ever been taken particularly seriously in movies by movie makers. I don't know why.

Been Ever Fact Just
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I've always felt that work - learning from people who know more than I know - is what keeps you going.

Always Felt Going Keeps
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I adored 'Breaking The Waves,' so when Lars von Trier wanted me in 'Dogville,' I was beside myself with joy. He works in a way that nobody I've ever worked with works.

Adored Beside Breaking Ever
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My feeling about the movies is that most of them are terrible. If you don't have a decent script and a decent director, forget it.

About Decent Director Feeling
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Some people think my father was a spy, because of working for that government agency in Vietnam, but he can't find his car keys, much less keep a national secret.

Agency Because Car Car Keys
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The thing I don't like on television is when somebody does something that makes absolutely no sense just for the shock of it.

Absolutely Does Just Like
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Texting is not flirting, if you don't care about me enough to say the words than that's not love, I don't like it!

About Care Don't Care Enough
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I would like to be part of a family, however that looks. Family is really important to me.

Family However Important Like
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I just don't know that a TV show demands a movie ending.

Demands Ending Just Know
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Science coverage could be improved by the recognition that science is timeless, and therefore science stories should not need to be pegged to an item in the news.

Could Coverage Improved Item
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The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can always do it better, find the exact word, the apt phrase, the leaping simile.

Always Apt Beautiful Better
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I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence.

Adolescence Alone Always Had
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I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer.

Aunts Believe Books Could
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My dream was to be known as a writer and to be able to produce at least one book that would be read by people. That dream came true with the publication of my first novel - and all the rest has been a sweet bonus.

Able At Least One Been Bonus
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I have some friends, some honest friends, and honest friends are few; My pipe of briar, my open fire, A book that's not too new.

Book Few Fire Friends
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A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence.

Believe Delusion Despite Evidence
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It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

Ahead Grain Grain Of Sand Mountain
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There's a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep 'em all away from you. That's never possible.

Ugly things World Son Wish
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Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?

Proud Yourself Insulted Stranger
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The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think.
The books Read Thinks Makes
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Remember this also: it’s always easy to look back and see what we were, yesterday, ten years ago. It is hard to see what we are. If you can master that trick, you’ll get along.

Remember Always easy Look back Yesterday
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Cry about the simple hell people give other people- without even thinking. Cry about the hell white people give colored folks, without even stopping to think that they're people too.

Cry about People give Even thinking
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You see they could never, never understand that I live like I do because that's the way I want to live.

You see Never understand Live Way
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I came to the conclusion that people were just peculiar, I withdrew from them, and never thought about them until I was forced to.

Conclusion People Peculiar Withdrew
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I have often said that I am a passionate Darwinian when it comes to explaining why we exist.

Am Darwinian Exist Explaining
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We've all been brought up with the view that religion has some kind of special privileged status. You're not allowed to criticise it.

Allowed Been Brought Criticise
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What bothers me about TV is that it tends to take our minds off our minds

About Bothers Me Minds
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When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you until it seems that you cannot hold on for a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time when the tide will turn.

Tight place Goes against Cannot hold Give up
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Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good.

Any mind Capable Sorrow Good
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn

Never Give up Place Time
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For, so inconsistent is human nature, especially in the ideal, that not to undertake a thing at all seems better than to undertake and come short.

So inconsistent Human nature Undertake
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Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not true. Some of the smaller countries are neutral.

Against Countries Deep Deep Down
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So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.

So subtle Atmosphere Opinion Words
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I am one of the sort that lives by throwing stones at other people's glass houses, but I never mean to put up one for them to stone.

One Sort Lives Throwing stones
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I make no manner of doubt that you threw a very diamond of truth at me, though you see it hit me so directly in the face that it wasn't exactly appreciated, at first.

Manner Diamond Truth See it
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In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are His gift to all alike.
All ranks Life Human heart Beautiful things
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Let us resolve: First, to attain the grace of silence; second, to deem all fault finding that does no good a sin; third, to practice the grade and virtue of praise

Resolve Grace Silence Fault findings
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Abraham Lincoln. When he met Stowe, it is claimed that he said,
When Met Little woman Started
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Once in an age, God sends to some of us a friend who loves in us... not the person that we are, But the angel we may be

An age God sends Friend Loves us
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I certainly would absolutely never do what some of my American colleagues do and object to religious symbols being used, putting crosses up in the public square and things like that. I don't fret about that at all; I'm quite happy about that.

About Absolutely American Being
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It is with the oppressed, enslaved, African race that I cast in my lot; and if I wished anything, I would wish myself two shades darker, rather than one lighter.

Oppressed Enslaved Wished Lighter
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Is there anything in it glorious and dear for a nation, that is not also glorious and dear for a man? What is freedom to a nation, but freedom to the individuals in it?

Glorious Nation Man Freedom
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