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Writing has never been that simple for me.

Been Me Never Simple
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I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.

Change Childhood Fact Father
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There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.

Effects Other Subtle Travel
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I wrote a piece for the school literary magazine that now makes me think: 'My God in Heaven, this is just the worst drivel.

God Heaven Just Literary
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It's an article of faith that the novels I've loved will live inside me forever.

Article Faith Forever Inside
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I've met many, many writers who say they would never write about their family, never write about people they did not totally make up. But that is not the composition of my character.

About Character Composition Did
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The worst part about being married is when you're not connecting. Your partner is going out the door when you're coming in, and you don't have a chance to debrief on the day. That's the worst.

Worst Part About Married
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A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.

End Good Good Meal Meal
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I started off as a juggler. I used to do a half-hour show on the weekends to make money as a kid. Then I went to Cleveland, Ohio in 1983 to the international jugglers competition junior division and came second. So that was my first job, being a juggler.

Started Juggler Used Half
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I did a play called 'On Golden Pond' in a dinner theater in Maine and then went to New York for a talent competition having put together a three-man juggling routine and some one-liners and I got myself an agent from that.

Play Golden Pond I
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I think TV is much more the writer's medium and film is about the director and their vision and how you can collaborate with them and see that through to the end. They are so different.

Think Tv More Writer
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I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.

Admit Am Does Even
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With bikes, it is absolutely the case that you will get what you pay for. Invest in quality so it will endure wear and tear.

With Bikes Absolutely Case
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People really do like seeing their best friends humiliated; a large part of the friendship is based on humiliation; and that is an old truth,well known to all intelligent people.

People Intelligent Well Known
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A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.

Money Emotion Real Gentleman
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This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.

Create Dance Get Like
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I think dreams can come true, but not necessarily like fairy-tales. It's not always so perfect like that.

Think Dreams Come True
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Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

Any Art Measure Qualities
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I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it.

Believe Capitalist I Believe Only
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God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.

Been Body Call Ever
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The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.

Architect Beauty Carefully Comfort
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The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.

Divides Ever Hope Lies
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Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn't honor it, who refused to take responsibility for it, get destroyed by it. I also saw that stardom in and of itself was empty.

Fame Delicate Dangerous Creature
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Sometimes in television, if there are storylines that are oft-told, people can be hypercritical of them.

Sometimes Television Storyline Told
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The key to a successful marriage is accepting that you're not going to change the other person. And the words

Key Successful Marriage Accepting
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I think fame is one of those things where you have a window of opportunity and you have a certain amount of trust from the fans and without that you don't have a career.

Fame Think One Things
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I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.

Am Cannot I Am I Can
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It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.

Actual Determines Outward People
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I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

Always Bad Believe Transform
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For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the word itself.

Associated Become Beloved Childhood
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When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for that is where the most significant discoveries turn up.

Childhood Discoveries Eternal Glow
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A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.

Book Curious Good Good Book
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This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.

Around Changes Contentment Else
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When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.

Agree Carrying Intention Mean
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There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.

America Children Idiots Protects
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By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
Believing Create Desired Does
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No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.

Christian Civilization Other Possessing
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From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

Any Back Certain Certain Point
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You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

Avoid Back Could Free
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Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish

Everyone Fears He Man
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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Able Before Being Never
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Only the ideas that we really live have any value.
Any Ideas Live Only
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An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

Accumulation Association Consumed Distribution
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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

Any Been Believing Does
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It's often said that look at the message and not the messenger, but there are times when you can only decipher the message by looking at the messenger.

Message Often Looking Times
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Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret.
Cannot Like Love Ordinary
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It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.

Comforting Arithmetical Disproportion Only
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Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.

Beauty Deepest Enhance Highest
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The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.

Appearance Being Exactly Fact
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Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

Believe Believer Doubt Makes
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