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But HBO is less interested in how many people are watching than in how much the people who are watching are liking the show. They didn't set up their business model to make writers happy. It's just a nice unintended consequence.

Business Business Model Consequence Happy
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The properties of people and the properties of character have almost nothing to do with each other. They really don't. I know it seems like they do because we look alike, but people don't speak in dialogue. Their lives don't unfold in a series of scenes that form a narrative arc.

Alike Almost Almost Nothing Arc
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I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get, the younger their new wives get.

Afraid Age Certain Certain Age
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Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

Freedom Hands Law Loser
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What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.

About Cause Dangerous Evil
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It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.

Activity Arena Bodies Clearly
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I have felt for the last 10 years I have had this battle; I've been fighting so hard to have an education. It's been this uphill struggle. I was Warner Bros' pain in the butt. I was their scheduling conflict. I was the one who made life difficult.

Battle Been Bros Butt
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I love men and I like to get their attention.

Attention Get I Love Like
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The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

Difficulty Gain Glory Greater
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The Democrats do fine in presidential elections; their problem is they can't get out the vote in the midterm elections.

Democrats Elections Fine Get
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I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers.

Change Daughters Fathers I Think
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Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

AbAbsolute Power Also Come Lie
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It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Echo Example Eyes Imitate
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I think the actresses who are really successful are the ones who are comfortable in their own skins and still look human.

Actress Comfortable Human I Think
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I don't want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself. I want to avoid becoming too styled and too 'done' and too generic. You see people as they go through their career, and they just become more and more like everyone else.

Am Avoid Become Becoming
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Yes, I will put it out there - I will work for anyone for free if they're prepared to make their clothing Fair Trade and organic. It's really hard to get people interested in it.

Anyone Clothing Fair Fair Trade
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On occasion, I used to give presents to the kings, besides the hire that I gave to to their sons who accompany me; and nevertheless, they seized me with my companions.

Accompany Besides Companions Gave
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God knows how many things a man misses by becoming smug and assuming that matters will take their own course.

Assuming Becoming Course God
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From a neighbour, I got a one-day-old duckling and found, to my intense joy, that it transferred its following response to my person. At the same time, my interest became irreversibly fixated on water fowl, and I became an expert on their behaviour even as a child.

Became Behaviour Child Even
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I want to avoid becoming too styled, too 'done' and too generic. You see people as they go through their career, and they just become more and more like everyone else. They start out with something individual about them, but it gets lost.

About Avoid Become Becoming
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Practically all animals which move fast in a homogeneous medium have found means of giving their body a streamlined shape, thereby reducing friction to a minimum.

Animals Body Fast Found
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I like Valentino a lot - they never use actresses in their campaigns.

Actress Campaigns Like Lot
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Right at this moment, I only want silence. I believe that the end of life is silence in the love people have for you. I've actually been running through what people have said about the end. Religion says that the end is one thing, because it serves their purpose. But great thinkers alike haven't always agreed. Shakespeare knew how to say it better than anyone else. Hamlet says 'The rest is silence.' And when you think of the noises of everyday life, you realize how particularly desirable that is. Silence.

Running Believe Thinking
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One thing is certain: the arts keep you alive. They stimulate, encourage, challenge, and, most of all, guarantee a future free from boredom. They allow growth and even demand it in that time of life we call maturity but too often enter it with a childish faith that what we learned in youth is sustenance enough for the years when most men are mentally famished but won't admit it—or when they are apt to curb their hunger with the sops of complacency, security, and the assurance of death.

Art Maturity Men
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Mom and Pop were proud of my popularity, but from their point of view, show business was no way to make a living.

Business Living Make Mom
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From plants that wake when others sleep, from timid jasmine buds that keep their odour to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.

About All Day Away Breeze
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Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

Affair Discover Down Else
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I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I'd have done the same thing.

Been Done Gave Guess
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It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

Born Business How Learn
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People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I earned everything I've got.

Crook Earned Everything Got
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Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.

Chief Direction Had Influence
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Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I'm taking with me when I go.

Buried Egyptians Forever Get
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The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Beauty Believe Belongs Dreams
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If you are starving and young and in search of answers as to why your life is so difficult, fundamentalism can be alluring. We know this for a fact because former members of Boko Haram have admitted it: they offer impressionable young people money and the promise of food, while the group's mentors twist their minds with fanaticism.

Twist Minds Money Promise
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I bear no ill will against anyone on past events. Nobody should fear anything from me. We are not after anyone. People should only fear the consequences of their actions.

Past Actions People Event
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As far as the constitution allows me, I will try to ensure that there is responsible and accountable governance at all levels of government in the country. For I will not have kept my own trust with the Nigerian people if I allow others abuse theirs under my watch.

Watch People Trust Under
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I love my body. I'm very much OK with it. I don't think artists are ever the ones who have the problem with their weight, it is other people.

Love My Weight Body
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Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another.

Complain Genuinely Poetry First
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Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to intimidate their own populations.

Abroad African Armies Because
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In their greatest hour of need, the world failed the people of Rwanda.

Failed Greatest Hour Need
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We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their children.

Children Future Going Leave
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Unfortunately, very few governments think about youth unemployment when they are drawing up their national plans.

About Drawing Few Governments
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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Taste Irritating Direct Friends
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No matter how angry the gods are, a lion cannot be used for sacrifice..no one can take your life no matter their precedent in the act of extinction.

Act Lion Life Angry
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A leader who does not READ can't LEAD his people. He can only LID them by being the lid that blocks their progress in life

Leader Lead Lid Blocks
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Dont dominate people. They will rebel against you. Rather, dominate yourself and people will nominate you as their leader

Rebel Dominate Yourself Leader
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They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.

Head Just Me Might
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When it comes to everybody else's thing and their lane and their timing, I'm never doing anything intentional to, like, come after somebody. That will always be my biggest mistake or anybody's biggest mistake if that's their intention.

After Always Anybody Anything
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Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking to me, telling me their tales.

Alive Amazing Amazing Experience Characters
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That's the whole point of writing to me - I put my characters under incredible duress, and from that comes their truth. In a way, I'm using them to try to find my own answers in life.

Answers Characters Find Incredible
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