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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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Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way, the hardest thing about writing poetry is waiting for that music, and sometimes you never know if it's going to come.

Language Music Necessity Never
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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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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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Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.

Away Exhausting Far Know
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People think of Latina women as being fiery and fierce, which is usually true. But I think the quality that so many Latinas possess is strength. I'm very proud to have Latin blood.

Being Blood Fierce Fiery
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There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.
Begin Beginning Continue End
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As a woman, you spend so much time either cooking or getting ready to go somewhere. I like to have music when I'm doing either of these things.

Cooking Doing Either Getting
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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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One country, one constitution, one destiny.
Constitution Country Destiny One Country
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We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty.

Been Liberty People Regard
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Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny.

Borne Constitution Country Destiny
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When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.

After Ahead Decided Fully
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One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Calls Continue Find Greatest
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My philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around.

Any Around Invest Money
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Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Courage Every Form Point
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Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

Expense Gratified Instinct Claim
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A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

Humility Infinitely Listening Lying
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In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.

Analysis Else Existence Fails
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It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

Being Dangerous Decisions Hands
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Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.

First First Step Goals Invisible
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Just because your ratings are bigger doesn't mean you're better.

Because Better Bigger Just
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Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

Chance Continue Death Delighted
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I didn't get here for my acting... but I love show business.

Acting Business Get Here
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Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

Deep Nonsense Religion Science
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If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?

Believe Disservice Long Reason
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
Exception Extinction Rule Survival
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I mean, there's no point in sittin' around and cryin' about spilt milk. Gotta move on.

About Around Gotta Mean
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For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility. And the responsibility for me is to invest in creating new businesses, create jobs, employ people, and to put money aside to tackle issues where we can make a difference.

Businesses Create Creating Difference
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Who gets the risks? The risks are given to the consumer, the unsuspecting consumer and the poor work force. And who gets the benefits? The benefits are only for the corporations, for the money makers.

Benefits Consumer Corporations Force
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We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.

Back Bar Bunch Dice
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The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.

Between Democracy Dictatorship Difference
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Somebody once asked me what my theory of life was, and I said, 'Don't try.' That fits the writing, too. I don't try; I just type.

Asked Fits Life Once
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The thing that I fear discriminating against is humor and truth.
Against Fear Humor Thing
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My days, my years, my life has seen up and downs, lights and darknesses. If I wrote only and continually of the 'light' and never mentioned the other, then as an artist, I would be a liar.

Artist Continually Liar Life
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When I say that basically writing is a hard hustle, I don't mean that it is a bad life, if one can get away with it. It's the miracle of miracles to make a living by the typer.

Bad Basically Hard Hustle
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Sometimes I've called writing a disease. If so, I'm glad that it caught me.

Caught Disease Glad Sometimes
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I kept writing not because I felt I was so good, but because I felt they were so bad, including Shakespeare, all those. The stilted formalism, like chewing cardboard.

Bad Cardboard Chewing Felt
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When everything works best, it's not because you chose writing but because writing chose you. It's when you're mad with it, it's when it's stuffed in your ears, your nostrils, under your fingernails. It's when there's no hope but that.

Best Chose Ears Everything
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My love is a hummingbird sitting that quiet moment on the bough, as the same cat crouches.
Cat Love Moment Quiet
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Those who have been writing literature have not been writing life.

Life Literature Those Writing
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Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.
Ever Life Made Many
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The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

Joy Meeting Pain Parting
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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Character Crucible Difficulty Forms
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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Any Changes Consistent Got
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It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
Decision Destiny Moments Shaped
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The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.

Call Luck Meeting Offspring
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If you want to be more productive, then start at the start: get there on time. Whether it is a meeting, a flight, an appointment or a date, it's important to ensure you are there when you say you will be there. This may feel like an old-fashioned tip to give, but it has served me well for five decades in business.

Appointment Business Date Decades
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Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.

Certain Circumstances Confronting Does
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