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Through my films I'm eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don't know if I'm ever going to get there, but I'm slowly letting pieces of myself out there and then maybe by the time I'm 85, I'll look back and say, 'All right, that about sums it up.'

About Back ByTheTime Day
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Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

Another Darkness Emptiness Fell
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Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

Any Enough Few Instincts
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The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Aggregate Along Also Each
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A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.

Man Like Can Be
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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
Business Exciting Life Lived
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Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.

Ten Men Waiting The
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Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

Creating More Never Problem
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Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.

Love Isn't An Emotion
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Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.

About Any Art Beyond
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Since I was three I've been playing the piano. I've been onstage. My mother is an Evangelist and I used to play the piano at her revival meetings.

Three Playing Piano Onstage
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I have always looked at my competencies before accepting any responsibility.

Accepting Always Any Before
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The world gets older, without getting either better or worse and so does literature. But I do think that the drab current phenomenon that passes for literary studies in the university will finally provide its own corrective.

Better Current Does Either
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What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love.

Amongst Art Artist Audience
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Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.

Best Between Charter Continuing
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Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.

Area Life Made Making
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Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.

Grave State Cry Fear
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I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff.

Always Books Darker Drama
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Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

Age Body Quitting Soul
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I hope our hopes and aspirations are bigger than setting records.

Records Hope Bigger Our
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There is dissatisfaction in all of us. Some of us take out that dissatisfaction by attempting to ruin whatever you are attempting to do. This is a fact of life.

Attempting Dissatisfaction Fact Life
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I don't believe in writing anything that I don't know about or haven't researched about personally. I like to transport the reader to places, and in order to do that I have to do the research.

About Anything Believe Know
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I really fall in love with my characters, even the bad ones. I love getting together with them. They tell me what to do; they take me on a wild and wonderful trip.

Bad Bad Ones Characters Even
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We're trying to be that franchise that year-in and year-out is competing for a championship.

Championship Competing Franchise Trying
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I write about the American dream: if you set your mind to do something, you can do it. My fans know they're getting the real thing.

About American American Dream Dream
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It has been an interesting road, but I wouldn't trade any of it for the world, because I feel like all of those instances in my life I felt molded me and strengthened me and made me who I am.

Felt Life Road Feel
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I have written 20 books, and each one is like having a baby. Writing is not easy; some people want to write books but just can't put a story together. I can put together a story that interests both me and my readers.

Baby Books Both Each
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Authors change publishers because it's like being married for a long time and suddenly you want to go out and have a wild affair! No, not seriously, sometimes the deal is more interesting with a new publisher, and other times they have more enthusiasm for your books.

Affair Authors Because Being
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If you want to achieve your dreams, you must follow them, and the best way to follow them is not to think about wanting to be very rich, but to think about doing something that you really want to do.

About Achieve Best Best Way
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Do not copy my style! The first rule of writing is write about what you know, not what you think you know. So, think about what you've done in your life and write about that.

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I actually have a fear of the water because I nearly drowned. I got caught in a rip tide, and I wasn't a good swimmer because that was when I was emigrating from England to Australia.

Actually Australia Because Caught
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Women in their 40s have gone through quite a few different things, and so the roles are going to reflect that. People say, 'Oh, it's done by 40,' and now everyone knows it's not. I actually feel like the roles are a lot more interesting.

Actually Different Different Things Done
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I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught.

About Anybody Basically Caught
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Acting is not my favourite thing. I don't like wearing costumes and wigs.

Acting Costumes Favourite Like
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Music enriches people's lives in the same way paintings and literature do. Everybody deserves that.

Deserves Everybody Literature Lives
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In London it's easy not to be the focus of attention, especially when Sting lives in the house just behind you.

Attention Behind Easy Focus
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All my friends started getting boyfriends, but I didn't want a boyfriend, I wanted a thirteen-colour biro.
All My Friends Boyfriend Boyfriend Friends
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You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

Assault Over Lead Head
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Airplanes are interesting toys, but of no military value.

Airplane Interesting Military Toys
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I feel that my fans have cultivated my talent and they continue to nurture me

Continue Cultivated Fans Feel
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

Bound Disregard Fair Fair Play
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The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

Aims Between Clear Enemy
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Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

About Bring Chaos Connected
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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

Accepting Beliefs Both Contradictory
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In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

Defense Largely Our Our Time
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Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

Adult Age Eight Expose
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If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?

Advantage Any Appears Cannot
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To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

About Actual Cities Civilization
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We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.

Find Food Long Long Run
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Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

Minus Serious Shooting Sport
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