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Almighty. On this blessed day, help us to realize our Ramadan goal in getting closer to You. Soften the hearts of those who’ve yet to feel the sweetness of this month; don’t let them give in to despair.

Almighty Blessed day Realize Getting closer
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To all those who have drawn the inference from my words that Africa, as a continent, is somehow genetically inferior, I can only apologise unreservedly.

Africa Continent Drawn Genetically
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Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.

Always Been Breakthrough Exciting
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It's so difficult writing about living people.
About Difficult Living People
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May Allah accept our fasting, forgive our sins, wash away the pandemic that covers our nations and heal the globe.

Accept Our fasting Forgive Sins
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Everyone gets what is in their destiny, let's stay strong and pray for the best in this trying time.

Everyone Destiny Strong Pray
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Learn to value yourself by fighting for your happiness.

Learn to Value Fighting Happiness
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Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Corrupt Defeating Leads Legislation
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It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.

Democracy Exhibit Form Law
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While boasting of our noble deeds we're careful to conceal the ugly fact that by an iniquitous money system we have nationalized a system of oppression which, though more refined, is not less cruel than the old system of chattel slavery.

Boasting Noble deeds Ugly fact Iniquitous
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All that a good government aims at... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities.

Abstain Accumulate Add Aid
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They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that 'one man is as good as another;' a maxim that is true in neither nature, revealed morals, nor political theory.

Another Boldly Ends Feeling
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The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting the rest, is a visionary unsuited to control the business of the world.

Affairs Any Business Consulting
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The European who comes to America plunges into the virgin forest with wonder and delight; while the American who goes to Europe finds his greatest pleasure, at first, in hunting up the memorials of the past. Each is in quest of novelty, and is burning with the desire to gaze at objects of which he has often read.

America American Burning Delight
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Paris enjoys a high reputation for the style of its public edifices, and, while there is a very great deal to condemn, compared with other capitals, I think it is entitled to a distinguished place in this particular.

Compared Condemn Deal Distinguished
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For the first time in 23 years I'm enjoying the process of supporting it, of going out and doing shows, and doing the interviews, and doing everything.

Doing Enjoying Everything First
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My record label is treating me like I'm a new artist, which is exciting after all this time.
After Artist Exciting Label
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I needed an outlet in high school and came across painting. I've actually been painting longer than I've been acting. A movie is a collaborative effort, and with painting you just have yourself.

Across Acting Actually Been
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I was kind of scared of failing at acting.
Acting Failing Kind Scared
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Because I was starting out in my 20's. I wanted to do it on my own. I didn't want to use my dad or have people say I was using him.

Because Dad Him MyOwn
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Acting is an art form and you want to take roles that are challenged and it's more of a challenge I think to play dark characters. Not that I want to always play those, but it is a challenge and challenges are rewarding and fun.

Acting Always Art Art Form
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I'm starting to teach now: I teach in the graduate film program at NYU and next year I'm going to be teaching at Los Angeles at the film program and English program at UCLA.

Angeles English Film Going
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I was an English major at UCLA when I was 18, and then I left after a year to start acting. I was educating myself during that time.

Acting After Educating English
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There's a tendency, when you're directing yourself, not to give the performance as much care, because you feel like there's too much focus on yourself, or that all these people are just standing around setting everything up, waiting for you.

Around Because Care Directing
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When I was starting out, doing guest spots on TV, and even commercials, I would go in with a whole crazy wardrobe and some terrible accent. Obviously, I was doing too much. If you bring too much flavor to it, it's absurd. There's something to just being spontaneous.

Absurd Accent Being Bring
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There's nothing like sitting back and talking to your cows.

Back Cows Like Nothing
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I'm destined to be attracted to those I cannot defeat.

Attracted Cannot Defeat Destined
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I'm going to try to not let anyone put me in a box, and that certainly applies to the things I do outside of acting.

Acting Anyone Box Certainly
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I used to read a lot about myself and the projects I was doing. When I was only acting, I wouldn't read any reviews because I didn't find them to be very helpful.

About Acting Any Because
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Reviews about film acting are very... tricky, because movies are such a collaborative thing.

About Acting Because Collaborative
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Because acting was my only professional outlet, I put a ton of pressure on the roles that I did. I overstepped my bounds, I tried to control things that were out of my purview as an actor and in some cases even tried to direct my scenes because I felt I knew how they should run rather than trust the director.

Acting Actor Because Bounds
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I acted professionally for about eight years, and I was writing all that time but never showed anybody any of it. There just came a point after those eight years when I thought, 'There's a lot I can do with acting - there are a lot of things I can express and do creatively, but there are also limitations.'

About Acted Acting After
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When I started writing after my career as an actor, I knew that that other life in the film industry would be pulled into my writing life and that people would see me not as an author but as an actor starting to write.

Actor After Author Career
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I guess what I enjoy most is directing, because it incorporates all aspects of filmmaking. Directing is in the same line as acting - both are popularity contests, and in both you're trying to tell a story through the film as a medium.

Acting Aspects Because Both
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Directing, editing, and everything about filmmaking has definitely changed me as an actor.

About Actor Changed Definitely
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School allowed me to have outlets so that some of the pressure was taken off the acting. Every role in every movie, I used to live or die by. Once I had these new outlets, I relaxed a lot more.

Acting Allowed Die Every
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I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs.

Animals Be Kind Care Child
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I love writing about my job because I loved it, and it was a particularly interesting one when I was a young man. It was like holidays with pay to me.

About Because Holidays I Love
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I think it was the fact that I liked it so much that made the writing just come out of me automatically.

Automatically Come Fact I Think
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Surely there comes a time when counting the cost and paying the price aren't things to think about any more. All that matters is value - the ultimate value of what one does.

About Any Cost Counting
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I'm sick to death of famous people standing up and using their celebrity to promote a cause. If I see a particular need, I do try to help. But there's a lot that can be achieved by putting a check in the right place and shutting up about it.

About Achieved Cause Celebrity
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You don't want to be starting a film not knowing what you want to do.
Film Knowing NotKnowing Starting
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War isn't just about bravery and courage and jingoism and patriotism. It's also fundamentally about grief. And the people that go and do the fighting and the dying are never the people who actually benefit from the fighting and the dying.

About Actually Also Benefit
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At 49, I find it a little bit difficult to run these days. I've got grade four tears in both Achilles, shin splints, I got no cartilage the toes in my right foot, I've got bone marrow edemas under both knees, I've got one degenerating hip - that's the problem you get.

Achilles Bit Bone BoneMarrow
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Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.

Balance Ground Happy Hunting
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Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.

Else Love Love Is Mother
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I'd done stage musicals for quite a few years, starting with 'Grease' in Auckland.

Done Few Grease Musicals
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Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.

Committed English Ever Explains
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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

Come Enemy Fighting Foreign
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A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.

Administer Assemble Citizens Consisting
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