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The Marcos era was the golden time for the Philippines. We had the lowest crime rate in the world in Manila and real development then. At last, people are starting to understand this.

Crime Crime Rate Development Era
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The Philippines is a terrible name, coming from Spain. Phillip II was the father of the inquisition, who I believe died of syphilis. It is my great regret that we didn't change the name of our country.

Believe Change Coming Country
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So for us any gain we had in election, one vote that we got, was a win.
Any Election Gain Got
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People didn't wasn't the People's party to come in to power again, so they saw NS a viable alternative not us, because everyone knew we were not ready.

Again Alternative Because Come
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If one area I felt it was a tough election was I couldn't see my young son and I couldn't see my wife a lot, but apart from that for her also it was an experience.

Also Apart Area Election
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Cruel of heart, lay down my song. Your reading eyes have done me wrong. Not for you was the pen bitten, And the mind wrung, and the song written.

Cruel Heart Song Reading-eyes
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Oh, friend, forget not, when you fain would note In me a beauty that was never mine, How first you knew me in a book I wrote, How first you loved me for a written line....

Friend Forget Fain Beauty
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Into each dance must be packed the panic and ecstasy of her last moment of life, for underneath was death.

Dance Packed Ecstasy Moment
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I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself.

Act Any Being Concept
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I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling tradition: everybody would have a story at the pub or at parties, even at the clubs and raves.

Celtic Clubs Even Everybody
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I wanted to be an outstanding player, that was my ambition.

Ambition Outstanding Player Wanted
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And when the pressure was on us, the team handled it very well. One has to learn to play well under pressure.

Handled Learn Play Pressure
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Cross-cultural marriage is difficult, especially when one person has to live in another country. But I thought there was a very good chance of it working because people grow together if they have a common passion.

Another Because Chance Common
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When I came into politics I always thought there was a possibility I would be killed.

Always Came I Came Politics
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I wanted to capture the excitement of house music, almost like a four-four beat, and the best way to do that was to use a language that was rhythmic and performative.

Almost Beat Best Best Way
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I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn't getting the same kind of excitement from them that I was from going out clubbing. I wanted to get the same kind of feel.

Always Books Clubbing Excitement
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It was around the summer of 1982 when the drug problem really impacted. It became a lifestyle rather than a recreation. When you start lying and stealing, you cannot con yourself you're in control any more.

Any Around Became Cannot
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Mother was actually a great doer and organizer. All the special occasions were directed by mother.

Actually Directed Doer Great
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When I first started to get into writing, it was via music. I'd generate ideas for songs that would turn into stories, then they'd turn into novels. I was biased toward music.

Biased First Generate Get
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I grew up in a very religious household. My mom was a church organist. I was a religious kid.

Church Grew Kid Very
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When I left school at 16, I became an apprentice television and radio technician, and was paid £17 a week, which was decent money in 1976. But the job turned sour when I gave myself an electric shock while repairing a television set.

Apprentice Became Decent Electric
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Everybody in my family were great storytellers. My dad and his brothers would just go on and on; they could tell amazing stories. I think it was something to do with the Celtic, oral storytelling tradition. People very much had that propensity towards telling tales.

Amazing Brothers Celtic Could
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When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.

Am Boy Call Grown
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I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.

Accurate AccurateInformation Add Believe
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I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
Believing Enough Fooling Grow
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From an early age onward, it was said that 'Ingmar has no sense of humor.'

Age Early Early Age Humor
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We didn't know that Mother had gone through a passionate love affair or that Father suffered from severe depression. Mother was preparing to break out of her marriage, Father threatening to take his own life.

Affair Break Depression Father
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I have always appreciated the honest brutality of the international film world. One need never doubt one's worth in the market. Mine was zero.

Always Appreciated Brutality Doubt
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I was booed at the premiere of 'Miss Julie,' a remarkably stimulating experience.

Experience Julie Miss Premiere
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My education was very tough.

Education My Tough Very
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Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.

About Construction Creating Father
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I was bloody ill-tempered when I was young.

Bloody Was Tempered Young
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I was very much in love with my mother. She was a very warm and a very cold woman. When she was warm, I tried to come close to her. But she could be very cold and rejecting.

Close Cold Come Could
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When I was young, I was extremely scared of dying. But now I think it a very, very wise arrangement. It's like a light that is extinguished. Not very much to make a fuss about.

About Arrangement Dying Extremely
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I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.

About Did Going Life
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I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18.

Alone Care Earned Grown
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I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn't shut up!

Ever Had Human Inside
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I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside.

Cheeks Day Down Enough
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The waste basket is the writer's best friend.

Basket Best Best Friend Friend
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If only we knew what was happening when we pray, we would never cease to pray.
Praying Happenings Ifs Cease
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Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.

Burden Freedom Lost Never
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I felt a little green, because Shakespeare writes the thought process within the text; it was tricky not to think of what to say and then say it, and instead just deliver the lines.

Because Deliver Felt Green
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I'm a games and theory kind of guy. I love puzzles, so it was fun dissecting Shakespeare's prose.

Fun Games Guy I Love
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It is said that the 1966 coup that failed was strictly an Igbo coup, but then the irony of history is that it was the late General Aguiyi Ironsi, an Igbo who single-handedly dismantled the coup in Lagos, while my humble self, another Igbo-man rendered it immobile in the north.

1966 Coup Igbo Aguiyi Ironsi
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To us, waiting is wasting. To God waiting is working.
God Work Adoption Waiting
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I got inspiration to write 'Love Don't Lie' while sermon was being preached on a Sunday morning.

Inspiration Write Love Sermon
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I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels.

Convinced Ever Novels Only
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Many people waste their time, trying to act when they know very well that they can’t act, but they stay due to the beaming benefit.

People Waste Time Act
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I will never forget the year 2020 the year we kept washing our hands without expecting food.
Never Forget Year Washing
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I'm a happy guy. I like to joke around. I'm irreverent. I love my family; I love my son. I was very happy with and proud of the birth of my son. I grew up a lot after he was born. I'm just an easy and happy guy.

After Around Birth Born
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