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Anybody who tells you they're not scared when starting a new book project is a very good liar.

Anybody Book Good Liar
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I love playing with language and the rhythm of language - for some reason, this seems so much easier for me to do when I get to make things up than when writing nonfiction.

Easier Get I Love Language
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I am human like everyone else. I am aware that there are people who look up to me. When mistakes are made, they aren't intentional, and I constantly push myself to be a better person.

Am Aware Better Better Person
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When I speak about 'we,' it gets very complex very quickly. Having grown up in the United States, but also being very much a member of Nigerian societies and also different parts of Nigerian societies, I understand that we construct particular 'we's.'

About Also Being Complex
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When it comes to inmates, we have boiled them down to just the few things we know about them - their crime, their current life situation, their identification number. But the reality is they were something before they were their crime.

About Before Crime Current
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I think there's something really thrilling to having to get people laughing about something, and then, when you have them in that comfort space, you can drop the weight into the texture of the story.

About Comfort Drop Get
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I loved 'Ghana Must Go' by Taiye Selasi. It's about a first-generation African family living in America that has to return home to Nigeria when their estranged father passes away.

About African America Away
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I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go.

Acting Angry Get Go
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It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

Depends Difficult Get His
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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

Created Problems Same Solve
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I think it's not a femme fatale when someone is not doing it to manipulate men or be like a black widow. She loves him. She does it out of love. She wants him so badly to stay with her.

Badly Black Does Doing
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When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.

Girl Relativity Second Courting
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It sounds trite to go after men who are nice but when you've been hurt a lot it becomes appealing.
After Appealing Becomes Been
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When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice. The Bible tells us, 'How good and pleasant it is when God's people live together in unity.'

Pleasant Prejudice Good Heart
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Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.

Walk Winner Being Enough
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I had to endure the worst time of all in terms of racial discrimination in Hollywood when I first started out. It was inconcievable to American directors and producers that a Mexican woman could have a lead role.

American Could Directors Discrimination
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When somebody challenges you, fight back. Be brutal, be tough.

Back Brutal Challenges Fight
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It's a great thing when you can show that you've been successful and that you've made a lot of money and that you've employed a lot of people.

Employed Great Lot Money
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You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

Chair Deny Down Favorite
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I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.

Be Prepared Funny Guess Houses
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I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.

Back Been Cried Damaged
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You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it's going to happen.

Clicks Else Going Happen
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I'm still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed hours to me.

Always Blessed Feel Hours
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A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder.

Bear Beauty Beholder Children
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That's when you know you're the greatest: when you're the greatest, and people still put odds against you.

Against Greatest Know Odds
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Imagine your family finally making it from nothing to something, and finally getting things going, and finally buying a beautiful house and taking care of your children - and the next day, it's completely all gone. Zero. Boom. Flat broke. So that's when I had to man up.

Beautiful Boom Broke Buying
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If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.

Men Women How Pass
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I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it's just depressing to me. The poor little kids.

Bus Day Depressing Even
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I feel lazy when I'm not working. I learned all my business sense from my dad. He always believed in me, and I think the last thing he said to me before he passed away was, 'I know you're gonna be OK. I'm not worried about you'.

Feel Lazy When Working
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I love when people underestimate me and then become pleasantly surprised.

Love When People Underestimate
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When I'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next.

Inspired Come Next See
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My songs are like my children - I expect them to support me when I'm old.

Children Expect Like Old
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Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you've got something to share.

Experiences Failure Got Great
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You've got to quit lowering your standards. Set your requirements up front so when a guy hooks you, he has to know this is business.

Business Front Got Guy
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Some people say that I have an attitude- Maybe I do. But I think that you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does- that makes you a winner right there.

Attitude Believe Believe In Yourself Does
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I know how men think when they're not responding to questions in a clinical study.

Clinical How Know Men
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My father instilled in me to take care of my family. Show up even when you don't want to show up.

Care Even Family Father
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From the time I was taught how to drive, I was taught how to behave when I'm stopped.

Behave Drive How Stopped
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When you're happy at home, you can make a lot of things happen.
Happen Happy Home Lot
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You've got to be vulnerable when you're talking to kids. There's nothing worse than some adult standing up there just talking down to some kid. You can't work that way.

Adult Down Got Just
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As always, whenever I'm contacted by the White House, I'm just humbled.

Always House Humbled Just
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Pharrell loves music. When I'm with him, it's like I'm working with someone that I've known all my life, and we're both there to make the sickest track we can.

All My Life Both Him Known
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When I was trying to make songs to go to America, to go to Japan, they'd never work.
America Go Japan Make
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When I do music videos, I like to do a take, then see how it looks, so I can correct it.

Correct How I Can Like
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I was about 18 when I started making music, making beats. My mindset was totally different.

About Beats Different Making
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There are people who take on different objectives and missions in life. When you grow older, there's a a void - and right now, I'm filling a space where a lot of old rock, grime, hip-hop, punk artists left a vacant space.

Artists Different Filling Grow
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Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.

Beauty Most Adorned When
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Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.

Calls Devil Engaged Ever
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There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.

Always Between Breeze Cracking
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I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

Am Appear Beautiful Clarity
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