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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.

Laughed Lived Loved Man
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When you work with directors who really love actors, who love their contribution, it feels amazing. But sometimes when you work with directors, you feel like you're in the way.

Actor Amazing Contribution Directors
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I'm constantly doing new stuff, and I want it to be received really well. Who knows what's ego, what's business, what's artistic. It all shifts on a day-to-day basis.

Artistic Basis Business Constantly
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I refuse to totally grow up. I've always been someone who says and does things that push politically correct boundaries.

Always Been Boundaries Correct
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Ninety percent of my roles, I've had to fight for. It's only a really small percentage of people who get handed roles.

Fight Get Had Handed
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My job as an artist is to speak up for those who might be perceived as the losers. Or those who can't shout. No wonder public-school people always get into politics or acting: they're taught to shout that much more loudly.

Acting Always Artist Get
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It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.

Always Good men Most harm
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The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.

Woman Known only Man Wrong
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I've always had sort of an interest in American history, full stop, and especially people who contributed to the civil rights struggle.
Always American Civil Full
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People ask me where I'm from. I say Ireland, and they are like 'Really? You don't look Irish.' Then you have to explain... people are intrigued, but sometimes you think, 'Why do I have to tell my whole story every time I open my mouth?

Ask Every Explain Intrigued
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Deficits mean future tax increases, pure and simple. Deficit spending should be viewed as a tax on future generations, and politicians who create deficits should be exposed as tax hikers.

Create Deficit DeficitSpending Deficits
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Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.

Abstract Any Back Beginning
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I've met loads of black and brown and various people who are well into comics.

Black Brown Comics Loads
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What I have wanted to do is take roles that are unexpected for people who look like me. Roles that the establishment would say, 'Oh, she couldn't possibly be that.'
Establishment Like Look Me
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When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen.

Big Brush Building Choose
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I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to sign in an idiomatic, irreplaceable manner.

Believe Desire I Think Idioms
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I have always had trouble recognizing myself in the features of the intellectual playing his political role according to the screenplay that you are familiar with and whose heritage deserves to be questioned.

According Always Deserves Familiar
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No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language.

Angry Foreign Foreign Language Gets
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Who ever said that one was born just once?

Born Ever Just Once
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Why is it the philosopher who is expected to be easier and not some scientist who is even more inaccessible?

Easier Even Expected Inaccessible
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I don't trust anyone who doesn't change their mind.

Anyone Change Mind Trust
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Everyone who knew me as a child, they say they're not surprised that I became a writer because I wrote all the time. I don't remember writing, because I wouldn't have had the tools, but I think what they are saying is that I would pretend I was a writer.

Became Because Child Everyone
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I have a sense of destiny because of my mother, who was an extraordinary person but a terrible candidate for mother. She was like the god Cronus, who gave birth to his children in the morning and then ate them at night.

Ate Because Birth Candidate
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Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually read all, or almost all, the guaranteed Hundred Best Books. God save us from reading nothing but the best.

Actually Almost Anybody Best
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We wanted to meet him, for though we were neither of us naive people we had not wholly lost our belief that it is delightful to meet artists who have given us pleasure.

Artists Belief Delightful Given
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I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them.

Any Anyone Books Ever
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The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.

Fact Full Future Notion
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Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.

Few Genius Offended People
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Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman's heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned.

Every man Succeeded Effort Divinity
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Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.

Thank God Cheerful Happy stock
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You will find, if you think for a moment, that the people who influence you are the people who believe in you.

You People Influence Believe
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The people who influence you are the people who believe in you.

People Influence you Believe in
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To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain.

Christ like World Worth caring Thing
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.

Man Pretends Understand Women
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
I hold Sufficiently justified Love
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Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God

Blessed People Leaders Destiny
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Woe to the statesman whose arguments for entering a war are not as convincing at its end as they were at the beginning,” Bismarck had cautioned.

Statesman Arguments Convincing End
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What you stay close to affects your character. Be very careful what and who you are close to.
Character Very careful Stay close Who
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Race is not particularly interesting to me. Power is. Who has power and who doesn't. Slavery interests me because it's an incredible violation that has not stopped. It's necessary to talk about that. Race is a diversion.

About Because Diversion Incredible
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The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.

Emily Experience Great Imagination
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Whatever I did, there was always someone around who was better qualified. They just didn't bother to do it.

Always Around Better Bother
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I missed a whole cycle of childhood, but I've never used it as a device for self-pity.

Childhood Cycle Device Missed
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Whenever I start a book, I swear it's going to be a short one. But then it's, 'Who was his grandfather? And how did he get there in the first place? And what kind of animals is he chasing?'

Animals Book Chasing Did
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To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.

Attainment Begin Enter Failure
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Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.
Expression Harmony Law Love
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He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.

Accomplish Achieve Attain Greatly
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They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.

Conquered Doubt Failure Fear
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A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.

Cannot Coerce Command Guidance
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The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth.

Brought Cannot Endure Errors
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The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a farmer who, having sown tares, asks God to bring forth for him a harvest of wheat.

Ask Bless Bring Deeds
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