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I've always had problems with guys!

Always Guys Had Problems
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Memoir is a difficult literary form to pull off when dealing with discrete and poignant moments in a life, even harder when seeking to narrate over 80 years of existence.

Dealing Difficult Even Existence
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Africa wants the world to acknowledge that through fair partnerships with other members of the global community, we ourselves are capable of unprecedented growth.

Acknowledge Africa Capable Community
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I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.

Am Being Far God
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If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Cannot Hear Means Paint
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In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

Again Discouragement Drawing Everything
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My first real kiss came when I was 10, and it was in an acting class. I had to do a scene from a movie where someone gets kissed under a tree, and I did not want to do it! But my acting partner wanted me to feel comfortable, so he bought a picnic basket with all these snacks. He made such an effort - and it was cute.

Acting Acting Class Basket Bought
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The second I met Zac, I thought he was a really cool guy. It's hard not to have chemistry with someone who is so attractive.

Attractive Chemistry Cool Cool Guy
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The sweetest thing a guy said is that I look pretty with or without makeup.

Guy Look Makeup Pretty Said
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Touring is tough. You're almost in a haze because you don't really know where you are half the time: You're in a hotel room one moment, and the next thing you know, you're onstage performing for 60,000 people, then you're back on an airplane. It's very hectic and I couldn't do it without my family.

Airplane Almost Back Because
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There is no blue without yellow and without orange.

Blue Orange Without Yellow
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For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

Any Certainty Dream Know
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Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, 'Be still, and know that I am God.' But they are still just vehicles. The Buddha called his teaching a raft: You don't need to carry it around with you after you've crossed the river.

Stillness Teaching Vehicles Around
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.

Arises Awareness Head Identified
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The real truths of life are never entirely new to you or to anybody because there is a level deep down within you where you already know all the things, all those spiritual truths that you read or hear, and then recognize them. I say 'recognize' because you're not... it's not new.

Anybody Because Deep Down
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When you take your attention into the present moment, a certain alertness arises. You become more conscious of what's around you, but also, strangely, a sense of presence that is both within and without.

Arises Around Attention Become
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Some people awaken spiritually without ever coming into contact with any meditation technique or any spiritual teaching. They may awaken simply because they can't stand the suffering anymore.

Awaken Because Coming Contact
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That is the real spiritual awakening, when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who you thought you were. So, the person is still there, but one could almost say that something more powerful shines through the person.

Awakening Deeper Emerges Person
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Jesus said, 'The Kingdom of Heaven is within you.' I think if he lived nowadays, instead of 'kingdom,' he would have said, 'dimension.' And 'heaven' refers to a sense of vastness or spaciousness.

Dimension Heaven Instead Jesus
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You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection - you cannot cope with the future.

Cope Future Mind Moment
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D.C. is in my blood, my diction, my sensibility and style. I am, though, in love with a city that cannot fully love me back.

Am Back Blood Cannot
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Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.

Another Prejudice Reduce Anymore
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I've had great writing teachers and mentors and great success with my first book.
Book First Great Great Success
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Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

Being Body Deep Dependent
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I'm a black man in the United States, and there's no two ways about that. I have a shared common experience with other black men, and through that, there's an automatic understanding.

About Automatic Black Common
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In general, Barack Hussein Obama brings us face to face with the discomfort our society feels with this idea of difference.

Barack Brings Difference Discomfort
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I love and really respect strong women. I'm obsessed with Scarlett Johansson and Drew Barrymore and Penelope Cruz. They are just really incredibly strong-willed, intelligent females in the industry.

Females I Love Incredibly Industry
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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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Sometimes you just wanna go out, see your action movie, be done with it, come home. You know, and, like, you see 'The Matrix' or whatever, you see whatever film it is, and you're like, 'Oh cool,' whatever.

Action Action Movie Come Cool
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There are books that are made for you to sit and puzzle over and spend time with.

Books Made Over Puzzle
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Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.

Consistent Else General Idea
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'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.

Describe Else Idea Mad
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I'm obsessed with 'Scandal.' I love, love, love it. I've gotten to meet all of the cast at this point, and they're all so, so nice.

Cast Gotten I Love Love
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I like to build a character, trying to stretch my imagination as far to the walls of my brain as I can to come up with something that feels truthful and feels real - as close to the skin as I can get it.

Brain Build Character Close
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I used to be a huge fan of 'Lockup' on MSNBC, and that certainly has helped with my understanding of the world.
Certainly Fan Helped Huge
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I was pursuing the arts with theater in school, and I was doing after-school activities, but not in any real movement towards a professional career.

Activities After-School Any Arts
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My finding of myself as an artist, which I think in itself helped me to find just who I am and how I want to express myself, is entirely - in conjunction, of course, with my family, particularly my mom - founded on teachers.

Am Artist Course Entirely
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Working with Brando was fun. It was like a tennis match. We played unbelievably well together.

Brando Fun Like Match
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It's important to have people around who love themselves, are true to themselves, who have their own hobbies and their world doesn't revolve around Hollywood. I can always go to my family with any doubts or questions I may have.

Always Any Around Doubts
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And I highly recommend for all the women in the world, even if they're 71, you can never take for granted that he loves you. It's always good to flirt with him. It's a great sport.

Always Even Flirt Good
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I became obsessed with all these women who die never feeling they did anything extraordinary with their lives.

Anything Became Did Die
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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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It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Longer Problems Smart Stay
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Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

Daily Deep Exists Knows
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There's a lot about the character. It doesn't always happen, but there are some characters you really create a relationship with, almost as if they were your friend. And you never get into their heads again or think like them.

About Again Almost Always
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It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

Experience Fear Mixed Mystery
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You know the funny thing, I don't get along with rich people. I get along with the middle class and the poor people better than I get along with the rich people.

Along Better Class Funny
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I've always said, 'If you need Viagra, you're probably with the wrong girl.'

Always Girl Need Said
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I didn't think marriage worked. I thought everybody who was married was secretly miserable - that it was something they just put up with for their children.

Children Everybody Just Marriage
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