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I was a fugitive, taking risks with my life. I chose that. I chose to be a volunteer to go to Guatemala when they were having their earthquake, to help people with a team of doctors.

Chose Doctors Earthquake Fugitive
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You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way.

Achieve Anything Getting Someone
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One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is not a distinction at all.

Dialogue Distinction Prove Tasks
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The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

Truly New Criticism Art
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Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.

Method Writing Buy Ways
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To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

Able Aware Become Fright
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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

Hope Knowing Love Only
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It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us.

Given Hope Only Sake
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It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

Good Temptations Vices Without
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The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.

Being Hasty Human Leap
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The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.

First Deadly Invaluable Whole
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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
Art Pleasure Poetry Truth
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I've had a lot of people tell me they watched 'Old Dogs' with their kids and had a good time.
Dogs Good Good Time Had
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Comedy can be a cathartic way to deal with personal trauma.

Cathartic Comedy Deal Personal
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My mother's idea of natural childbirth was giving birth without makeup. She was hyper-positive - the world is a wonderful place, rainbows and unicorns. If you said anything contrary to her, you were basically exiled.

Anything Basically Birth Childbirth
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With film roles, it just has to be a character either I haven't done before, or a role with somebody really interesting or with an interesting person or group of people.

Before Character Done Either
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With my wife I don't get no respect. I made a toast on her birthday to 'the best woman a man ever had.' The waiter joined me.

Best Birthday Ever Get
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Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.

Acting Actor Acts Deals
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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
Days Laughter Most Wasted
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I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.

Better Body Like More
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I found there was only one way to look thin: hang out with fat people.
Fat Found Hang Look
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Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.
Being Draw Men Most
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
Became Horrible Insane Intervals
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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
Dream See Seem Within
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The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

Bent Come Content Dreams
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My marriage is on the rocks again, yeah, my wife just broke up with her boyfriend.
Again Boyfriend Broke Her
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My father carries around the picture of the kid who came with his wallet.

Around Came Carries Father
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I was so ugly my mother used to feed me with a sling shot.

Feed Me Mother Shot
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In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.

Absolutely Bold Criticism Foe
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

Been Me Passion Poetry
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

Exquisite Horror Impress Mind
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The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.
Admire Critic Fire Generous
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Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.

Answers Bible Covers Face
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From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Alive Die He Life
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Dangerous Dreadful Integrity Knowledge
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Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.

Virtuous Person Mean Mind
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No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

Being Better Chance Commonly
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When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

Conversation Does Had He
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No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

Autumn Flowers Fruits He
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

Converse Desire He Man
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I don't mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I've saved all year.

Back Daylight Going Hour
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I grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection.

About Beyond Dialogue Drama
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I love writing but hate starting. The page is awfully white, and it says, 'You may have fooled some of the people some of the time, but those days are over, giftless. I'm not your agent, and I'm not your mommy; I'm a white piece of paper. You wanna dance with me?' and I really, really don't. I'll go peaceable-like.

Agent Dance Days Fooled
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The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.

Annoying Generally Going People
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I don't have a great instrument. I don't have the kind of ungodly control over my voice and body that great actors have. And I've worked with enough great actors to know that I'm not one.

Actor Body Control Enough
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When a movie is being rolled out, the studio publicists and all our individual publicists get together and come up with bullet points and talking points - 'Make sure you stay away from this,' and 'Don't say that quite that way, because that quote can be taken out of context,' and that kind of thing.

Away Because Being Bullet
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If I am writing a movie and I am stuck, I can call the studio and tell them it's delayed. You can't do that with television - you have air dates to meet.

Air Am Call Dates
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I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim?

Been Claim How Make
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The properties of people and the properties of character have almost nothing to do with each other. They really don't. I know it seems like they do because we look alike, but people don't speak in dialogue. Their lives don't unfold in a series of scenes that form a narrative arc.

Alike Almost Almost Nothing Arc
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I fell off my pink cloud with a thud.

Cloud Fell Off Pink
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