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I thought I would, you know, go to college, get to law school, finish, and then get a job and work as a lawyer, but that proved to be not a good fit for me.

College Finish Fit Get
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You have to be practical. So every time I say, if you want to write a novel you have to be practical, people get bored. They are disappointed. They are expecting a more dynamic, creative, artistic thing to say. What I want to say is: you have to be practical.

Artistic Bored Creative Disappointed
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Team sports aren't my thing. I find it easier to pick something up if I can do it at my own speed. And you don't need a partner to go running, you don't need a particular place, like in tennis, just a pair of trainers.

Easier Find Go I Can
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Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked in filthy air all the time late into the night. I was very excited when I started making a living out of my writing, and I decided, 'I will live in nothing but an absolutely healthy way.'

Absolutely Air Bar Became
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Oh, I love labels, as long as they are numerous. I'm an American writer. I'm a Nigerian writer. I'm a Nigerian American writer. I'm an African writer. I'm a Yoruba writer. I'm an African American writer.

African African American American I Love
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Old-school hip hop, i.e., whatever was popular when you were nineteen, is great. Everything since then is intolerable.

Everything Great Hip Hip Hop
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Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Believe Great Heroes Heroic
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In a Transtromer poem, you inhabit space differently; a body becomes a thing, a mind floats, things have lives, and even non-things, even concepts, are alive.

Alive Becomes Body Concepts
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Because I'm an art historian, I have some experience of writing that comes out of close attention. That's what really art history is. You're looking at something very closely, and you try to write in a meticulous way about it.

About Art Art History Attention
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The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.

Opportunity Ready Secret Success
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I'm not trying to be a poet on Twitter; I'm trying to be aware of the fact that a very simple sentence, well written, can have a very moving effect without that person knowing why. There's a deep genetic part of you that somehow, even without your permission, recognizes good language when it arrives.

Aware Deep Effect Even
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You must work very hard to become a natural golfer.
Become Golfer Hard Must
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To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

Conscious Facts Great Ignorant
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If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory.

Clever Should Very You
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Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.

Age Agree Chastity Filth
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Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.

Above Admire Embrace Key
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You can't build a great building on a weak foundation. You must have a solid foundation if you're going to have a strong superstructure.

Build Building Foundation Going
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Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations.

Criticism Destroy Entire Everyone
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If you are too busy in your church activities to take care of your family, then perhaps we had better find something else for you to do.

Activities Better Busy Care
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Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.

Think Yourselves Others Privilege
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Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.
Often Say Knave Fool
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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.

Succeed World Stupid Well-mannered
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I don't have a nanny. I have a chef, and I have my assistant, and that's it. I do it myself. You know, those hours with your child are really important ones, even if it's just the two of you, being quiet in the car together.

Assistant Being BeingQuiet Car
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My opinion is that more languages you speak, better it is, but when you come to America, you speak English.
America Better Come English
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You cannot change a person. Let them be. Let them be the way they are.

Cannot Change Person Them
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You know, to marry a man like Donald, you need to know who you are. You need to know who you are, and you need to be very strong and smart.

Donald Know Like Man
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I think the mistake some people make is they try to change the man they love after they get married. You cannot change a person.

After Cannot Change Get
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One thing I love most about New York is the variety of amazing foods you can eat. My all-time favorite is the Chicken Parmigianino at Jean Georges.
About All-Time Amazing Chicken
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After living and working in Milan and Paris, I arrived in New York City 20 years ago, and I saw both the joys and the hardships of daily life. On July 28, 2006, I was very proud to become a citizen of the United States - the greatest privilege on planet Earth.

After Arrived Become Both
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He will never, ever, give up. And, most importantly, he will never, ever, let you down. Donald is, and always has been, an amazing leader. Now, he will go to work for you.

Always Amazing Been Donald
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Everyone wants change. Donald is the only one that can deliver it. We should not be satisfied with stagnation.

Change Deliver Donald Everyone
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You judge a society by how it treats its citizens. We must do our best to ensure that every child can live in comfort and security, with the best possible education.

Best Child Citizens Comfort
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You follow the law. Every few months, you need to fly back to Europe and stamp your visa. After a few visas, I applied for a green card and got it in 2001. After the green card, I applied for citizenship. And it was a long process.

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I like certain pieces monogrammed because it gives my closet and home warmth - it's just something that you could really feel comfortable with. It's yours; it's something personal. I do it for fun.

Because Certain Closet Comfortable
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I love my closet, and I always buy things that I love 100 percent. I'm very organized, and I like everything sorted by colors, even the shoes. It's important to know exactly where everything is when you walk into the closet.

Always Buy Closet Colors
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I find inspiration for my line of jewelry from traveling and from my lifestyle. I have three collections: New York, Palm Beach, and Paris.

Beach Collections Find Inspiration
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My husband doesn't text... It's always phone calls. I like that because you hear the voice the old-fashioned way.

Always Because Calls Hear
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I take people the way they are. You could work all your life to change them, and they never will. What's the point? They need to be who they are.

AllYourLife Change Could Life
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I think is important to give a child room to make mistakes in order to learn. Mistakes build wings so later in life they can fly and go on their own. Let them fall once in awhile... Be their friend and parent as well. When they're in trouble, they will come to you first. Don't try to change their opinion.

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I don't think know if anything's going to translate anywhere. You're making a movie, you hope it's going to be funny, you can't think about how it's going to go over.

About Anything Anywhere Funny
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We all know that education unlocks the door of opportunity for the young.

Door Education Know Opportunity
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I enjoy the work I do in comedies. It's a valid test of your creative abilities.

Ability Comedies Creative Enjoy
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You don't need coffee. Nobody needs coffee. You can get along without it.

Along Coffee Get Need
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We live in a world that is filled with filth and sleaze, a world that reeks of evil. You cannot afford that filthy poison to touch you. Stay away from it. Avoid it.

Afford Avoid Away Cannot
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Choose your friends carefully. It is they who will lead you in one direction or the other.

Carefully Choose Direction Friends
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Did you ever think that your body is holy? You are a child of God. Your body is His creation.

Body Child Creation Did
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My heart reaches out to you missionaries. You simply cannot do it alone and do it well. You must have the help of others. That power to help lies within each of us.

Alone Cannot Each Heart
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When you are young, do not get involved in steady dating. When you reach an age where you think of marriage, then is the time to become so involved.

Age Become Dating Get
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I love New York. I was sad, depressed and incredibly moved by our fellow countrymen and what they've done. I wanted to give people a chance to see something funny, have a distraction.

Chance Countrymen Depressed Distraction
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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
Everything Geometry May Perfectly
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