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We have real cliched ideas of what prison life is like. It is not a happy place. It's a desperate, sad situation.
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I had a serious childhood illness - sort of like spinal meningitis - that led to a three-month hospitalization. Afterward, I couldn't be insured because of a pre-existing condition.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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The media can allege corruption, but if I do the same against the media, I am gagging freedom of expression.
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People are patronizing the theatres with renewed enthusiasm - there is an entire picnic-like attitude when families go out to see movies, which is a very good sign. They want to see larger-than-life characters on the big screen and not just watch movies on television or on DVDs.
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Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
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If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.
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I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that.
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To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
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The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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Mankind: A quality of life upgrade is available to each and every one of you. It should give you a quality of life upgrade, which means no drugs, no alcohol, no fast food - unless, of course, it's a mallard.
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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
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My first languages are German and Spanish because I was brought up by a Spanish mother and a German father, so I always spoke both languages at home. I'm very thankful that I was brought up in a bilingual house.
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Seeing the bigger picture opens your eyes to what is the truth.
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School boards can be a steppingstone to higher forms of political leadership.
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Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.
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Touring is what you make it. I like to organise as much as possible myself.
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I always say: To be well dressed you must be well naked.
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It's better to keep your past and present loves separate.
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I like people. That's me. I like people on the street, and I also happen to like other people who have power. But I'll go to a party and realise I haven't spoken to anybody who can do anything for me.
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There is no sound so terrible as a man's sorrow for his own death.
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Marriage is the only known example of the happy meeting of the immovable object and the irresistible force.
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We have real cliched ideas of what prison life is like. It is not a happy place. It's a desperate, sad situation.
