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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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Apartment stacked to the ceiling with newspapers, we call him crazy. If a woman has a trailer house full of cats, we call her nuts. But when people pathologically hoard so much cash that they impoverish the entire nation, we put them on the cover of Fortune magazine and pretend that they are role models.
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I didn't have to look like Jughead to have him be my favorite character.
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It may indeed be doubted, whether butcher's meat is any where a necessary of life. Grain and other vegetables, with the help of milk, cheese, and butter, or oil, where butter is not to be had, it is known from experience, can, without any butcher's meat, afford the most plentiful, the most wholesome, the most nourishing, and the most invigorating diet.
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I've done a lot of dumb things in my life.
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Through all the Employments of Life Each Neighbour abuses his Brother;Whore and Rogue they call Husband and Wife:All Professions be-rogue one another:The Priest calls the Lawyer a Cheat,The Lawyer be-knaves the Divine:And the Statesman, because he's so great, Thinks his Trade as honest as mine.
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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.
