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One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
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I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.
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As a child, I loved fairy tales because the story, the what-comes-next, is paramount. As an adult, I'm fascinated by their logic and illogic.
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I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.
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Fortune and love favor the brave.
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I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.
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The idea was never for me to be a career bureaucrat or career technocrat; it was more about where I could implement ideas and reform programs.
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After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.
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A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.
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Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws.
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I know how to wrap my turban a little better now. In the beginning, it was a little weird.
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At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It's really your essence and your values that are important.
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Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.
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I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.
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In theatre, there's no time for a proper meal.
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There's a play that Chekhov wrote called 'Uncle Vanya,' and I when I was in school, I played Sonya, and sometimes people ask me if there was ever a role I could play again, that's definitely the role I would play again: Sonya in 'Uncle Vanya.'
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A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
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Finding my way into a novel is always half the battle.
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I blurbed a nice book, not at all like my book 'The Big Oyster,' called 'The Essential Oyster.' I blurbed a pretty good book about meat called 'Meathooked.'
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I think everyone at school experiences some form of bullying. With kids at school, it can be anything - it can be your shoes or the wrong bag or anything. If you are big like I am, you are always going to be a target. So I decided at school to make myself an even bigger target, if you like: to make myself as big as I could be.
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I admire honesty more than any other trait.
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Doing nothing is very hard to do... you never know when you're finished.
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I've always been pretty serious and introspective.
