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The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.
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A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
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When we read fiction, we want to get outside of ourselves and are able to see from a perspective we haven't seen through before. That can be very powerful.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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I'm not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it.
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To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.
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If you're governor of a state, and you have nothing to say when the president attacks the people that you represent, you are complicit.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.
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I think things can surprise you. I mean, I loved Instagram from the minute it started, but I think it surprised a lot of people how quickly it got huge.
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The living nightmare for a red state NASCAR driver would be a gay French driver.
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.
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I know that it isn't just violence against women, it's how do we support ourselves and our families, how do we deal with health care for ourselves and our families? It's a bigger picture.
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Ember Moon is extremely talented, and Daria, from Tough Enough, she's very unique and cool. The fans are going to get behind her. As for Asuka, she is phenomenal.
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Private education can give you confidence, which is marvellous; a sense of entitlement isn't.
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A potato can grow quite easily on a very small plot of land. With molecular manufacturing, we'll be able to have distributed manufacturing, which will permit manufacturing at the site using technologies that are low-cost and easily available.
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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.
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We are made in the image of God, and we need to put Spirit back into the equation when we want to improve our physical and our mental health.
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A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.
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Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue?
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World music is about taking things from different places and bringing them together - which is great.
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The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.
