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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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I'm not used to interviews. People don't generally interview waitresses.
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You can say we're trying too hard or that we didn't try hard enough, but we're not trying at all; we're just doing what we do.
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Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence.
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When I was a kid, I wanted to be a footballer and racing driver, like all kids.
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People talk about method actors, meaning someone that's prepared very, very well, or whatever they mean when they talk about it. But the right method is whatever works for you. And what works for me on any given day is going to be different.
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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.
