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When people start writing there is this idea that you have to get everything right first time, every sentence has to be perfect, every paragraph has to be perfect, every chapter has to be perfect, but what you're doing is not any kind of public show, until you're ready for it.

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• If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.

  

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• I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family.

  

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• Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.

  

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• She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.

  

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• Why did I elope with my husband after knowing him for only four months? I wish I could show people the picture of the two of us that night and have them feel what I felt. But it's just a picture. It can only capture how things looked, not how they felt.

  

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• There's no doubt in the world that directing makes you a better actor. Me, anyway. There's no doubt in the world that it makes me a more collaborative actor.

  

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• All my brothers and my dad at one point had dreadlocks.

  

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• Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

  

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• My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'

  

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• Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.

  

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• Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.

  

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• I would hate for my father to regret all his support that he's given me over the years and be embarrassed by anything I chose to do.

  

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• There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.

  

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• I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.

  

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• The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.

  

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• What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.

  

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• Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.

  

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• The world is a force not a presence.

  

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• I was a goth girl in high school. Perhaps the powdered white face and the black lipstick were not the most attractive. I felt fabulous at the time but looking back, uh, probably not the best idea.

  

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• I like my cheese, I like my milk in my coffee, and nobody's gonna tell me any different.

  

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• Science which is acquired unwillingly, soon disappears; that which is instilled into the mind in a pleasant and agreeable manner, is more lasting.

  

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• Let me tell you the truth. The truth is what is, and what should be is a fantasy. A terrible, terrible lie that someone gave to the people long ago.

  

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• When people start writing there is this idea that you have to get everything right first time, every sentence has to be perfect, every paragraph has to be perfect, every chapter has to be perfect, but what you're doing is not any kind of public show, until you're ready for it.

  

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