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Are there other people who, when watching a documentary set in a prison, secretly think, as I have, 'Wish I had all that time to read'?

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• My way of relaxing was always doing the opposite and playing the drums, but I need to be able to actually chill.

  

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• Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.

  

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• God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.

  

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• I want to have an impact on my son.

  

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• Roman's wife Sharon Tate had been murdered by Charles Manson the year before, but Roman had been through so much leaving the Warsaw ghetto that he was very strong and private.

  

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• Some people have a misunderstanding about the Army. Some people think, 'Hey, you're in the military, and everything is super-hierarchical, and you're in an environment that is intolerable of criticism, and people don't want frank assessments.' I think the opposite is the case.

  

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• Democratic accountability means that governments must be popularly accepted, with citizens empowered to replace corrupt or incompetent rulers.

  

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• IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.

  

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• It's not what you wear it's how you wear it, is what I say.

  

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• About a year after leaving drama school or a year and a half - and I was working solidly ever since leaving drama school - I picked up 'Game of Thrones.'

  

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• I've always considered myself to look like a rather plain-and-exhausted bluestocking, so it's rather odd to read Tweets commenting on my appearance.

  

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• My friends told me that it's the hardest thing to separate the personal life from their work.

  

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• There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.

  

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• We're sad about some of the losses of members of great seniority and distinction in the Congress, and some very new members, who will no longer be serving with us.

  

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• When I wake up every morning, I thank God for the new day.

  

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• In the United States, large corporations control some members of Congress. All this does is delay the corporation's funeral at our expense.

  

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• If we want to end a culture rampant with harassment, we must listen to the adult women who are speaking out courageously. We must also make room for girls to speak: If we listened, we'd find that many middle schoolers are trying to tell us, 'Me too.'

  

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• Are there other people who, when watching a documentary set in a prison, secretly think, as I have, 'Wish I had all that time to read'?

  

  Zadie Smith
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