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I feel so terrible for the kids now. In London, even people in their forties can't afford to buy a house or have kids.
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I collect handkerchiefs. I know that's sort of old-timey, but my mom started the collection for me, and now I have a bunch. Basically, I have a myriad of beautiful handkerchiefs, and I carry them like a grandmother in my purse. And I opt for hankies in any situation.
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.
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I still wanted to see the family come back to life. And when that didn't transpire from the music, it kinda made me feel like I was bein' taken advantage of. I thought, when people heard '8 Diagrams,' they'd be like, 'Oh, Wu-Tang is a wrap now - they've lost it.' And I know that we didn't lose it.
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Finding out I was pregnant was one of the most joyous moments in my life. I will never forget it.
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I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.
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I love Bridget Fonda.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me.
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There are many reasons I feel at home in the U.K., but if I were asked to pinpoint the moment I knew I'd arrived, it might well be when I realised the British shared my love of fritters.
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Small companies need capital to invest, expand, and create jobs. And the economy needs a healthy small business community to bolster and sustain its recovery.
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
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You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.
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Many of us will be obsessed with one or another kind of secret or revelation, be it gossip about friends or ourselves, a fantasy about spies, or a worry about the most personal information now stored in data banks. But few of us think about secrets in general, or about the moral rights and wrongs of hiding or exposing them.
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There's an energy in an urban core that you just don't get anywhere else.
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I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.
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I took two fiction-writing courses in college and majored in literature. I felt that I had a knack though I wouldn't go so far as to call it a talent. But it scared me. I felt it was a childish thing wanting to write and that I would forget about it eventually.
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People who would never sneer at sci-fi and murder mysteries have no trouble damning the whole romance genre without reading one.
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You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know.
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I adopted two children, then I got eye disease and five rounds of surgery. I went blind in one eye, then the other eye, and that went on for three or four years. I got very enamored and involved with the theater and did a lot of plays.
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I feel so terrible for the kids now. In London, even people in their forties can't afford to buy a house or have kids.
