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Well, you know, you're not going to have 86 percent of Congress voted out of office.
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There are days when I literally have to eat 17 plates of food - it's intense. It's about moderation. You just need a few bites to get the gist of a dish.
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It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really don't have anything. It's hard to build a community around parking lots and subdivisions.
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The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.
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When Bangladesh refused to renew my passport, I used U.N. travel documents. You can't disown your country.
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You can cage the singer but not the song.
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I've never told you the story of Alice in Wonderland, have I?
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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Attraction is what happens between you. It's not universal. And it's not conventional. And thank God for that.
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You do not need to have a 2,400-page bill come out of Washington, D.C.
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I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half the editor said, 'Your stories are the most talked about stories in the 'Observer'; you should have your own column.'
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If you put Willem Dafoe, Liam Neeson and James Woods in a room together, there wouldn't be room for anyone else.
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The first calculators tended to sell for $400 or $500. Today, you can get a pretty good one for 4 or $5.
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When you are already in Detroit, you don't have to take a bus to get there.
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That's always the trick with the sequels, is how much do you repeat from the first one. Because we all get bummed out when you go see a sequel and it's beat for beat.
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There are a lot of other people that really play a significant role in helping you become an Olympian.
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Whenever you're scared of something, don't let that define you. We all feel it, but step up.
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Gloves make you so much more delicate.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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You could say that all novels are spy novels and all novelists are spy masters.
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You can be still and still moving. Content even in your discontent.
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There's so many great songs already written, it's kind of really wonderful you don't have to write your own.
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I have to tell you, TV is an incredibly difficult medium. The most challenging show to do is the hour long dramedy. It's a very tricky format.
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As you get older, you see the world at a different angle, maybe more cynically, but I just bury my anger.
