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Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.
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I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you should write what you have to write, and if you're afraid it's going to upset someone, don't publish it.
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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.
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If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.
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You've got to stop dividing yourselves. You got to organize.
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If you are an Arabic-speaking, Greek-Orthodox going to a French school it makes you deeply sceptical if you have to listen to three different accounts of the Crusades - one from the Muslim side, one from the Greek side and one from the Catholic side.
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If you don't go to a dance, you can never be rejected, but you'll never get to dance, either.
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You have to keep hobbies in L.A. Otherwise, it's sad.
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You don't just wake up one morning and decide to become a singer-songwriter.
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I did a lot of little girl groups here and there just to get more comfortable on stage. When you're in girl groups, it's a lot different because if you mess up, there's someone on stage to back you up, and finally I got to a point where I knew I could do it on my own.
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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Skating is tough to pick up when you are a grown up.
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Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room.
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You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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I, for one, believe that partisanship should have nothing to do with the actions of Christ. You're either Christlike, or you're not.
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When I lived in Egypt, we always wore kaftans. I had cashmere kaftans from Halston. You put on a kaftan in your backyard, and it's like you're in Ibiza.
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Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.
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You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.
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If you listen to a Deadmau5 record or a Skrillex record, I really enjoy that stuff because, as aggressive sounding as the Skrillex records are, they're still musical, and that's why they have such a broad appeal.
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If you have something to say of any worth then people will listen to you.
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It's not enough to attend church and pray every Sunday; you have to act.
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Be kind to one another. You may need each other when you are older.
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I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.
