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At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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I think if you come from a history of persecution you have to develop a sense of humour.
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When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.
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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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I learned how to read in second grade, and I entered a summer contest at my local library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If you read more books than anybody else, you got your Polaroid up on the bulletin board, and I did.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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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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When you're an actor, you're mollycoddled, and you're treated with kid gloves. Everyone is like, 'Can I get you some water?' or 'Can I put on your slippers?'
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If you have something to say of any worth then people will listen to you.
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I'm not hiding anything. What you see is what you get.
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My idea of artistry has always been 'try everything until you find out what works.'
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Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it.
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Please know that being 80 is not a scary thing. When you're 80, your life is much freer.
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One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.
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You can observe a lot by just watching.
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If you look at any normal organization, the CEO is the person with the highest E.Q. The person with the highest IQ is often in the back room running the financials or the operations. That's topsy turvy.
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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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If you are explaining, you are losing.
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It's not enough to attend church and pray every Sunday; you have to act.
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To change what you get, you must change who you are.
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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 give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.
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I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.
