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I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.
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I cannot believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war and no one will win the next.
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I claim Dickens as a mentor. He's my teacher. He's one of my driving forces.
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I complain to one of my fellow servers that I don't understand how she can go so long without food. Well, I don't understand how you can go so long without a cigarette, she responds in a tone of reproach. Because work is what you do for others; smoking is what you do for yourself.
Source: Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America (2001) Ch. 1: Serving in Florida (p. 31) -
I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill.
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I consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself. Even though we are not sure of the links, Iraq was one of the countries that did not lower its flags in mourning on 9/11.
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I could see where you could have the exchange of tactical weapons against troupes in the field without it bringing either one of the major powers to pushing the button.
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I could sing you a thousand and one doo-wop songs. I love the simplicity in that music. It's not super-poetic, it's just from the heart.
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I could write six songs in one day with everything that's going on.
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I created a fitness club with five friends. We have weekly check-ins and a reward system - and group penalties if one of us slacks off.
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I dare say that if I knew him I should not be his friend at all. It is a very dangerous thing to know one's friends.
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I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.
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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.
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I detest the man who hides one thing in the depth of his heart and speaks forth another.
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I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes. I had one thousand and sixty.
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I didn't always want to act. My passion was writing, and it still is one of my primary passions to this day, but it wasn't until high school when I started acting in plays that it became a thought of something I might want to do. And when I applied to colleges, at NYU, I was able to study both writing and acting.
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I didn't know if it would be a success-ful one, or what the stages would be, but I always saw myself as a lifetime musician and songwriter.
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I didn't raise Todd to be a writer, but he happened to be one anyway.
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I didn't want to let women down. One of the stereotypes I see breaking is the idea of aging and older women not being beautiful.
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I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art.
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