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If you write a letter of resignation or something with an agenda, you're simply using a pen to record what you have thought out. In a poem, the pen is more like a flashlight, a Geiger counter, or one of those metal detectors that people walk around beaches with.
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If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets in the way of writing your own story.
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If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremendous corruptibility for the fiction writer because you're dealing mainly with sex and violence. These remain the basic themes, they're the basic themes of Shakespeare whether you like it or not.
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If you write satire, the guilty pleasure these days is that there's just so much material about. On the other hand, if you have a family it can be depressing.
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If you'd have said Evangelical in 1957, most people wouldn't know what you were talking about. And then, they'd be against it.
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If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.
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If you're a champion, you have to have it in your heart.
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If you're a citizen of the State of New York, your kid has as much a right as another kid to an education, and the best education. The money should be distributed equally to all.
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If you're a coach, you've got to have a lot of confidence in what you're doing. Your egos are so large that you know it all anyway if you're a coach.
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If you're a parent, you know how incredibly good it feels when one of your children spontaneously thanks you for something. God is our Father, and he, too, is moved when we express our thanksgiving.
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If you're a pioneer and you come up with something that can change the world and you turn round and say 'I'm not going to share this idea with anyone,' then you only impact the few and not the many.
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If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.
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If you're a producer, you always spend too much money because you want that shot - and you're willing to spend a bundle to get it.
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If you're a single man and you happen to be in this business, you're deemed a player. But I don't see myself as a ladies' man.
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If you're a technology investor, and you decide that you're also going to be a healthcare investor or a green-tech investor, that doesn't usually work out that well. There are reasons why people make their careers studying these things and becoming experts.
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If you're a writer, you just keep following the path - keep going deeper and deeper into the things that interest you.
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If you're against globalisation, it doesn't achieve much by sort of bombing the head offices of Shell or Nestle. You unsettle people much more by blowing up an Oxfam shop because people can't understand the motive.
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If you're an adult and you choose not to believe in science, fine, but please don't prevent your children from learning about it and letting them draw their own conclusions.
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If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.
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