"In order to get as much fame as one's father one has to much more able than he."
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"I consider myself fortunate that I've been able to find a character that people have responded to."
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"People are able to justify immense cruelty and say that it is something that is sanctioned by their faith."
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"Trust is one of the fundamentals of human existence. We need to be able to trust one another. A man who can no longer trust anyone will become sick."
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"Are you able to restore to those people the time when their freedom was denied them? If you have evidence for goodness sake produce it in a court of law. People with power have an incredible capacity for wanting to be able to retain that power and don't like scrutiny."
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"Naming a center after a person who is still alive can make it seem that an individual somehow on their own was able to accomplish what he accomplished."
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"Some people are able to use Bible as a means of opposing injustice, whereas others are able to find justification."
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"Well, I can't remember not being able to read. I was told I could read by myself very well at the age of three."
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"Only in Jesus are we able to pray, and with Him we also know that we shall be heard."
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"I respect anyone who's honest to themselves and able to bring that into their work in an entertaining fashion."
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"In the end, that's a blind alley - we have to get back to being able to think on our feet and react."
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"I don't know that you're able to measure your aggregate wisdom as you go through life. I can't say that I ever feel that I'm sitting on top of a growing mound of wisdom."
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"I did a movie with Clint Eastwood and I knew I wasn't going to be able to 'out-man' him."
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"I enjoy performing, always, but when you're taping a gig, you've got to blank out this mass apparatus of self-consciousness that's surrounding you, this invitation to drown in self-consciousness. Otherwise you just won't be able to do anything."
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"I've tried like hell to make bad movies good, and I can't. Maybe Marlon Brando has been able to do that at times. But even he has a hard time making 'The Appaloosa' a good movie."
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"It is hard to create a first-person narrator that can be a child and yet is able to take in enough information for the narrative to be legible to the reader."
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"I just always considered myself to be different and able to explore whatever I wanted."
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"Many writers can't make a living. So to be able to teach how to write is valuable to them. But I don't really know about its value to the student. I don't mean it's useless. But I wouldn't have wanted anyone to teach me how to write."
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"I feel that the English language will be able to carry the weight of my African experience. But it will have to be a new English, still in full communion with its ancestral home but altered to suit new African surroundings."
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"I have not been able to discover whether there exists a precise French equivalent for the common Anglo-American expression 'killing time.' It's a very crass and breezy expression, when you ponder it for a moment, considering that time, after all, is killing us."
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