"I'm grateful for a lot of things. One is not being a drunk wreck. Or losing all four limbs in some ridiculous East Village bus accident that I was so destined for."
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"I grew up in a dictatorship in East Africa."
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"(They) were responsible for spreading the Buddhist religion throughout India and East Asia."
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"I was born in a family of landless peasants, in Azinhaga, a small village in the province of Ribatejo, on the right bank of the Almonda River, around a hundred kilometres north-east of Lisbon."
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"I was born and raised in Los Angeles. I split my time between the West Coast and the East."
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"I saw the comics in the East Village Other, and they weren't superhero comics, they were all about hippies and all about things hippies were interested in. And there was one page in particular, a full page strip called "Gentle's Trip Out" signed "Panzika", and it was totally, totally psychedelic, and really, I don't know if it made any sense at all but it looked so great, and I thought, "This is what I want to do, this is my big influence," and it was."
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"I am not from east or west not up from the ground or out of the ocean my place is placeless a trace of the traceless I belong to the beloved"
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"For some reason and I don't know why, but I don't think that I'm funny in California. So I always want to do my movies east somewhere."
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"I believe in North, South, East, West, The seasons, life and death, geography. That which is provable, absolute and most of all, functional. I believe in things that can kill me."
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"Southward with fleet of ice Sailed the corsair Death; Wild and fast blew the blast, And the east-wind was his breath."
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"It was the East that should have sent us missionaries."
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"The delirium and horror of the East. The dusty catastrophe of Asia. Green only on the banner of the Prophet. Nothing grows here except mustaches."
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"This visit [to Singapore] is an occasion to mark the 50th anniversary our bilateral relationship with Singapore, which is one of our strongest and most reliable partners in South-east Asia."
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"I'm an east coaster, you know, I'm brought up in Toronto where it's very much like, kind of a miniature New York in that there's a subway and you're surrounded by people a lot and, you know, you bump into people and you have interactions and you communicate and la la la."
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"Oh, the little birds sang east, and the little birds sang west."
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"The response to my books from my East Coast friends has been wildly various, running the gamut from 'bad' to 'very bad.' (Is there another gamut?)"
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"The East is very mysterious to Westerners. Even post-Cold War, it's still an unknown entity."
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"I kind of grew up on the East Coast, lived in New York for a while, then moved to L.A. So I'm not a New Yorker at all, but I'm much happier in New York; I've always liked it better."
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"It's east to see without lookin' too far that not much is really sacred."
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"I think we've put ourselves in a position that if we can go into the Big East and compete at the level that we aspire to compete at, we'll get out of this what we want."
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