"It is with a kind of fear that I begin to write the history of my life."
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"I hate to say Napster kind of killed our business, but what can I tell ya?"
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"There are two kinds of secrets: those we keep from others and those we hide from ourselves."
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"People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of a person."
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"Woman, you see, is an object of such a kind that study it as much as you will, it is always quite new."
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"Kind? How boring that would be. I aspire to be wicked."
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"There are two kinds of paradoxes. They are not so much the good and the bad, nor even the true and the false. Rather they are the fruitful and the barren; the paradoxes which produce life and the paradoxes that merely announce death. Nearly all modern paradoxes merely announce death."
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"There is, therefore, about all complete conviction a kind of huge helplessness."
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"You can improve your talent, but your talent is a given, a mysterious constant. You must make it the best of its kind."
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"But we were doing plays and movies which I had nothing to do with other than being a producer, and I don't have that kind of interest or time any more."
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"I've always been the kind of woman who had a man in her life even when he was the wrong man."
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"I don't like to think of my readership as "fans," a word which has always suggested a kind of power relationship I'm uncomfortable with."
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"There's nothing more painful than something that's superficially upbeat but you can kind of tell behind it that there's a cynicism, or even a bitterness."
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"I love to travel to hear different kinds of music."
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"Peace is preferable to war. But it’s not an absolute value, and so we always ask, “What kind of peace?"
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"The kind of work that should be the main part of life is the kind of work you would want to do if you weren't being paid for it. It’s work that comes out of your own internal needs, interests and concerns."
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"What is "credibility"? It's a very familiar notion. It's basically the notion that is central to the Mafia. So suppose say the Godfather produces some kind of edict and says you're going to have to pay protection money."
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"Syria is descending into suicide. It's a horror story and getting worse and worse. There's no bright spot on the horizon. What will probably happen, if this continues, is that Syria will be partitioned into probably three regions; a Kurdish region - which is already forming - that could pull out and join in some fashion the semi-autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan, maybe with some kind of deal with Turkey."
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"What Wikileaks exposed is kind of superficial in a way."
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"Andorrans deserve much better than the rule of superstitious hysterics and extreme authoritarians, who try to instill obedience to their Holy Texts and chosen Divinities - and we should not fail to see that the terms are appropriate, if anything too kind."
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