"I can't relax when I'm watching a biographical drama, because it's so close to what it is that I do that I just long for more fiction - so that I can switch off."
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"The hard part is, of course, the proximity of death. The number has no meaning as long as you're fit and healthy. But you know that you only have so much time left and you don't know how much it is. It could be a very short time."
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"I wouldn't mind writing a long book which is going to occupy me for the rest of my life."
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"Evil is the vulgar lover who loves the body rather than the soul, inasmuch as he is not even stable, because he loves a thing which is in itself unstable, and therefore when the bloom of youth which he was desiring is over, he takes wing and flies away, in spite of all his words and promises; whereas the love of the noble disposition is life-long, for it becomes one with the everlasting."
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"It is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidences should spontaneously occur. If the number and variety of subjects to be wrought upon be infinite, it is all the more easy for fortune, with such an abundance of material, to effect this similarity of results."
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"I justified it in so many ways. I had a very, very long and difficult struggle with my sexuality."
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"I knew I wasn't attractive, and I was very happy about that. I didn't want to be attractive. I didn't want to attract. As long as no one wanted to be let in, I didn't have to shut anyone out."
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"I promise to keep you happy, safe, and in love - for as long as my heart wakes; and as much as you soul takes."
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"You've got to have some fun before games or you make the season too long. We don't start work until seven o'clock. If you're game-ready at three, it's not good for you. This is the only way I know how to do it."
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"Once I started getting multiple days off in a row, it was a long year for me. That had never happened, and everybody knew I didn't like it."
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"It may be only glory that we seek here, but I persuade myself that, as long as we remain here, that is right. Another glory awaits us in heaven and he who reaches there will not wish even to think of earthly fame."
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"Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it."
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"Everything that we experience every day leaves a long-lasting impression."
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"If you'll be my body guard, I can be your long lost pal."
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"This is a long-delayed, hard-won, and badly needed victory for millions of women."
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"The decathlon takes so long to learn that people who are good athletes don't want to go back to the beginning again."
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"We crave instant success these days. If you are a really good sprinter and long jumper, you don't want to spend two or three years on a whole new set of events. You're used to doing well and it's difficult to give that up."
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"Retiring was hard. I'd spent 15 years doing something I loved, but when you get older everything seems to go. When I started spending too long with the physio and the doctor, I knew it was time to call it a day. But I had no preparation for being retired and I didn't know what to do."
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"The only hope of a short war is to prepare for a long one."
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"Everything was blamed on Castro. Mudslides in California. The fact that you can't buy a decent tomato anymore. Was there an exceptionally high pollen count in Massapequa, Long Island, one day? It was Castro, exporting sneezes."
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