"I set out to try to help my fellow man and to do what little I could to make the world a better place."
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"I am studying ancient civilizations, trying to find what happened to them, finding out why they went into a decline, why they died."
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"If there is an authoritarian structure at St. Hill it has been brought into being by the government itself. St. Hill is trying to correct itself. It doesn't know what it's trying to correct because nobody has told it what to correct."
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"Everybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint on my face. Sometimes I try really hard to take it all off. But inevitably what's underneath is still not a straight edge. And I don't think it ever will be."
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"So many will try to destroy me. So many, over and over, coming in periods of greatness. But in this period, I cannot be broken: GAGAKLEIN."
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"I'm always trying to create something that the fans won't expect."
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"I try to write from a really honest place when I write pop music and carry the song into a more deep and more symbolic visual"
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"I try not to punish the audience by making them listen to too much acoustic guitar."
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"Noomi [Rapace] felt fresh. And she's passionate and ambitious in all the right ways. She's a tour de force. Every time I was trying to have a discussion with the actors, she'd be pulling out a blade out from underneath her gypsy skirt and menace someone saying, "Maybe I should slit your throat.""
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"She didn't say a work, and I gave up trying, because you couldn't hear either one of us over the shattering noise of hearts breaking and the looming shadow of the last word, the one we refused to say."
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"I was lost before I found her in my dreams, and she found me that day in the rain. I knew it seemed like I was always the one trying to save Lena, but the truth was she had saved me, and I wasn't ready for her to stop now."
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"I couldn't sit by and watch them try to take her down. Not her."
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"At least no one's trying to kill anyone. Give them about fifteen minutes"
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"I try to deliver because I don't believe that people are deliverin' the same quality of albums."
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"I wake up every day trying to give something back to you that you can rock to and be proud of."
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"I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and my work."
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"I've often met people who are terrified, you know, in a straight jacket of their own making because they'd rather do anything that fail. They don't want to try for fear of failing."
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"Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve. I was determined to try. I was determined to try because, frankly, my life was such a mess at this point, what - what was the worst that could happen? Everyone turn me down? Big deal."
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"Oh, I'm so glad we know what it's called, that's a great help," snarled Ron, leaning back, trying to stop the plant from curling around his neck."
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"When Filch wasn't guarding the scene of the crime, he was skulking red-eyed through the corridors, lunging out at unsuspecting students and trying to put them in detention for things like "breathing loudly" and "looking happy."
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