"Because I'm English, I try not to make any purely American references, because I want to limit how much I'm pretending to be American."
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"I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others."
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"As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. They do not feel any enmity against me as an individual, nor I against them. They are only 'doing their duty'"
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"A scrupulous writer in every sentence that he writes will ask himself. . . What am I trying to say? What words will express it?...And he probably asks himself. . . Could I put it more shortly? But you are not obliged to go to all this trouble. You can shirk it by simply throwing open your mind and letting the ready-made phrases come crowding in. They will construct your sentences for you"
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"I did try very hard to tell the whole truth without violating my literary instincts."
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"Start trying to work out who deserves what, and before long you'll spend the rest of your days weeping for each and every person in the world."
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"I wrote six pilots, none of which ever got picked up. When you stop trying, it then it falls in your lap."
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"I can see a scene in my head, and when I try to get it down in words on paper, the words are clunky; the scene is not coming across right. So frustrating. And there are days where it keeps flowing. Open the floodgates, and there it is. Pages and pages coming. Where the hell does this all come from? I don't know."
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"I heard of a man who had a razor made of Valyrian steel. He cut his head off trying to shave."
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"Let's note, that in what I consider the most disgraceful performance abroad by an American official in my lifetime - something not exampled since Jane Fonda sat on the anti-aircraft gun in Hanoi to be photographed - Mr. McDermott said in effect, not in effect, he said it, we should take Saddam Hussein at his word and not take the President at his word. He said the United States is simply trying to provoke. I mean, why Saddam Hussein doesn't pay commercial time for that advertisement for his policy, I do not know."
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"It is not greedy to enjoy a good dinner, any more than it is to enjoy a good concert. But I do think there is something greedy about trying to enjoy the dinner and the concert at the same time."
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"I did try to found a little heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy."
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"One of the most fascinating aspects of politician-watching is trying to determine to what extent any politician believes what he says."
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"I am a correctionist. If something is wrong in society, it must be fixed. At least one should try to fix it."
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"Instead of finding alternative energy sources, we try to subjugate entire regions of the world. People do not understand that by doing this, the United States are going to absolute ruin."
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"I am a born novelist, which does not happen all that often. There are people who try to write for a certain time, then they become Ministers of Culture under de Gaulle, and they begin living their own fictions."
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"I try to make puzzles range all the way from easy to hard, and to leave many open at once."
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"I had been working on some mechanical issues before I got called up. When I got called up I was focused on trying to be mechanically correct instead of enjoying the moment and competing like I had always done which is probably the main reason to why I wasn't very successful in my first start."
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"That's the job of the National Security Council is to try to be a disciplined clearinghouse, gathering the views from across multiple agencies, teeing up decisions that make sense for the president."
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"Honestly, when I got to Hollywood I was trying to sell my songs."
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