"When you're 18, 19, you want to live fast and leave a beautiful corpse behind."
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"The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want."
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"I can't say that I always want to get out of bed, you know."
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"I don't want to limit myself as an artist and only do a certain sound."
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"When I say to you, there is nobody like me, and there never was, that is a statement I want every woman to feel and make about themselves."
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"I want women -- and men -- to feel empowered by a deeper and more psychotic part of themselves. The part they're always trying desperately to hide. I want that to become something that they cherish."
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"I want you to walk out of here tonight not loving me more, but loving yourselves more."
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"Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner, you want to be like yourself. I want my fans to know it's okay."
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"Well, if someone has got all the money in the world, they'd still want love."
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"I would never want a book's autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books."
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"Come on now! How could you be me and want to be someone else?"
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"Some readers and commentators really want to scrape your insides out to make sense of your work. Others say, there's the work, it speaks for itself. Personally, I fall somewhere in the middle."
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"As you become known, the demands on you are such that you get less and less time to do the things you want to do. But if there are no demands, then that means nobody wants to read what you're doing anyway, so you're stuck."
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"That is not enough. Sport has been great for me, a great learning place that if you want to achieve you can, even if you are from the poorest part of Africa."
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"I am too much a moralist at heart, and really want to preach at people in some acceptable form, rather than entertain them."
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"I want you to take a red-hot bath as hot as you can bear it, and just relax your nerves. You can read in the tub if you wish."
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"This is what divorce is: taking things you no longer want from people you no longer love."
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"I don't employ Talleyrand when I want a thing done, but only when I want to have the appearance of wanting to do it."
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"Acting is a tough business, but if you really want to do it, you should go full force."
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"If we want to cultivate a true spirit of democracy we cannot afford to be intolerant. Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause."
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