"I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I'm a human being, too. And I'm on the side of human beings, rather than on the side of crocodiles."
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"The fact is that I have lived with the belief that power, any kind of power, was the one thing forbidden to poets. ... Power requires that the inner person never be unmasked. No, we poets have to go naked. And since this is so, it is better that we stay private people; a naked public person would be rather ridiculous, what?"
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"If funkytown was a trailerpark, this guy would be a double-wide."
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"I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I would be an artist."
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"It would be pretty impossible for us to separate our personal and professional lives, because so much of what we do comes from how we were raised and what we share and who we are."
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"Under my leadership the Liberal Democrats would not be making polite interjections from the sidelines, we would be hammering on the doors of power."
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"I never thought I was somebody that would be on the cover of magazines in fashions, wearing fashions. It's like not me. But that is what movie stardom entails."
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"The trouble is that the hockey stick graph become an icon and deniers reckoned if they could smash the icon, the whole concept of global warming would be destroyed with it."
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"I'm not a magician. I'am an alchemyst, a man of science, though perhaps not the science you would be familiar with."
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"I spend all my time trying to keep thoughts away and ignore them....But here you are, trying to remember your own life, writing your thoughts down so that you don't forget. I suddenly realized what it would be like not to know, not to remember."
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"Everything must not always be said, for that would be folly."
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"I would be depressed if I felt I could never eat the things that I love. I also don't want my girls to be obsessed about food."
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"I find that each job that I do, the thing that gets me there is when I'm not smarter than it, when I don't know instantly how that thing is made. Because if I do, then it's boring. Or it would be simple."
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"I would have nobody to control me; I would be absolute: and who but I? Now, he that is absolute can do what he likes; he that can do what he likes can take his pleasure; he that can take his pleasure can be content; and he that can be content has no more to desire. So the matter 's over; and come what will come, I am satisfied."
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"If I couldn't be a fiction writer, I would be a roller coaster designer for theme parks"
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"I'm sure it's not any wish of mine that I'm born with inclinations for better things. If I could be born again, and had the designing of myself, I'd be born the lowest and coarsest-minded person imaginable, so that I could find plenty of companionship, or I'd be born an idiot, which would be better still."
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"I had my first apartment when I was 16. I got good grades, so my friends would be able to come over to 'study.' We'd party, and they'd cheat off me. Everybody won!"
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"If you sat down and you wrote a script, you may write something that's way beyond what you've ever seen me do, but if you thought of me to do it, I would be flattered to be asked to do something other than be wise."
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"Think how hard physics would be if particles could think"
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"Thank God we don't serve God with our feelings, otherwise I don't know where I would be. - Pray for me."
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