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Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.
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We should work to guarantee that there is a midwife or health worker by every woman's side during childbirth.
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Suffering is overated.
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Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.
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I'd punch that ***** in the balls before I'd cup him for comfort.
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The new industries are brainy industries and so-called knowledge workers tend to like to be near other people who are the same. Think of the City of Hollywood. People cluster. This means you have winning regions, such as London and Cambridge, and losing regions. The people who want to be top lawyers in Sunderland are hoovered up by London.
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When I was in college, I lost my scholarship one year. I had enough money for tuition, but not room and board. So I camped in the hills.
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I have the same attitude with work - I like to go to work, I like to work really hard I, like to give everything my all, I like to try things that are new, you know.
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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.
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The racial conversation in the States is so multifaceted and multilayered. Obviously it's not always a positive conversation, but it's just so much more detailed than it was when I was growing up in South Africa.
