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Read, but not to remember everything. Read because that 1% that you remember has the potential to change your life.
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There are a helluva lot more of us who care about our environment in the world than we realize. We're the majority, and we can do something about that
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I've been wanting to make a movie about the war in Sierra Leone, specifically, for more than 15 years.
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'Obamacare,' as it's been called, is far too reaching. It's overreaching. It needs to have a lot of it repealed.
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All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual.
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Love is not a feeling; it's a sensation. Drinking water when you're thirsty is a sensation, not a feeling. Being in nature or swimming in the sea is a sensation, not a feeling. Lying down when you're tired is sensational, not a feeling, although you may say it feels good. Feeling is an emotional interpretation of experience and these sensations don't need interpretation; they are just good or right. Making physical love rightly is a sensation, not a feeling. So is the love of God. The same goes for joy and beauty; both are sensational.'
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My father works for Xerox and fixes those gigantic copy machines that are about 10 feet wide.
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I think technique can be taught but I think the only way to learn to write is to read, and I see writing and reading as completely related. One almost couldn't exist without the other.
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I don't think I came to music. I think music came to me - or was already embedded when I came into this sphere, this realm, this Earth.
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When it comes to your career, you must always try and allow the positive aspects of your character to dictate what happens to you. Be led by your talent, not by your self-loathing; those other things you just have to manage.
