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Sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to nurture it in solitude and to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads.
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Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me. I have accepted fear as a part of life--specifically the fear of change, the fear of the unknown and I have gone ahead despite the pounding in my heart that says turn back, turn back, you'll die if you venture too far.
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Love is everything it's cracked up to beIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
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I know some good marriages -- marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other, being good to each other.
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Friends LOVE misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too luck or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change. I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back
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Advice is what you ask for when you already know the answer but wish you didn't.
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow talent to the dark place where it leads.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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If you don't risk anything, you risk even more
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.
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If you don't risk anything you risk even more.
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't
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I can live without it all -- love with its blood pump, sex with its messy hungers, men with their peacock strutting, their silly sexual baggage, their wet tongues in my ear.
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Take your life in your own hands and what happens A terrible thing no one to blame.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy gets the Catholic Church. America gets Hollywood.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.
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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it
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