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I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.

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A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.
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Friendship Moments Myself Past Surprise
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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Appearance Chance Missing Television
All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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Missing Myself World
Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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Audience Drink Writing
The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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Misunderstanding Quote Reaction Violence
The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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Natural President Rise Suspicion
Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Anxiety Night Youth
Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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Myself Novel Reading Writing
Fifty percent of people won’t vote, and fifty percent don’t read newspapers. I hope it’s the same fifty percent.
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Hope Myself People Reading Vote
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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Death Friendship Myself Success
Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
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Active Literature Lose Time Virtue World Writing
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal
As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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Myself Reading
I am a novelist turned temporary adventurer, and I chose to write television, movies and plays for much the same reason that Henry Morgan selected the Spanish Main for his peculiar – and not dissimilar – sphere of operations.
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Adventure Movie Myself Novel Operation Play Sphere Temporary
As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.
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Age Perfection Progression Rule Television
We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
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Artist Discover Emotion Important Known World

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