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"What, I sometimes wonder, would it be like if I lived in a country where winter is a matter of a few chilly days and a few weeks' rain; where the sun is never far away, and the flowers bloom all year long?"
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"The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns."
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"When you want to make it clear to the rest of the world that you are not an imperialist, the best countries to have with you are Britain and Spain."
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"I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?"
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"The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How is the president?""
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"Sometimes I wonder if I got lulled into not wanting things because I grew up black in this country."
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"Each had defended his own country; the Germans Germany, the Frenchmen France; they had done their duty."
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"We do have a problem in this country. You can either make a movie and ignore that, or you can acknowledge it and say, this is the water that we're living in. You know this - the movie lives in this - it's centered around this particular problem, and I chose to acknowledge it."
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"I drive a lot. Just for pleasure. Sometimes I'll get in the Cadillac and drive around the city or the country, kind of trying to get lost basically. Y'know, just see where roads lead."
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"To wait for hours to buy a train ticket or to see a doctor is accepted as a normal way of doing things. Privacy is not a great preoccupation, and this is a very crowded country."
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"We will make every effort with utmost sincerity to achieve a peaceful reunification of the country."
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"What, I sometimes wonder, would it be like if I lived in a country where winter is a matter of a few chilly days and a few weeks' rain; where the sun is never far away, and the flowers bloom all year long?"
Country
"I have always found it difficult to wait for things - whether it was to see my father or sailor brother, Alan, again after their long sea trips, or the chance of a better job, or even new curtains."
Father
"If we fix a goal and work towards it, then we are never just passing time."
Time
"Naturally enough when I was a young dancer, I was terribly anxious to get ahead, and to get ahead quickly. I was impatient with all those older people who talked of the long grind to the top, who turned me down for jobs I knew I could do."
People
"No matter how much we love our family and friends, a part of us needs the occasional moment of solitude as a plant needs water. It is the inmost core of each of us that, that part which nobody can define but which we all recognize because it never changes."
Family
"But the delights of solitude don't only consist of dreaming. Next in enjoyment, I think, comes planning."
Enjoyment
"Everyone needs some time to themselves."
Time
"Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not."
Loneliness
"But the important thing about learning to wait, I feel sure, is to know what you are waiting for."
Learning
"But if we learn to think of it as anticipation, as learning, as growing, if we think of the time we spend waiting for the big things of life as an opportunity instead of a passing of time, what wonderful horizons open out!"
Life
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