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"Oh, yes. I knew I was weird by the time I was four. I knew I wasn't like other boys. I knew I was more fearful. I didn't like the rough and tumble most boys were into. I knew I was a sissy."

"Time management is a big part of the director's job."

"To convince oneself that one has the right to live decently takes time."

"In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements."

"While there's time left, I want to do different kinds of things."
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"I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed."

"The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life."

"America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description."

"I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me."

"Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat."

"There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale."
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