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"Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living."
Life
"I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz."
War
"There are some good rules and there are some lousy rules."
Rules
"If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect."
Court
"Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt."
Contempt
"The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay."
Work
"This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement."
Cancer
"I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right."
Intelligence
"I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks."
Country
"Occasionally it does hit me, the words on a page. And I still love doing that, as I have for the last 60 years."
Love
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"In 1993 my birthday present was a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame."
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Personal Development
"I'm most comfortable in my birthday suit."
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Personal Development
"I trained to be a priest - started to. I went to seminary school when I was 11. I wanted to be a priest, but when they told me I could never have sex, not even on my birthday, I changed my mind."
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"I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too."
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"On my birthday, I was in Milan for the collections."
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"I have had fans make me the big picture collages of the photo books; I have had fans send me birthday cakes... sing to me on my voicemail. I have had fans flash me. I have had older fans give me their bras and underwear onstage."
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"Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same."
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"I had a birthday one night on a farm we were shooting on. I walked into the tent, and there were 150 people waiting for me, all wearing masks of my face."
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"Well, I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give myself a special birthday present for my fortieth birthday, and I was living in San Francisco at the time and I started attending some of the concerts and then simply dropping hints."
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"With my wife I don't get no respect. I made a toast on her birthday to 'the best woman a man ever had.' The waiter joined me."
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