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"If we understand the past, we are more likely to recognise what is happening around us."
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"Whether you need to remember the past or not, It changes nothing but gives the best choice for the future that makes You always to remember your past."
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"Hope doesn't require a massive chain where heavy links of logic hold it together. A thin wire will do...just strong enough to get us through the night until the winds die down."
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"Past is aipsom if you learned from the past."
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"The only thing to prevent what's past is to put a stop to it before it happens."
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"I have been wounded like this since about half past eight this morning and I will tell you how it happened."
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"Well, I wasn't going to tell anyone, but I've been seeing this really sweet guy for the past few weeks."
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"In the past, I'd sort of know before Ozzy sang something, what he was going to sing. I'd know what sort of way a melody was going to go 'cause of the way he'd approach it."
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"What is past is prologue."
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"I've had a pilot every single year that didn't sell for the past four years, that'll smack you in the back of the head. I had a really good one last year; I wouldn't have done the play in New York if I had gotten that one."
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"What you don't want to do is to hang on to the aging superstar past his prime and take resources away you can otherwise use to build a better overall team."
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"The language has got to be fully alive - I can't bear dull, flaccid writing myself and I don't see why any reader should put up with it."
Language
"I hope that readers will tear through my books because they can't stop themselves - and then, maybe, read them again and find new things there."
Hope
"I can remember being in my pram: children stayed in their prams much longer then than they do now. A big bouncy pram with black covers and a hood with metal clips that could trap your fingers. I was looking up at my sister who was sitting on the pram seat, with her back to me."
Family
"A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into."
Writing
"It is a violation which has obsessed the tyrants of the twentieth century. They do not want simply to kill their opponents, but to liquidate them, to deny that they have ever existed."
Politics
"Those who try to obliterate the past are injuring the present."
Past
"I have learned so much from working with other poets, travelling and reading with them, spending days discussing poems in progress. There is the sense that we are all, as writers, part of something which is more powerful than any of us."
Reading
"I would like people to come into my Dreamworld and then choose to stay."
People
"Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive."
Books
"I was always influenced by language."
Language
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