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"In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter."
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"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."
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"I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet."
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"A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think."
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"The First Amendment is not without limits."
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"Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does."
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"Australian SF book publishing has undergone a boom recently, and sometimes it's easier for new writers to sell a book to a local publisher first, which then makes a US edition more likely."
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"I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer."
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"Jim wanted to be known as a poet, first and foremost."
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"I learned to speak first, and then to sign. I have never really known what it was like to hear, so I can't compare hearing aids to normal hearing."
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"But I don't have a very good track record with royalty. My dress fell off in front of Prince Charles at the Prince's Trust, so I'm just living up to my reputation."
Trust

"I had friends but I was spending a great deal of my time alone and for me that was vital because there's an awful lot you learn about yourself when you're alone."
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"For the last 12 years, I've felt really privileged to be living such a normal life. It's so a part of who I am."
Life

"I think probably the only thing that is around in these songs is that I was really lonely when I wrote a lot of them. But it was really by my own choosing because I was devoting myself to songwriting and dancing and I wasn't really going out and seeing people."
People

"My first Top of the Pops I didn't want to do. I was terrified. I'd never done television before. Seeing the video afterwards was like watching myself die."
First

"It's not important to me that people understand me."
People

"What I've tended to do is to use my own experiences to get into someone else's mind, like in Wuthering Heights."
Mind

"I think quotes are very dangerous things."
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"I've read a couple of things that I was sort of close to having a nervous breakdown. But I don't think I was. I was very, very tired. It was a really difficult time."
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"Clothes are such a strong part of who a human being is."
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