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"But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I've failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don't get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me."
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"An evil life is a kind of death."
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"Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all."
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"As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death."
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"Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality."
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"We cannot conceive death as anything else than the afterlife because we cannot comprehend death unless we live."
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"It was octarine, the colour of magic. It was alive and glowing and vibrant and it was the undisputed pigment of the imagination, because wherever it appeared it was a sign that mere matter was a servant of the powers of the magical mind. It was enchantment itself.But Rincewind always thought it looked a sort of greenish-purple."
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"The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired."
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"For the wretched one night is like a thousand; for someone faring well death is just one more night."
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"Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy."
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"Death has a life which kills everybody's life."
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"I think the point about ActionAid is what it's asking people to do is engage with poor people in developing countries and understand what their lives are like and understand how the way we live our lives impacts on theirs."
People
"I've a problem with the word charity because I think that NGOs, as I prefer calling them, really do take the work of moral and social responsibilities that ought to be taken on by governments."
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"But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I've failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don't get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me."
Death
"A lot of people in my world - in the acting world - have either lost friends to Aids or live with HIV because its origin in our culture, in New York for instance, was in the gay community."
People
"Tell him I mind having to look pretty, that's what I mind, because it is so much more of an effort."
Effort
"Indeed - judicious, consistent parenting is a dream of mine. No judgements, learning space and listening carefully are my goals."
Parenting
"Children are the most wonderful audiences. What's struck me most is that that they watch it so silently, until the end when they shriek and shout and clap."
Audience
"The trouble is it's very difficult to pin-point the most important thing because Aids affects everyone in different levels of society, differently and you have to respond to it differently."
Society
"My appearance has changed a lot over the years, but it has far more to do with how I feel about being a woman."
Appearance
"My worst quality is impatience."
Quality
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