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"A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."

"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."

"This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance."

"Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad."

"People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom."
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"I wanted to do something far from my intellectual and physical home, so I went to live in Beijing for eight months and took Mandarin Chinese."

"I hate it when people use sex as a weapon against the people who are engaging in it. It's so hypocritical."

"I take the responsibility of choosing seriously because it becomes an indelible part of your body of work. Something has to sing to me."

"I hope that doing truthful portrayals of people in a variety of circumstances gives people a kind of subterranean link to those characters."

"Sometimes I feel limited by people's perceptions of what I can and cannot do, or what I do or don't look like."

"Acting is doing, because everything you say or do is some kind of an action, some kind of a verb. You're always connected to the other person through some kind of action."

"It's the relationships between people that are more important than the sort of far away fantasies of what the good life is, the world of supermodels and Bud ads."

"I assume that if people get to know me, they'll like me. If they don't, it's not my problem."
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