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"I grew up with a lot of boys. I probably have a lot of testosterone for a woman."

"When I wrote The Virgin Suicides, I gave myself very strict rules about the narrative voice: the boys would only be able to report what they had seen or found or what had been told to them."

"The fact of the matter is that everybody treats me pretty much as one of the boys, which I take as a great compliment."

"Meccano gives boys the secrets of the world's wonderful engineering structures."

"Little girls and boys, barefooted, walked up and down between the endless rows of spindles, reaching thin little hands into the machinery to repair snapped threads."

"Corey feldman and I did sneak into the screening room one day during Lost Boys."
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"I recognise that Socialism has ended its purely theoretical course, and that the hour to construct has come."

"Judge men less by the labels they wear than by their persistent labour for sure if slow progress."

"I must firmly adhere to the views I have held and practice, that Socialism to succeed must be practical, tolerant, cohesive and consciously compromising with Progressive forces running, if not so far, in parallel lines towards its own goal."

"In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who only advocate the unobtainable because the immediately possible is beyond their moral courage, administrative ability, and their political prescience."

"I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects."

"For the moment and for some time great events have been denied me, forward action not come my way."
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