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"Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred."
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"They baffle me where they go with the storylines... we used to be a Golden Globe winning show."
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"Were this not Texas, were there not a state where there were no protections at all and where the law was clear on that, I think CBS and Mary Mapes and Dan Rather and all of us had a very good chance of winning. So this is an ongoing battle about an issue of principle."
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"The only way to get back the confidence is to play and win matches. You can practise as much as you like, but you need confidence that comes from playing and winning matches."
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"It has something to do with the facts and the law and who the judges are. So I think lawyers sometimes exaggerate their role in winning and losing. Lawyers do have a role, and a major role, but they're not the only players in this game."
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"The biggest thrill wasn't in winning on Sunday but in meeting the payroll on Monday."
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"Losing feels worse than winning feels good."
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"It hasn't been hard getting nominated, but winning it is another thing. The competition is tough."
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"Now that I have retired, and even though I wanted to play more, I can always look back and say that at least I won Wimbledon; also, winning the tournament in Rotterdam in 1995."
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"As a citizen of the great city of Chicago, I find it impossible to root against the White Sox. The White Sox organization has been much more consistent, in my lifetime at least, at putting a winning ballclub on the field."
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"Being Captain of the Dodgers meant representing an organization committed to winning and trying to keep it going. We could have won every year if the breaks had gone right."
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"I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature."
Money
"I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised."
Thought
"The criminal is trying to solve his immediate problems."
Problems
"It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat."
Man
"The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level."
Time
"You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions."
Answers
"Insults are the business of the court."
Business
"The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider Arab literature also. We deserve that recognition."
People
"I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening."
Government
"It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts."
Cultural
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