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"I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got one immediately available to them, then they usually manage to manufacture it in their private lives."
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"We have a great sense of togetherness. It is our team spirit that has taken us to this World Cup."
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"Australians are geniuses with a good sense of humour."
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"One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them."
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"In the 1980s, there were occasions when it made sense to say, 'it is too difficult to maximize the likelihood function, and besides if we do, it will blow our model out of the water.'"
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"With a mini series you can give the story a proper sense of pacing, a proper sense of closure."
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"Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion."
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"In this tour around the world I was not interested in contemporary buildings because I had seen contemporary buildings actually until they came out of my ears in a sense."
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"It's crazy how you can get yourself in a mess sometimes and not even be able to think about it with any sense and yet not be able to think about anything else."
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"What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are."
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"The thing I don't like on television is when somebody does something that makes absolutely no sense just for the shock of it."
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"When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more novels under my belt."
Age
"I've always had difficulties with female characters."
Difficulty
"The longing we have to communicate cleanly and directly with people is always obstructed by qualifications and often with concern about how our messages will be received."
People
"If I had to put a name to it, I would wish that all my books were entertainments. I think the first thing you've got to do is grab the reader by the ear, and make him sit down and listen. Make him laugh, make him feel. We all want to be entertained at a very high level."
Books
"For better or worse, I've been involved in the description of political conflict."
Conflict
"Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage."
Marriage
"I think that where I've watched a movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it."
Interference
"By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way."
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"Americans believe that if you know something, you should do something about it."
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"I'm really a library man, or second-hand book man."
Man
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