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What fiction offers us is an intimacy shorn of the messy contingencies of human existence - gender, race, class or age. Those moments of transcendence when we exclaim 'You know exactly what I mean!' depend for much of their force on the anonymous character of the intimacy between writer and reader. ”
Some people have human muses - mine is a city. I feel a startling ambivalence towards London, but for better or worse my work has come utterly to depend upon it. ”
In a way I feel completely frightened of dealing with other human beings at all, yet here I am sticking my face in front of a movie camera all the time. ”
Team and individual goals are great, but not understanding how we achieve those goals and the work it's going to take to achieve those goals, if you don't understand that process, then it doesn't matter. ”
Our party was built upon the beliefs of President Abraham Lincoln, who took the significant step to put us on the long path for equality. ”
Sentiments of hate toward one another still permeate today's world, and there is still much work to be done to heal the divisions of racial prejudice. ”
I love weird science. I learned in an article in 'National Geographic' that there are trillions of bacteria in our guts that help us digest food. These are non-human creatures. ”
Having a kid is hard to explain, but when you talk to another parent, you have mutual understanding of what that does to you as a person. ”
The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers. ”
History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice. ”