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Sometimes I think that when p...

Sometimes I think that when people become famous, there's a public perception that they are not human beings any more. They don't have feelings; they don't get hurt; you can act and say as you like about them.

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Doris Lessing really doesn't ...

Doris Lessing really doesn't care what the critics say. In fact, she orders her publishers not to send her the reviews and gets cross with them if they do because she doesn't want that in her head. She's going where she's going, and that's where she wants to go.

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The thing that always attract...

The thing that always attracted me to New York was the sense of being in a place where a lot of people had a lot of stories not unlike mine. Everybody comes from somewhere else. Everyone's got a Polish grandmother, some kind of metamorphosis in their family circumstances. That's a very big thing - the experience of not living where you started.

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The answer to religion is not...

The answer to religion is not no religion, but another way of thinking of it. Another way of being in it.

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There was a series called 'Ga...

There was a series called 'Game of Thrones' which was very popular here in the United States, a post-Tolkien kind of thing. It was garbage, yet very addictive garbage - because there's lots of violence, all the women take their clothes off all the time, and it's kind of fun.

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It is often said by religious...

It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.

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Out-of-step intellectuals lik...

Out-of-step intellectuals like Noam Chomsky and the deceased Edward Said have often been dismissed as crazy extremists, 'anti-American,' and in Mr. Said's case even, absurdly, as apologists for Palestinian 'terrorism.'

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Airport security exists to gu...

Airport security exists to guard us against terrorist attacks.

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I do think that there is such...

I do think that there is such a thing as human nature, and that the things that we have in common are perhaps greater than the things that divide us.

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When I'm writing books, somet...

When I'm writing books, something weird happens; and the result is the books contain a large amount of what you could call 'supernaturalism.' As a writer, I find I need that to explain the world I'm writing about.

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I think that a lot of us, whe...

I think that a lot of us, whether we are religious or not - there are no words to express some things except religious words. For instance, 'soul.'

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A thing that happens to migra...

A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self.

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I can walk into a bookshop an...

I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.

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When I'm writing a book, sent...

When I'm writing a book, sentence by sentence, I'm not thinking theoretically. I'm just trying to work out the story from inside the characters I've got.

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We all dream things into bein...

We all dream things into being; you imagine yourself having a child, and then you have a child. An inventor will think of something in his mind and then make it actual. So things are often passing from the imagined realm into the real world.

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I used to write a monthly col...

I used to write a monthly column for the 'New York Times' syndicate. But I stopped because I found it really hard to have one extreme opinion a month. I don't know how these columnists have two or three ideas a week; I was having difficulty having 12 things to say a year.

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I did a lot of student acting...

I did a lot of student acting when I was young.

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Sometimes you find your voice...

Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.

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The question I'm always askin...

The question I'm always asking myself is: are we masters or victims? Do we make history, or does history make us? Do we shape the world, or are we just shaped by it? The question of do we have agency in our lives or whether we are just passive victims of events is, I think, a great question, and one that I have always tried to ask.

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I'm a world expert on superhe...

I'm a world expert on superhero comics. I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....