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Fiction is fun because you get to steal an identity and try to make it authentic.


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There is your car and the open road, the fabled lure of random adventure. You stand at the verge, and you could become anything.



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A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking.



The happiest I have ever been is in the life that I led with my wife and kids.

The happiest I have ever been is in the life that I led with my wife and kids.



I knew I wanted to play around with genre-esque imagery, and the identity theft stuff came in the middle, when I was figuring out how the characters were connected to those images.

I knew I wanted to play around with genre-esque imagery, and the identity theft stuff came in the middle, when I was figuring out how the characters were connected to those images.



I think we're always in some ways writing to the teachers who gave us early love.

I think we're always in some ways writing to the teachers who gave us early love.



Maybe love, like suffering, is relative.

Maybe love, like suffering, is relative.



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Identity issues are hardwired into the way I think about character - it's almost as if I can't get away from them even if I want to.



I've never been able to sleep very much, even when I was a kid. I used to hate being forced to lay in bed in the darkness, and just shifting in bed and staring at the shadows.

I've never been able to sleep very much, even when I was a kid. I used to hate being forced to lay in bed in the darkness, and just shifting in bed and staring at the shadows.



I like to sleep about four or five really solid hours at night, and then sometimes take a nap in the afternoon or early evening after dinner. I love naps.

I like to sleep about four or five really solid hours at night, and then sometimes take a nap in the afternoon or early evening after dinner. I love naps.



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Even when our death is imminent, we carry the image of ourselves moving forward, alive, into the future.





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I know how to win. I have been winning. I do win. Even in sports.



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To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn.



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You'll get unsociable people whatever the nationality, colour, race or creed. I guess the British abroad have probably got the worst record of anyone.



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Basically, I feel to spend the rest of my life doing retreat.




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