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It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity, to reduce them to objects of pity. This has never been clearer than in the view of Africa from the American media, in which we are shown poverty and conflicts without any context.
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Never cry over spilt milk, because it may have been poisoned.


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I've been very lucky in the characters I've chosen. Up until last year I was a nobody. I did jobs I booked because I needed to put food in my mouth.
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I can cry all day long - that's easy for me.


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The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.
Friedrich Schiller
I started rapping since, like, 14. But I've been obsessed with rap from when I was 11. I heard 'Baby Don't Cry,' I'll never forget.
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It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.


Gregory Nunn
I love writing and can't imagine not being able to do it. I want an easy life and if it had been difficult I wouldn't be doing it. I do admire writers who do it even though it costs them.
Iain Banks
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I'm a poor artist. Through brute force, I brought myself up to mediocre. I've never taken a writing class, but I can write okay.
Scott Adams
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You can watch someone on-stage cry and cry - but in the audience you feel nothing. It's easy to become indulgent. For me, what's important is the story first.
Laura Linney
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Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us.
Dan Quayle
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I never been a hater of these other cats, who never really had nothing, being successful. That's not my problem.
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Since writing JAWS, I've been lucky enough to do close to forty television shows about wildlife in the oceans, and yes, I have been attacked by sea creatures once in a while.
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I think that's the most important job of a novelist - to bring authority to their writing.


Maria Semple
I've been lucky enough to travel widely. When you're based in Europe, it's very easy to go to Madrid or Budapest for the weekend. I also lived in Italy for ten years and now live in Ireland.
Laurie Graham
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Social service has always been my priority, and I want to help the poor.


Girija Vyas
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I studied the short story as part of my creative writing course at university but then set off as a novelist. Generally, there is a sense that even if you want to write short stories, you need to do a novel first.
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It was always easy for me. I was born very rich and lucky.


Yahoo Serious
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I was lucky enough to have it all. To be successful in business, to have children, to raise them on my own, and to travel and live my life. It was a lot of work, but it's a privilege to have been able to do it.
Diane von Furstenberg
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I never met a poor person who wanted to soak the rich; they want to get rich.


Jack Kemp
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