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Whenever there were parties, I wasn't invited because I began to be like that character. In a way, that contributed to the success of the performance. ↗

— F. Murray Abraham

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I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more difficult is to identify with someone you don't see, who's very far away, who's a different color, who eats a different kind of food. When you begin to do that then literature is really performing its wonders. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

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Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it's far removed from your situation. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

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When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

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I never took a grant or borrowed a penny from anybody. It was partially because I didn't really know how to do that, but secondly, my pride never would have allowed me to. In the beginning it was about doing it the right way, on the merits of the music. ↗

— Bryan Adams

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We began intercepting Japanese radio transmissions, which indicated the two forces were very close to each other. We found out later that we were moving in opposite directions and passed each other by 32 miles. ↗

— Jack Adams

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In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. ↗

— Douglas Adams

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For the impious act begets more after it, like to the parent stock. ↗

— Aeschylus

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This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun. ↗

— Mitch Albom

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You think that the heads of state only have serious conversations, but they actually often begin really with the weather or, 'I really like your tie.' ↗

— Madeleine Albright

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