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The arts are valuable because they increase our sense of what it means to be human, not because of any specific skill or ability they confer.
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Games don't cause racism. But the real-time chat makes nasty comments hard to moderate and easy to spread.
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My childhood was full of shocks and alarums, and I had to work a long time to make a life that pleases me.
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It's absolutely delightful to get dressed up for a lovely evening, but when it goes from being a fun thing to being a chore, and a chore that men don't have to do, then we need to think about it differently.
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I like things that take you by the hand and say, 'You think you know about this - you think you understand it - but there's so much that you don't.'
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No one should ever feel obliged to speak or to put themselves out publicly online, but I do think it's a good thing to do. The more of us who are women, making our work and just going 'Here I am, here's my work,' the easier it gets for everybody. It's a good thing to do.
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Sometimes you feel like the people who invest in hate are winning. Then you just want to talk about love and what it really means to love yourself.
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I love books. I want to read them, and I want to own them so they're always available to be reread.
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The thing about having true fans, it seems, is that they remain loyal to their idea of what the work meant to them. And that might make them more exacting than the toughest studio executive or publishing boss.
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As someone who went to school in the '70s and '80s, I can't say that I noticed much of a 'medals for all' culture myself.
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Competitive sports may be where exercise becomes 'fun' for children who are good at it, but for those who are less talented, it is where exercise becomes not only physically demanding but also emotionally painful and socially humiliating.
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The hilarity or brilliance of a forwarded link is inversely proportional to the number of people it's sent to.
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I hate to be one of those people who forwards links to 'hilarious pictures' or 'brilliant games' to half their contacts database.
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I've been a comics fan since my first hit of those gateway drawings: Judy, Asterix, and the TV cartoon 'Spider-Man and his Amazing Friend' - which naturally led me to Spider-Man comics.
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More choice doesn't make us happy, and we understand that no one has infinite choices about how to live life.
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I wish that positions of power dependent on education were as open to abused children, poor children, working-class children as they are to the children of the rich and successful. I really wish that were true.
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I wish it were true that every child had access to an education that helped them reach their full potential.
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We all know that the desire for perfection can get in the way of authenticity and enjoyment; it's the same with games. There's a completist part to many of us that can't rest until we reach the perfect 100% finish point.
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I've only got anywhere with Minecraft by getting my friends to explain it.
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Expect to be disgusted by your own early work. If writing is your vocation, if you hope that it might be your salvation, push on through the disgust until you find one true sentence, a few words that say more than you expected, something you didn't know until you set it down.
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We urgently need to address the assumption bound up in our employment laws and custody arrangements that women are the 'natural child carers' and men don't really want much to do with their children.
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When a marriage founders, this may well be cause for tremendous sadness, but it's not a failure of spirit or character. People change, their goals and dreams alter, their ideas of themselves grow, or they just meet someone they like better.
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Twitter's strength - and its weakness - is that it makes it extremely easy to share every passing thought with everyone on your friends list.
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While 'Iron Man' is tremendous fun, it's another reminder of the pressure on all of us to make ourselves increasingly perfect and a little less human. And that is something it is important to resist.
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As a gamer, I can't think of anything more annoying for everyone concerned than playing games in a shared living room.
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Just as readers often turn into writers, novel-writers often become novel-reviewers.
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The value of the arts cannot be measured by its ability to preserve life but rather to enhance existence.
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I got my first library card, for Hendon Library in north London, when I was two years old.
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I think some people's brains have more of a natural bent towards God than others.
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For years, I looked down on my mother for shopping at Asda, and now I feel very ashamed of it.
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When I was 19, I wrote a novel, which was not very good, but I finished it.
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I've always been a reader of science fiction, and I have loved a lot of feminist science fiction.
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You can't write a thing that is hermetically sealed; there has to be a way for the audience to get in and participate. I think that's a massively valuable discipline for any artist.
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I was reading the Bible in Hebrew from a very young age, so that'll shape ideas about how words can move the world.
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My parents are both intellectuals and readers; my mother would take me to the library every few days from before I was one year old.
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I feel powerful when I'm onstage talking to an audience. I like communicating; it feels like my calling in the world. Knowing what you're meant to be doing with your life is pretty bloody powerful.
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The demands of having to be 'masculine' are as damaging to men as the demands of having to be 'feminine' are to women. I wish we could all agree just to wash it all away. Begin again.
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I suppose the idea about all Orthodox religion is that it's a kind of submission, obedience.
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There's some really good stuff in the way I was brought up. There's some really rubbish stuff as well.
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I grew up an Orthodox Jew, and now I'm not an Orthodox Jew. So I have sympathy for people who lose their faith.
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The worst things that ever happened to me were before I was 20. It has been slow, hard-won improvement since then.
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After the novel was published, I came to feel that I couldn't call myself Orthodox anymore. It's so patriarchal, anti-women, anti-gay. There was something about writing 'Disobedience'... it felt like I had put it all in the book. I had done my best by it, recorded what it meant for me. I felt I was done.
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