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Time is what the depressed and panicked lack.

Depressed Lack Panicked Time
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Sometimes it's all about the casting.

About Casting Sometimes
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In the world of acting, many are thin but few are talented.

Acting Few Many Talented
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It's rare to find a film that goes for broke and says, 'To hell with the consequences.'

Broke Consequences Film Find
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It's the same the world over. A Hollywood production comes to town, and the locals all turn movie crazy.

Crazy Hollywood Movie Over
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In Hollywood, 'under development' means 'all I have is the title.'

Development Hollywood Means Title
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I remember when a Coke came in a six-ounce bottle, and delicious it was. Now it comes in sizes so big that I question how the human bladder can deal with the intake.

Big Bladder Bottle Came
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Open-heart surgery is now part of a typical life experience for many people. Folks talk casually about 'having a stent put in,' as if they had their tires rotated.

About Casually Experience Folks
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Why is it that English, drama and music teachers are most often recalled as our mentors and inspirations? Maybe because artists are rarely members of the popular crowd.

Artists Because Crowd Drama
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A few actresses have all but set up shop as women of a certain age who attract younger lovers. I think of Susan Sarandon, Cameron Diaz and Isabelle Huppert.

Actress Age Attract Cameron
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We can't help identifying with the protagonist. It's coded in our movie-going DNA

DNA Help Identifying Our
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On this ancient and miraculous world, where such beautiful natural and living things have evolved, something has gone wrong when life itself is used as a manufacturing process.

Ancient Beautiful Evolved Gone
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It is quite possible for the vulgar to be funny, but to succeed, it must rise to a certain genius.
Certain Funny Genius Must
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I don't require movies to be about good people, and I don't reject screen violence.
About Good Movies People
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It is hard enough to be good at all, but to be good in comedy speaks for your character.

Character Comedy Enough Good
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Nothing ever seems straightforward in Venice, least of all its romances.

Ever Least Nothing Romances
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If you can act as if something is true, in a sense that makes it true.

Act Makes Sense Something
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I've never found kicks to the groin particularly funny, although recent work in the genre of the buddy movie suggests audience research must prove me wrong.

Although Audience Buddy Found
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There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom.

Boredom Death Existential Like
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Sometimes miraculous films come into being, made by people you've never heard of, starring unknown faces, blindsiding you with creative genius.

Being Come Creative Faces
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I like smart movies about smart people, and enjoy it when most of the facts are on the table and we can contemplate them together.

About Contemplate Enjoy Facts
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We think of first love as sweet and valuable, a blessed if hazardous condition.

Blessed Condition First Hazardous
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The key to change... is to let go of fear.

Change Fear Go Key
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Well, the first year I lost my voice I didn't mind so much because I was going to have a baby and I was distracted with him anyway, I didn't even think about it that much, well, OK, this is what's happening.

About Anyway Baby Because
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And I kind of said to myself if I get my voice back I'm not going to take back the old anxiety about it and just focus on the limitations. I'm really going to enjoy it.

About Anxiety Back Enjoy
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Being in the studio is like painting, you know, you can really take your time, and try different things, and kind of go deep into it.

Being Deep Different DifferentThings
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But there's nothing that gives me more thrill than when I'm writing and a couplet works. I find the right rhyme, or it's just perfect. There's nothing that exciting.

Exciting Find Gives Just
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Once your kids get older and get out of the house, it's not like it stops. They're on the phone with me every day; I'm intimately involved in their problems.

Day Every EveryDay Get
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Yeah, I was in the phase for the last ten years or so where every record I made I said OK, that's the last one, I don't want to record anymore, I don't want to do this any more, I don't want to have a public life.

Any Anymore Every Last
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For the first time in 23 years I'm enjoying the process of supporting it, of going out and doing shows, and doing the interviews, and doing everything.

Doing Enjoying Everything First
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My record label is treating me like I'm a new artist, which is exciting after all this time.
After Artist Exciting Label
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And I don't think that success is going to destroy me at this point in my life, like I used to think.

Destroy Going Life Like
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I love mixing up my genres.

Genres ILove Love Mixing
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It's a little dangerous for me to get outside myself and think about how I want people to see me.

About Dangerous Get How
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When my dad died a lot of songs came, and they're still coming.

Came Coming Dad Died
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The new record started out being about loss, but it's morphed into being about how relationships go on even though one person is not in a body anymore.

About Anymore Being Body
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If a relationship is founded on love it doesn't end.

End Founded Love Relationship
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I found it was really impossible for me to write songs when I couldn't sing.
Found Impossible Me Really
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I was down with Lucinda Williams and Mary Chapin-Carpenter. We did an acoustic tour, just the three of us, three chicks and three guitars.

Acoustic Chicks Did Down
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Because I was starting out in my 20's. I wanted to do it on my own. I didn't want to use my dad or have people say I was using him.

Because Dad Him MyOwn
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I needed to carve out my own place and find out what I was going to do.

Carve Find Going MyOwn
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It is the people who scream the loudest about America and Freedom who see to be the most intolerant for a differing point of view.

About America Freedom Intolerant
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I think it is wrong that we went against The U.N. and that we have alienated our allies and invaded a country that hasn't threatened us, that it is a pre-emptive strike.

Against Alienated Allies Country
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I have daughters who are writers and actors but no musicians.
Actor Daughters Musicians Who
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No, my step-daughter just opened a theatre school for children, I have another daughter who works in the record industry and another who is going back to collage and I have two little ones at home.

Another Back Children Collage
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War is idiocy. We live on a small, small planet, and what we do to others is what we do to ourselves.
Idiocy Live Others Ourselves
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I do not believe in terrorism, violence, destruction, murder, pre-emption, or War.

Believe Destruction Terrorism Violence
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I choose not to give energy to the emotions of revenge, hatred or the desire to subjugate.

Choose Desire Emotions Energy
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I am so sick of reading about another car bomb, another suicide bomber, another 10, 20, 30, 70, 100 people dead in a day, both Americans and Iraqis.

About Am American Another
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Every person's every action has an effect.

Action Effect Every Person
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