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I boxed in Golden Gloves at Oxford and still know how to throw a straight left jab.

Boxed Gloves Golden How
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I met Quincy Jones in Seattle. We were kids together... liked each other when we met and have been close ever since. He wasn't writing when we met - in fact, I more or less started him off to write; voicing, harmony, and stuff like that.

Been Close Each Ever
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I don't know about other writers, but for myself, to write I must be relatively quiet - it's very difficult to write with the telephone and the doorbell ringing and conversation going on; I'm not that good a writer to write through all that!

About Conversation Difficult Going
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I never thought of acting as a creative process. Christ, I used to go to the movies and see Brando talking like he was trying to sell shoes, and he was great. I thought anybody could do it. Then I tried it, and I got so uptight, I'm limited as to what I can do on film.

Acting Anybody Brando Christ
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I like being a Baha'i who has an out-there sense of humor. God gives us talents and faculties, and making people laugh is one of mine.

Being Faculties Gives God
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When I was thirty, and a long time after that, I felt like I had to leave home to do what I had to do. Now, it's just the opposite.

After Felt Had Home
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I always had to wait until something hit me, and I could write it. But when I would cut an album, to me it represented the time that I spent since the last one. Just the way I was looking at the world.

Album Always Could Cut
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I wish my memory weren't so bad. They tell me it's from all the football and boxing and the concussions that I got.

Bad Boxing Football Got
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Those 'Idol' shows are kind of scary to me. They wanted me to be on one of those panels one time, and I said it's the last thing in the world I'd ever want to do. I would hate to have to discourage somebody.

Discourage Ever Hate Idol
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I am grateful every morning I wake up. I've a big family full of kids, who laugh all the time and love each other.

Am Big Big Family Each
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I was never big or fast, but I got to play football and box.

Big Box Fast Football
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Everything that I write is sort of autobiographical, and I don't know that I'm getting better, but I'm certainly running out of time.

Autobiographical Better Certainly Everything
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To me, the best love songs work on two - maybe three - different levels, where you're talking about the person who you're right opposite, and all the people like that.

About Best Different Different Levels
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When I wrote 'Help Me Make It Through the Night,' I was on an oil platform out in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico and was just thinking of myself.

Gulf Help Just Make
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Just the words and melody - that's what moves your emotions.

Emotions Just Melody Moves
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I can interpret my own work honestly. And performing by myself seems to focus the attention in the right places.

Attention Focus Honestly I Can
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It's much better being an older father. You don't have to go prove to the world and to yourself that you're who you want to be, for better or worse.

Being Better Father Go
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What really makes me happy now is my home. I know that I have that to lose. But I don't see losing it. And I don't care if I never do another movie. And I don't care if I never get back on the road. I like to think that I'm gonna do that. But if I don't, I can live with that.

Another Back Care Don't Care
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I had fought for my independence and fought for my freedom to do as I chose.

Chose Fought Freedom Had
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I used to think that my songs were the best things that I would leave behind me. And I definitely think my kids are now. For starters, they're writing better songs than I was at their age.

Age Behind Best Better
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Havin' Dylan cover one of your songs is like being a playwright and having Shakespeare act in your play.

Act Being Cover Dylan
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I grew up listening to Hank Williams and Johnny Cash, so arriving in Nashville in the '60s was really exciting for me.

Arriving Cash Exciting Grew
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When I was stationed in Germany, Johnny Cash was already a legend over there because he'd done some shows, then gone off to some bar straight afterwards and played just for the troops. So he was a real hero.

Afterwards Bar Because Cash
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I used to want to be tall, and then I thought, 'If I were tall, then people would say I was pretty and not cute.' And then I realized that there are worse things than being called cute.

Being Cute People Pretty
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If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other people so much better. And that makes you so happy.

Better Flaws Happy Learn
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Broadway is such a diverse community. Everybody knows how I believe, and everyone believes, and it's not a big deal. But in Hollywood, if you talk about politics - especially if you're a Republican - or spirituality, it's just not something people want to hear about.

About Believe Believes Big
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I'm constantly learning, and that is the greatest gift of life in my opinion - to always be learning and growing.

Always Constantly Gift Greatest
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You've got to find ways to breathe while you're dancing so that when it comes time for you to stop and sing again, you have it. To prepare, I do a lot of aerobic activity. Many times at the gym, people will look at me because I'll be on the treadmill humming.

Activity Aerobic Again Because
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It's in God's hands.
God Is Hands
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Well, you know, people don't know me as a country artist and I am new to the genre. But that's how I grew up singing.

Am Artist Country Genre
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I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!

Believe Generous Guess Kind
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I just want to say, that if Jesus were alive, what would he be doing? Well, he would probably be accepting and loving people how they're made. And I always say this and it's really the truth. If being 4'11 was a sin, what would I do? Well, I could wear heels and I could add a wig.

Accepting Add Alive Always
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And I do - make no mistake, I am a Christian and I believe in God, and I don't believe he makes mistakes. So I don't believe that being gay is not a sin, and in fact it's how you're made.

Am Being Believe Christian
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Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.

Bar BarMitzvah First Mitzvah
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I am a Christian and I don't want there to be any confusion about what I believe or who I am.

About Am Any Believe
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I want to be a Christian like Christ - loving and accepting of other people.
Accepting Christ Christian Like
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I don't understand what the big deal is with gay marriage. Get over it, people.

Big Big Deal Deal Gay
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When I was a kid, there were these great comic books called 'Tales From The Crypt' and 'The Vault of Horror.' They were gruesome. I discovered them in the barbershop and thought they were fabulous.

Books Comic ComicBooks Discovered
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When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put those feelings into books.
Afraid Back Books Feelings
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Not everyone is going to like what you do or what you have to offer; however, if you can't see yourself doing anything else, and you have the drive and ambition, get the training and go for it.

Ambition Anything Anything Else Doing
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I don't want to sound pretentious, but I love art, I like to go to museums, and I like to read books.
Art Books Go Like
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I'm trying to learn, as I'm in my 40s, to embrace what I've been able to achieve and be proud of it. And I know there's roles that I will want to play before I die, but I'm still just taking one day at a time.

Able Achieve Been Before
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Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.

Amazing Been Everything Happened
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One thing I really want to do is - I spent ten years in New York doing theater before I moved to L.A. to do TV and film. I'd really like to go to back New York and do some theater.

Back Before Doing Film
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There's a difference between making fun of something and having fun with something.
Between Difference Fun Having
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The bonds we create in the household are the most important and lasting. Savor them; they're sacred.

Bonds Create Household Important
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Singing and dancing is not just for the cast of 'Glee'. We can wake up doing both and have it be a natural expression of who we are.

Both Cast Dancing Doing
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In every decade rock and roll starts to get very serious and navel gazing and kind of self serious and every once and a while it kind of needs a kick in the pants.

Decade Every Gazing Get
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My body has been making women laugh for the last 20 years and I'm happy to continue to oblige.
Been Body Continue Happy
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My whole thing is I just always wanted to be a working actor and I just wanted to stop waiting tables.

Actor Always Just Stop
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