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This is my own little rock theory: In my mind, Nirvana slayed the hair bands. They shot the top off the poodles.

Theory Slayed Shot Poodles
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Voting is completely important. People in America think democracy is a given. I think of it as an ecosystem, and what gets in the way of it is politicians and apathy.

Ecosystem Politicians Apathy Voting
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Miles Davis would have this lineup of all these amazing musicians and one day would just say, 'We're done.' After tons of great records and tickets sold, he said, 'Now I'm going to grow my hair out and play my horn through a wah-wah pedal.' Rather than play it safe, he went on.

Rather Play Horn Through
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Living entirely off writing is a precarious existence and money is always short, bit with careful management and planning I found I could keep my head and those of my family, through God's grace, above water.

Water Grace God Family
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Writers simply have to write, and not worry so much about what people think, because public opinion is such a difficult horse to ride.

Ride Horse Difficult Public
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The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I'd done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn't read it.

African Approve Book Bride
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When you're going into an employment environment that looks pretty scary, it is easy to lose your moral compass, your decency, your sense of civility and your sense of community.

Decency Civility Community Compass
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In all my novels, I deal with the many problems and prejudices which exist for Black people in Britain today.

Black Britain Deal Exist
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I believe it is important to speak to your readers in person... to enable people to have a whole picture of me; I have to both write and speak. I view my role as writer and also as oral communicator.

Believe Both Communicator Enable
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I'm actually on the Twitter like all those crazy young kids are, and if I'm going to do an in-store appearance or I post something on my website, I tweet these followers, a word I don't like so much, and over 50,000 people go, like, 'Okay, I got it.

Followers Word Okay Twitter
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Where there is young people and vitality, you're going to find punk rock.

Young Vitality Punk Rock
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As soon as I finish a book, I sell the paperback rights to different publishers and that's where I recoup my money.

Book Different Money Publisher
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Questioning anything and everything, to me, is punk rock.

Anything Punk Rock Qestioning
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The prison-industrial complex and the military-industrial complex are here with us and are multi-billion dollar enterprises. We can make more money off the kid in Compton if he's a criminal instead of a scholar. It's business.

Money Criminal Instead Scholar
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If you don’t understand, ask questions. If you’re uncomfortable about asking questions, say you are uncomfortable about asking questions and then ask anyway.

Understand Question About Anyway
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Show a people as one thing, only one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become.

Become Show People Only
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To see change in your own area code is very powerful. There's a little orphanage down the street from my company, and we donate $1 from the sale of each CD we sell to the orphanage.

Company Orphanage Donate Powerful
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I think the U.K. is an amazing place and has been extremely good to me. Some of my favorite and most-listened-to bands are from England. I have met many good people there and have been in front of some of the most loyal audiences I have ever encountered.

Amazing Extremely England Encountered
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In Israel, there's a lot to learn from anyone, because to live there you've got to deal with the truth. Things happen real fast. Your day goes from cool to catastrophic in one second. Israelis know that the cafe you're in could blow up, or the shopping mall, and they rock that.

Israel Truth Happen Rock
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I wasn't playing the music, the music was playing me... and once that went away, and I had the feeling I was playing music, I had to stop. The need to go onstage and get my brain flattened every night left me, and what I didn't wanna do is go onstage and perpetrate a fraud... You cannot fool an audience.

Fraud Fool Audience Onstage
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Masculinity is a hard, small cage, and we put boys inside this cage.

Cage Small Inside Hard
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First we need to calm down, breathe, and get over ourselves.
Over First Calm Breathe
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Lasting love has to be built on mutual regard and respect. It is about seeing the other person.

Person Love Built Respect
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I was in Pakistan in Islamabad when Bhutto was assassinated, and the next day, you know, there's just plumes of smoke everywhere. I mean, Islamabad is on fire.

Plumes Islamabad Fire Smoke
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Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign. But stories can also be used to empower, and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people. But stories can also repair that broken dignity.

Dignity Break Matter Empower
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I'd like to talk to Sean Hannity in a controlled environment and say, 'O.K., you can't interrupt and jump up and down like a professional wrestler.

Interrupt Professional Wrestler Jump
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This was love: a string of coincidences that gathered significance and became miracles.

Love String Significance Miracle
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I have chosen to no longer be apologetic for my femaleness and my femininity. And I want to be respected in all of my femaleness because I deserve to be.

Deserve Chosen Longer Want
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I've been on 'Jay Leno,' and everyone likes Jay, but being on that show is a really boring afternoon. I sincerely like Jay, but I wouldn't want his job, because I'd have to interview Kathy Ireland, and there's nothing there I'd want to know.

Ireland Interview Kathy Boring
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A woman at a certain age who is unmarried, our society teaches her to see it as a deep personal failure. And a man, after a certain age isn’t married, we just think he hasn’t come around to making his pick.

Pick Around Come Age
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I'm not in a position where I get to pick and choose roles. I usually go on auditions in long lines and embarrass myself in front of casting directors, and with a lump in my throat and my ears burning, I walk past reception and smirking actors as I go to the parking garage and go back on the highway.

Actors Parking Garage Highway
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If I'm jetlagging, and I've missed some meals, and it gets to that point in a movie that you're supposed to cry, I'll let my defences down from around my inherent standing level of cynicism, and I'll cry.

Around Inherent Cynicism Cry
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My own definition is a feminist is a man or a woman who says, yes, there’s a problem with gender as it is today and we must fix it, we must do better. All of us, women and men, must do better.

Own Better Gender Definition
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Seven-11 is the pulse-beat of America. I think that Bruce Springsteen should do a song about a 7-11 in Asbury Park, New Jersey, but write it in such a way that American's youth can identify and slurp along with the Boss. Hail the Boss! Hail 7-11!

Youth Slurp Boss American's
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We teach girls shame. “Close your legs. Cover yourself.” We make them feel as though being born female they’re already guilty of something. And so, girls grow up to be women who cannot say they have desire. They grow up to be women who silence themselves. They grow up to be women who cannot say what they truly think. And they grow up — and this is the worst thing we do to girls — they grow up to be women who have turned pretense into an art form.

Teach Close Cover Feel
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I get along with Australians really well. Everyone's usually really cool, and it's always a drag to leave.

Australians Usually Drag Leave
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She rested her head against his and felt, for the first time, what she would often feel with him: a self-affection. He made her like herself.
Head Felt First Feel
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It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.

Anger Angry Choose Either
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Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.
Acting Day Future Gone
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We are Divine enough to ask and we are important enough to receive.

Ask Divine Enough Important
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What comes out when life squeezes you? When someone hurts or offends you? If anger, pain and fear come out of you, it's because that's what's inside.

Anger Because Come Fear
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You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.

Ask Back Blessed Enough
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Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

Appreciate Fix Lead Learn
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A world of happier men and happier women who are truer to themselves. And this is how to start: We must raise our daughters differently. We must also raise our sons differently.

World Start Raise Differently
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The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

About Anger Anxiety Components
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If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

Believe Doing Just Know
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Last year we said, 'Things can't go on like this', and they didn't, they got worse.

Like Said Things Worse
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I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

Facts Government Jokes Just
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The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.
Never School Used
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All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.

Ignorance Just Know Papers
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