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People - especially white people - they want me to be a role model just because of the life I lead. The things I say in my songs, they expect it of me.

Because Expect Just Just Because
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Along the way there will be success and setbacks; mistakes will be made but we will not take you for granted.

Success Mistakes Along Granted
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The work of making Nigeria great is not yet done, because I still believe that change is possible, this time through the ballot, and most importantly, because I still have the capacity and the passion to dream and work for a Nigeria that will be respected again in the comity of nations and that all Nigerians will be proud of.

Drea Passion Work Nations
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Every new government inherits problems. Ours was no different. But what Nigerians want are solutions, quick solutions not a recitation of problems inherited.

Quick Inherits New Solutions
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I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism.

Because Code Important Symbolism
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I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.
Always Ask Grant Just
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I'm so happy now. I love that I'm in a relationship right now... I want a life... The past five years or so I've found my groove and my balance.

So Happy Now Love
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I just had my 30th birthday and we went turkey shooting. It's what I wanted to do, so we went.

Just Had My Birthday
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Justice is justice, whether it’s done in Africa or elsewhere in the world. The important thing is let justice be done, whatever evidence the prosecution has in Senegal. I think they should – you should proceed to make it available to the world and prosecute him according to international law on human rights.

Right World Proceed Africa
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I would not be a good mother. I mean, I love being an aunt to my niece and nephew. And I used to want to, like, adopt 10 kids - because I had friends who were adopted, and I thought that was the coolest thing, to be chosen.

Would Not Be Good
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Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.
Death Distant Picnic Sound
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When I'm picking songs for an album I always want a song that I can relate to and that I have experienced. There's nothing worse than watching an artist try and sell a song that isn't believable coming from them.

When Picking Songs For
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The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone.

Able Advantage Alone Being
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In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.

Country Dear Holds Important
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To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.

Choose Get Go Know
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I'm actually not a big fan of the word hope. I think it's a depressing word. I don't want to hope - I want to know. Like I don't hope there's a God, I know there's a God.
Actually Not Big Fan
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When I went to Los Angeles right after high school, I got some acting jobs, and I never, ever wanted to be an actress! Public speaking and acting make me want to vomit.

When Went LosAngeles Right
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I've never been more nervous in my life than singing the national anthem at the Super Bowl.
Never Been More Nervous
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The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.

AdBetter Feel Good Guests
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Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Anyone Anyone Else Because Cannot
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Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

Carry Does Every Freedom
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You don't want to live your life and then meet someone. You want to share your life with someone. That's what I'm missing right now.

Life Live Meet Missing
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God just has a way of working things out the way he wants to and you have no say in that.

God He Just Out
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I don't have time to be lonely. And I get fearful of relationships because I feel guilty about wanting someone to be completely faithful and loyal, when I can't even give them 10 percent of the attention that they need. It's just the reality of my time, my life, my schedule.

About Attention Because Even
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Streaming is a really big market for me. We've been doing great in the streaming market, so it's not something I want to alienate at all. Streaming counts now. They're treating artists the way we deserve to be treated.

Alienate Artists Been Big
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It's easy to make an album full of great songs. But I want people to go for the ride. The songs have to make sense together.

Album Easy Full Go
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I want to live and feel all the shades, tones, and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.

Am Experience Feel Horribly
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If I ever go to West Africa, it would probably be for a free concert. I would want to do something for the people there. Maybe we can make a whole event, the way Bob Marley would have done it. Just for the people. And if they climb over the gate, let them climb over the gate.

Africa Bob Bob Marley Climb
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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Slant Tell But Truth
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I always wanted to do what my brothers were doing. I always wanted to play the games they played and play rough and wear pants and go outside.

Always Brothers Doing Games
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My childhood landscape was not land but the end of the land - the cold, salt, running hills of the Atlantic. I sometimes think my vision of the sea is the clearest thing I own.

Atlantic Childhood Clearest Cold
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Believe in some beneficent force beyond your own limited self. God, god, god: where are you? I want you, need you: the belief in you and love and mankind.

Belief Believe Beyond Force
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Arrogant, I think I have written lines which qualify me to be The Poetess of America (as Ted will be The Poet of England and her dominions).

America Arrogant England Her
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Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

Breath Creation Death Initial
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I think it is important to speak out.
Important Out Speak Think
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Often we mistake stability, in terms of security and economic activity, to mean a country is doing well. We forget the third and important pillar: rule of law and respect for human rights.

Activity Country Doing Economic
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The Arab Spring reminds me a bit of the decolonisation process where one country gets independence, and everybody else wants it.

Arab Spring Bit Country
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Here's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn't so. There is a tremendous diversity in fantasy today.

Always Diversity Fantasy Genre
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I think that personal experience is very important, but certainly it shouldn't be a kind of shut-box and mirror-looking, narcissistic experience. I believe it should be relevant, and relevant to the larger things, the bigger things, such as Hiroshima and Dachau and so on.

Believe Bigger Certainly Experience
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Science fiction is the ugly stepchild of mainstream literature, and fantasy is the ugly stepchild of science fiction, and tie-in novels are the ugly stepchild of fantasy... and on and on and on.

Fantasy Fiction Literature Mainstream
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The most common criticism I've seen is that I write 'popcorn fantasy:' lightweight action-adventure. Some people call it that as they explain why they love it for exactly that reason. I'm cool with that, either way. I just nod and let it go.

Call Common Cool Criticism
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Fantasy is like an idealized reality, and the core of fantasy is the one person can make a difference.

Core Difference Fantasy Like
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A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.

Bean Day Gets He
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On a more practical level, anyone out there who wants to be a writer should clearly recognize that this is a brutal business, where even incredibly talented people sometimes never make a living. If you want to chase such a dream, please have a Plan B in place.

Anyone Brutal Business Chase
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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
Life Need Only Really Succeeded
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I think setting a goal, getting a visual image of what it is you want. You've got to see what it is you want to achieve before you can pursue it.

Achieve Before Getting Goal
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What you really want for yourself is always trying to break through, just as a cooling breeze flows through an open window on a hot day. Your part is to open the windows of your mind.

Always Break Breeze Cooling
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The fact is, everything we want or yearn for is won through other people. No man on an island is happy; he is merely existing. The joyous life is the one filled with rich relationships.

Everything Existing Fact Filled
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Make it absolutely clear to yourself what you want from other people. That is really half the secret for drawing your desire to you in the shortest possible time and with the least amount of effort.

Absolutely Amount Clear Desire
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Question the motives of those who make requests of you. Discover what they really want. You may not want to give it.
Discover Give Make May
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