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Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.

Bread Flour Goes Making
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My vision is to build an e-commerce ecosystem that allows consumers and businesses to do all aspects of business online.

Aspects Build Business Businesses
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A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.

Child Does Forever He
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Then I read Little Women, and of course, like a lot of really young girls, I was very taken with Jo - Jo being the writer and the misfit.

Being Course Girl Like
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When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep.

Asleep Duty Felt People
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As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag.
Any AsFarAs Being Concerned
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All I've ever wanted, since I was a child, was to do something wonderful.

Child Ever Since Something
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I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written 'Just Kids' had I not spent all of the 80s developing my craft as a writer.

Could Craft Day Developing
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When I stopped performing for 16 years and lived in Michigan and was married and raising my children, I wrote about four or five books. I haven't published them. I just haven't gotten around to it for several reasons.

About Around Books Children
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My father's mother was from Liverpool and she had this very beautiful English china. I only wanted to drink my cocoa out of my grandmother's cup and saucer.

Beautiful China Cup Drink
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The issue of gender was never my biggest concern; my biggest concern was doing good work. When the feminist movement really got going, I wasn't an active part of it because I was more concerned with my own mental pursuits.

Active Because Biggest Concern
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I loved books; I read my childhood away. I was more interested in my interior world.

Away Books Childhood Interested
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Usually when I go to a place for the first time, unless there's something historical or spectacular that nature has to offer, the first thing I like to do is see what's on the minds of the people.

First FirstThing FirstTime Go
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My mom loved rock 'n roll. My father hated it. We couldn't play it when he was around.

Around Father Hated He
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I have to drink this much to be as unfunny as you.

Drink Much You
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I came into music because I thought the presentation of poetry wasn't vibrant enough. So I merged improvised poetry with basic rock chords. That was my original mission.

Basic Because Came Chords
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Because you know, down deep in my heart, when all is said and done, I still live under the illusion that basically people think of me as an up-and-coming young actor.

Actor Basically Because Deep
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Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide.

About Alone Early Nights
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I think I realized it was an art form at the beginning, but it took me a really long time before I was able to view what I was performing myself as an art form.

Able Art Before Beginning
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I don't have any plugs or tucks but people do what they want. I look at it as mutilation.

Any Look People Want
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I used to think that one of the great signs of security was the ability to just walk away.

Ability Away Great Just
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I'm an actor who they said was wrinkled and balding and everything else when I was in my early 30's. Most of the people who wrote that who thought they were younger than me are now bald and wrinkled.

Actor Bald Early Else
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I'm the last guy in the world to feel overlooked by the Academy.

Academy Feel Guy Last
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Yeah, there were a few years in the early nineties where I really began to hate what was valued as funny and just sort of what was valued in stand-up, period.

Began Early Few Funny
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My whole career strategy has been to build a base so that I could take the roles I want to play. I'd hate to think that a shorter part might not be available because I was worried about my billing.

About Available Base Because
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I remember, when 9/11 went down, my reaction was, 'Well, I've had it with humanity.' But I was wrong.
Down Had Humanity Reaction
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Based on my own experience, when you're going through adolescence you don't know how the world works. You can't set a story in the world you live in because you don't know what a utility bill is, or how to budget your paycheck.

Adolescence Based Because Bill
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As unhealthy as I am, I'm weirdly aware of exactly how my body functions.

Am Aware Body Exactly
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In my mind, I was always a comedian who was going to branch into writing.
Always Branch Comedian Going
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We are going as fast as we can as soon as we can. We're in a race against time, until we run out of money.

Against Fast Going Money
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With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60.

Fat Jack Jack Nicholson Nicholson
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The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.
Big Blues Delta Easy
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Before doing my first open mic, I was sitting in the back watching all these comedians banter back and forth and fire jokes and up each other, and I thought, 'This is where I wanna be.'

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To get asked to do stuff like 'United States Of Tara' and 'Caprica' is terrific. I can't complain.

Asked Complain Get Like
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When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award.

Award Earned Every High
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In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.

Back Class Half Last
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A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.

Approach Bomb Fear Got
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Every audience is different, even within the same venue. You have to just make every audience your audience; you can't pre-judge an audience based on the size of the room or the type of room.

Audience Based Different Even
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I focus on one thing and one thing only - that's trying to win as many championships as I can.

Championships Focus I Can Many
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Having enough money has to go hand in hand with living in a way that you're not being a slave to your possessions.
Being Enough Go Hand
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I know how my body operates differently from what it did when it was 30 and when it was 20. As unhealthy as I am, I'm weirdly aware of exactly how my body functions.

Am Aware Body Did
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Doing 'Young Adult' was really reassuring to me in a lot of ways. It confirmed a lot of suspicions I had about great actors.

About Actor Adult Confirmed
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As much as I know people love the method and what you can draw out of yourself, a lot of acting is very imaginative.

Acting Draw Imaginative Know
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Beyond any role that I ever had, really early on as a stand-up, I would see actors decide to try it and they would bomb miserably. What I realized was that stand-up, acting and writing are all their own disciplines.

Acting Actor Any Beyond
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Any acting job that I ever got, I always treated it like I was a neophyte; I didn't know what I was doing, and I was going to work just as hard as I do on my stand-up.

Acting Always Any Doing
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I really had to imagine the kind of person that I would have been if I had never left my hometown. I don't think I would have been a very pleasant person.

Been Had Hometown Imagine
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I fantasize and idealize myself as Bugs Bunny, but I know deep down I'm Daffy Duck.
Bugs Bunny Deep Down
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As a recording artist/music minister, you need visa to travel places but your voice does not need a visa.. So sing the right message! Your music can get to places you may never go to.

Recording artist Visa Travel places Music
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Dear young minister, believe me, no matter how anointed, and gifted you are, having a good pastor over you is priceless.

Young minister Believe me Anointed Priceless
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Imbibe the values of integrity, honesty, hard work and loyalty and see what those virtues in your workplace will do for you as you develop your capacity.

Imbibe Value Integrity Honesty
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