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None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.

Always Back Bass Fat
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It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard 'Heartbreak Hotel' I thought, this is it.

Beat Elvis Got Heard
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I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.

Anyone Anything Call Doing
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But you know, as a kid I would have thought of a vegetarian as a wimp.

Kid Know Thought Vegetarian
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My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous.

Courteous Dad Guy Kind
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Look, people are allowed their own opinions and they don't always coincide with yours. As an artist you just have to keep plugging on.

Allowed Always Artist Coincide
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You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time to time because of her work.

Because Died District Her
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My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish.

Bless Dad Had Him
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Looking back, I think I was always musical. My dad was very musical, and I think my mom was musical.
Always Back Dad Looking
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I think I always had a musicality, and I think I could tell a good song from a bad song. And I would appreciate hearing something that was new to me.

Always Appreciate Bad Could
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Basically, you're selling a world as an actor, right? I mean it's like any sales person: if you believe in your product, you know your product, you sell it a lot better.

Actor Any Basically Believe
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The secret to my success is that I bit off more than I could chew and chewed as fast as I could.
Bit Chew Chewed Could
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Well, there's nothing strange about Americans as a whole. But, Angelinos are different!

About American Different Nothing
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I didn't get into entertainment until I was like 31. I didn't star in a movie until I was 46.

Entertainment Get Like Movie
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People don't hassle me. It's always very friendly anywhere in the world.

Always Anywhere Friendly Hassle
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Attitude is attitude, whether you're a West Coast gangster or East Coast gangster, you know?
Attitude Coast East EastCoast
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I'm not an aspiring young actor; I'm a storyteller who made it late in life, and I'm therefore an inspiration to everyone who thinks that, at 23, if you're not in the Backstreet Boys, then you're never gonna make it.

Actor Aspiring Boy Everyone
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And each book has to receive your best effort every single time. No slacking.

Best Book Each Effort
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Certainly the plagiarism, and dealing with the fallout of it, was the most difficult thing I've ever faced since I started writing.

Certainly Dealing Difficult Difficult Thing
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I'd never walked on snow 'til I was 50, you know. There's no snow where I come from.
Come Know Never Snow
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I was flavour of the year for a couple of years, and then, like everyone else, I faded into obscurity. I didn't car;, I loved it.

Car Couple Else Everyone
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You know, I'm a pretty mellow guy. I'm pretty easy-going. I see everyone's perspective.

Everyone Guy ISee Know
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Theater is the most enriching and thrilling thing to do as an actor.
Actor Enriching Most Theater
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My parents were married my whole life until my father passed away a few years ago.

Away Father Few Life
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If someone made fun of me, I'd be bummed out. But I'd play it like I thought it was hilarious.
Fun Hilarious Like Made
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Once we begin to see women as humans with as much right to occupy spaces as men. We would have removed the foundation upon which gender-based violence thrives.

Begin See women Humans Occupy spaces
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Freedom is exercising your rights getting an education without the fear of sexual harassment.

Freedom Your right Education Sexual harassment
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I have trouble with long-term things. I tend to get obsessed with stuff and then move on. Roles, songs, video games. That's why I was afraid of marriage. Because it was like a lifelong game of 'Madden.'

Afraid Because Game Games
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It’s time we moved the shame from victim to perpetrator. They’re the ones that should be ashamed.

Time We move Shame Victim
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…In reality, we are all losing. We’re losing our planet to plastic. Reduce, reuse, recycle.
Reality Losing Our planet Plastic
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Slowly but surely, I’m going to build myself a fantastic portfolio.

Slowly But surely Build myself
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Don’t be ashamed of your church, your religion, your faith. But don’t be silent.

Be ashamed Church Religion Faith
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When I was in my early twenties, I used to grow all sorts of very weird beards. All of them awful in retrospect. I had Civil War beards for a while, then Mennonite beards.

Awful Civil Early Grow
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It’s okay if it’s fame you aspire for. Your goal can be to ensure your name is on the lips of every household and that’s valid too.

Fame Aspire for Name Household
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I treasure laughs more than anything; they've helped me in life the most.
Anything Helped Laughs Life
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…There are days when passion won’t see you through but the purpose will.
Are days Passion You through Purpose will
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Give yourself permission to be free. Letting go isn’t always easy, but it’s always worth it.

Give Permission Free Letting go
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I know a lot about the Titanic. My dad was a Titanic expert.

About Dad Expert Know
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Every story has an end, but in life, every ending is a new beginning.

Every story End Life New beginning
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I have an airplane hangar with 17 cars in it. That's no joke. I have a 'half pipe' in there, too - you know, like a big ramp, where I skateboard. It's awesome. It's the ultimate fantasy.

Airplane Awesome Big Car
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When I was younger, the pressure was just being cool. I never thought of myself as a cool guy. I always thought of myself as more of the goofy guy.

Always Being Cool CoolGuy
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I always try and hold to that saying, 'I want to work on things I'd want to see.' The vast majority, that's been true.

Always Been Hold Majority
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I am passionate about the power of stories, well-told, to persuade, provoke and mediate human experiences. Stories sustain cultures and inspire change. Stories impact governance, development, business, commerce, education, technology and innovation.

Passionate Power Stories Provoke
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I think I used comedy as a mechanism: if I could make the other kids laugh, I wouldn't get beaten up or teased as much.

Beaten Comedy Could Get
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There are so many really good comedians, and I would never be as good as they are. It's not my calling.

Calling Comedians Good Many
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I would hope that my writing's cleaner than it was when I started.

Cleaner Hope Started Than
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I don't base any character on a real person, and really don't do composites either. I make them up.

Any Base Character Either
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Even more than getting married or having kids, I found losing a parent is what thrusts you into adulthood. For me it was. That was when the Earth tilted on its axis, and there was a paradigm shift, and I felt like a different person.

Adulthood Axis Different Earth
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All I really wanted to be was a working actor.

Actor Really Wanted Working
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Embarrassment and awkward situations are not foreign things to me.

Awkward Embarrassment Foreign Me
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