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I didn't realize I was working in a family medium.

Realize Working Family medium
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As a kid I used to raise snakes. Obviously, my social life was a bit down at the time. But it took me a while to realize that with an interest like that people are going to think there's something wrong with you.

Kid Raise snake Social life Interest
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What theatre started to look at much earlier than any other form was the internal operations of ordinary people, sometimes using mythic models in order to tell the story.

Any Earlier Form Internal
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What we learned quite early on is what was really important to early British pop that we produced-and this is where we were distinct from almost everybody else in this respect-is that it had to reflect exactly what the audience wanted us to say.

Almost Audience British Distinct
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Bob Dylan did the first really long record - Like A Rolling Stone - I think it was four minutes.

Bob Did Dylan First
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Some of our early work was two minutes twenty when it actually came out on vinyl, very, very, very short. Sometimes if you made a three-minute record they would make you do an edited version for radio, particularly in America.

Actually America Came Early
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I just could not believe that 30 years later we're still looking at people who are supposed to write little 2-minute pop that when they actually try to do something that's a little bit more they regard it as pretentious.

Actually Believe Bit Could
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What I took back, because of my exposure to the Jewish music of the 30s and the 40s in my upbringing with my father, was that kind of theatrical songwriting. It was always a part of my character. This desire to make people laugh.

Always Back Because Character
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I want to do what I can lend my talents to, but I want it to be as a human being and not as a two-dimensional character.

Talent Human being Character
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The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage.

Accompany Any Dramatic Itself
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I'm only interested in rites of passage stories.
Interested Only Passage Rites
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I only really started to go to plays and to be interested in drama 20 years ago when as an artist I was already well-rounded. I think I'm more disciplined today.

Artist Disciplined Drama Go
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The world is not based on fairness. Human beings can rise to fairness, can administer something that makes it fair or just. But that's not God.

The world Based on Fairness Human being
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I think I probably would have enjoyed to keep my own private pain out of my work. But I was changed by my audience who said your private pain which you have unwittingly shown us in your early songs is also ours.

Also Audience Changed Early
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I said something really stupid once. I told a friend that my mother was so beautiful, but my dad was ugly. My dad heard it and just laughed it off, but I felt guilty. It haunted me for years. I should never have said that.

Something really Beautiful
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I like writing books. I'd rather be at home with my wife. I can write, take a break, come out, have a glass of tea, give my wife a kiss, and go back in and write some more. It's not so bad. I am really lucky.

Writing books At home Wife Glass
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I love acting, especially if it's a fantasy of some kind, where it's not just realistic, it's not naturalism.

Love acting Fantasy Kind Realistic
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I'm going to tell you what my religion is. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

Tell you Religion Do unto Others
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I never thought of it as God. I didn't know what to call it. I don't believe in devils, but demons I do because everyone at one time or another has some kind of a demon, even if you call it by another name, that drives them.

Never thought God Believe Devils
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Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. s

Everyone Genius Year Bright ideas
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Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.

Never undertake Courage Ask Blessing
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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Person reveals Character Joke Resents
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He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.

In love Advantage Encounter Rivals
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If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.

Falls Character Man Badly
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Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.

Nothing makes Old Thought Growing older
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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Sure conviction Reason Good minds
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Whether at work, at home or in public, we have been trained to believe that who we are at the core of our being is often unacceptable. As a result, we work diligently to live up to - and sometimes down to - what others have made us out to be, whether or not it is an accurate reflection of who we are.

Accurate Been Being Believe
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We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.

Obliged Regard Minds Clever
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We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.

Someone Occupies Official position
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At times I have long conversations with God. Sometimes I ask questions. I admit that there are also times when I let out my frustrations, fears, and anxieties in less than honorable ways. No matter what I pray about or how I pray about it, the result I always get is comfort.

About Admit Also Always
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I grew up in the Holiness Church, where prayer was an event.
Church Event Grew Holiness
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It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.

Everywhere Greater part Human wisdom
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My father never kissed me, hugged me or told me that he loved me. As my only living parent, he became the filter through which I saw myself, the possibilities for my life, the world and all men. He was a conflicted and dark filter.

Became Dark Father Filter
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The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.
Pleasures Imagination Drawings Models
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Everyone has something that blocks us from the full experience and expression of our nobility.
Blocks Everyone Experience Expression
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Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.

Know Our weakness Cease Any harm
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The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.

Human tendency Regard Little things
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I think most people think that a spiritual path or growing spiritually means that all of a sudden you'll be able to forecast the six lotto numbers and all your bills will be paid.

Able Bills Forecast Growing
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Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.

Man Masterpiece Creation Believe
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Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.

Man God Passion
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I never feel with the fashion stuff that it's too fake. If I was a model and had a working part in Fashion Week, then I might feel like that, but I'm just a visitor. I really only walk in and watch the shows and think, 'Maybe I could wear that in a video.' I meet the designer, say hello, and then I go.

Could Designer Fake Fashion
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I didn't have cable television growing up; there were only six channels you could watch then. The only really good channel was channel 10, and they would play 'The Nanny Called Fran' every night for years. I've seen every episode 100 times. I would get my Grandma to make me leopard skin dresses on her sewing machine.

Cable Channel Channels Could
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Maybe everyone is a little too reassuring that things are going to be OK to college graduates. It gives them a false sort of security.

College Everyone False Gives
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Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties that are endemic in being British also make it an incredibly fertile place culturally. A brilliant place to live. Sad but true.

Also Being Brilliant British
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It wasn't just about flashing lights and pinball machines blowing up and things like that. It was about using encores, bringing back the good songs and using techniques that I knew about from rock performance.

About Back Blowing Bringing
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Everything that I had done creatively related to two or three incidents that happened to me when I was a child that I'd forgotten. Everything, absolutely everything.

Absolutely Child Creatively Done
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I know how it feels to be a woman because I am a woman. And I won't be classified as just a man.

Am Because Classified Feels
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I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth.

Born Mouth Plastic Spoon
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IM is interesting because you look at your buddy list and, at a glance, see what your friends are listening to, what they're working on, what they're doing. The problem was that you were bound to the computer keyboard.

Because Bound Buddy Computer
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When I grew up, what was interesting for me was that music was color and life was gray. So music for me has always been more than entertainment.

Always Been Color Entertainment
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