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When I cleaned up some 17 odd years ago, I felt terrible for about six months. The only thing that gave me any real relief was strenuous physical activity.

About Activity Any Cleaned
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Things started to get out of control when I began reading that I was a superstar.

Began Control Get Out
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I think it surprises a lot of people that I'm still around, you know, still - that I'm not pushing up daisies, as they say.

Around I Think Know Lot
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Though 'Fire and Rain' is very personal, for other people it resonates as a sort of commonly held experience... And that's what happens with me. I write things for personal reasons, and then in some cases it... can be a shared experience.

Cases Commonly Experience Fire
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Ireland, Italy and Brazil are the most musical places for me. They're extremely musical cultures and anything you pitch they basically catch.

Anything Basically Brazil Catch
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I know there are people who don't like their audience or like the experience of being recognized or celebrated, but my audience has been very good - they don't bother me and when they do contact me it's usually on the nicest possible terms.

Audience Been Being Bother
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A concert is always like a feast day to me.
Always Concert Day Feast
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Performing is a profound experience, at least for me. It's not as if I sit down and play 'Fire and Rain' by myself, just to hear it again. But to offer it up... the energy that it somehow summons live takes me right back, and I do get a reconnection to the emotions.

Again Back Down Emotions
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Performing is a profound experience, at least for me.

Experience Least Me Performing
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You know what? I never really factor Hollywood into anything. I'm a black actor, so I can't really control what Hollywood thinks. I gotta go do my thing, and my jokes have got to be funny. Whatever I do has got to be great.

Actor Anything Black Control
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When I was growing up in Terrell, Texas, I felt that it was not where I was supposed to be. I knew that I was meant for a different destination. I think that the minute I was born, there was something inside telling me where I would go, it's like energy - an intangible destiny.

Born Destination Destiny Different
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As black folks we're always sensitive. As a black person it's always racial.

Always Black Folks Person
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Every two, three years there is a movie about the Holocaust because they want you to remember and they want you to be reminded of what it was. When was the last time you seen a movie about slavery?

About Because Every Holocaust
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I never planned to win an Oscar. When I auditioned for 'Ray,' I was just thinking about what a great project it would be.

About Great Just Never
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I've had to be a man since I was 12 or 13. I had a job. And I was playing the piano for people twice my age. Handling responsibility is what makes a man a man.

Age Be A Man Had Handling
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My worst hair experience was when I was trying to relax my hair and my grandmother did it. It went all straight and I looked like a black Bee Gee.

Bee Black Did Experience
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I really wanted to just be a musician. I didn't want to be anything else, but I was funny and all that.

Anything Anything Else Else Funny
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I try to be as honest and open as I am with everything that I do because it's just, um, It helps me, you know, like whether it's stand up or singing or act. I just try to stay true.

Act Am Because Everything
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A lot of people may not know how competitive it is to play classical music, because when you think about it, the music that you're playing is music that's been here for years. And all you're trying to do is improve upon it when you play.

About Because Been Classical
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With 'Django Unchained,' when you're dealing with slavery, it's like a gymnastics routine with the highest amount of difficulty. Quentin Tarantino is not going to do a movie that's just going to lay there and be safe. There's going to be twists and flips.

Amount Dealing Difficulty Flips
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Guys don't adapt as well as women do to getting their heart broken for the first time. It's tragic.

Adapt Broken First First Time
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If you look at how long the Earth has been here, we're living in the blink of an eye. So, whatever it is you want to do, you go out and do it.

Been Blink Earth Eye
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When you look at Michael Jackson, there's nobody who loves him in that family, nobody. If they did, they'd tell him he didn't have to do all that in order to be famous. All he has to do is keep doing his music and be himself. Michael's been a little touched for about 20 years, but somebody needs to pull him aside and tell him they love him.

About Aside Been Did
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Then I was playing the piano at eight, and that helps you learn about women because most of the people I was playing for were women.

About Because Eight Helps
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I went to college on a classical piano scholarship. My grandmother made me practice one full hour a day. Every day. Man. I thought all she wanted was for me not to have any fun. Next thing you know, you have a career in music. Now, not everybody's going to go on and be Mozart or Michael Jackson. But music makes you smarter.

Any Career Classical College
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I'm bad on Valentine's Day, but even worse on Christmas. I go shopping at nine o'clock on December 24th every year. Nobody else is there. I'm in Toys'R'Us all by myself. I get there five minutes before closing.

Bad Before Christmas Closing
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But don't get caught out there looking goofy. It's weird. When you do something that stinks, it's going to last forever on the Internet. There's always someone in the audience with a camera phone and if you're not 100%, you're going to be watching yourself on YouTube.

Always Audience Camera Caught
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In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.

Affection Better Cases Feels
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I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

Agreeable Deal Great Great Deal
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They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.

Been Early Given Life
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From politics, it was an easy step to silence.
Easy Politics Silence Step
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To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

Certain Dancing Falling Falling In Love
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Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.

Considerable Enhanced Foolish Inconvenience
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It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.

Believe Clergy Everywhere Found
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An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.

Agreeable Always Cares Done
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People are increasingly frustrated that decisions taken further and further away from them mean their living standards are slashed through enforced austerity or their taxes are used to bail out governments on the other side of the continent.

Continent Bail Further Side
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There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.

Certainly Deserve Fortune Large
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A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

Anything Conceal Knowing Misfortune
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Women's fashion is a subtle form of bondage. It's men's way of binding them. We put them in these tight, high-heeled shoes, we make them wear these tight clothes and we say they look sexy. But they're actually tied up.

Actually Binding Bondage Clothes
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One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.

Been Does Has-Been Having
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One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
Cannot Half One Half Other
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My entire life has been an attempt to get back to the kind of feelings you have on a field. The sense of brotherhood, the esprit de corps, the focus - there being no past or future, just the ball. As trite as it sounds, I was happiest playing ball.

Future Focus Attempt Sounds
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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Afraid Always Am Does
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One of the scary things is that, when you're a kid, you look at your dad as the man who has no fear. When you're an adult, you realize your father had fear, and that you have it, too.

Adult Fear Father Realize
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To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.

Acquisition Almost Beauty Been
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I always dreamt of being a basketball player. A dream that only I believed in.

Always Being Dream Believed
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I feel I have to work hard to nurture whatever talent I have as an actor. I feel like it's not natural to me. So I don't take it for granted... What I think is my natural ability - which is writing - I think I totally take that for granted.

Ability Actor Feel Granted
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A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.
Cannot Ease Ill Letter
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One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.

Another Best Good Like
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Sex is great until you die, but it's never as great as it was when you were a kid, when it was a mystery.

Die Great Kid Mystery
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