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Basically, I'm a musical vocalist, but I do voiceover stuff as a sideline, like plumbing or something.

Basically Like Musical Plumbing
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I hated school so bad. I only liked art class during high school. I was always smart.

Always Art Bad Class
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I have no idea why a guy would bring a jar of peanut butter to a concert.

Bring Butter Concert Guy
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Something I like to do a lot is just sit by water when there's a current and just stare into the water. I don't fish, I don't hunt, I don't scuba, I don't spear, don't boat, don't play basketball or football - I excel at staring into space. I'm really good at that.

Basketball Boat Current Excel
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Second only to the sea, the Miami sky has been the greatest comfort in my life past 50. On a good day, when the wind blows from the south, the light here is diffuse and forgiving.

Been Blows Comfort Day
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Luxury lives in the finer details. It's a cloth napkin at a dinner table. It's a mint on your pillow before bed.

Bed Before Cloth Details
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I was a pretty nice kid. Kind of quiet, but quiet in terms I wasn't going out and setting fire to anything. I had a big mouth and I was creative type, you know.

Anything Big Big Mouth Creative
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As a child, I remember my dad would sometimes drive me into town with him to play pinball machines together. It's a bittersweet memory but also a favorite.

Also Bittersweet Child Dad
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I'm irrational about all things creative, and I'm always late!
About All Things Always Creative
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Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.

Different Driving Even Fiction
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I've never heard a man in a suit tell me what to wear; that's not their forte. You hire your stylist; whatever someone's image is as an artist is what they've chosen to portray.

Artist Chosen Forte Heard
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Not every artist is a role model.
Artist Every Model Role
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There's an obligation to not lead people down the wrong path, but I hardly think me wearing short shorts on stage is creating monsters.

Creating Down Hardly Lead
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You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space.

Around Enough Long Radio
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But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.

Burning Even Good Great
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In some theoretical way I know that a half-million people hear the show. But in a day-to-day way, there's not much evidence of it.

Day-To-Day Evidence Hear Know
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We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews.

Book Break Distinct Down
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But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're being sincere all the time.

Being One Of The Problems People Problems
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I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.

Best Big Characters Counts
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One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind myself that people hear the show, that it has an audience, that it exists in the world. It's so easy to forget that.

Audience Easy Exists Forget
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Any story hits you harder if the person delivering it doesn't sound like some news robot but in fact sounds like a real person having the reactions a real person would.

Any Delivering Fact Harder
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I am mostly a pretty worried person. In conversations, I am always worried about what to say.

About Always Am Conversations
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I don't tweet because I don't need another creative venue. I don't need another form for self-expression. I don't need another way to get my thoughts out to people. I have one. I'm good.

Another Another Way Because Creative
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I don't take care of my voice at all, which is one reason that I sound as bad as I do.

Bad Care Reason Sound
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I don't own a radio. I listen to everything through apps or on my iPhone. And then I download the shows I like. Shows like 'Fresh Air', 'Radiolab', 'Snap Judgement', all those shows.

Air Apps Download Everything
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“It’s no use going back to yesterday because I was a different person then.”
Goin Back Yesterday Different
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“Who in the world am I? Ah, that’s the great puzzle.”

World Great Puzzle
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If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does.

Business World Great Faster
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Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.

Begin End Stop
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If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.

Know Goind Road There
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The rule is jam tomorrow and jam yesterday – but never jam today.
Rule Jam Tomorrow Yesterday
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Actually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures.

Best Gift Lifetime Adventures
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While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit

Laughter Joy Mockery Opportunities
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“I’d give all the wealth that years have piled, the slow result of life’s decay, to be once more a little child for one bright summer day.”

Wealth Piled Decay Bright
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“One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.”

Deep Secrets Life Really
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“I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it.”

Give Advice Seldom Follow
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When you are describing, a shape, a sound, or tint; Don’t state the matter plainly, but put it in a hint; And learn to look at all things, with a sort of mental squint.

Shape Sound Tint Mental
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Everything’s got a moral, if only you can find it.
Everything Moral Find
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It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backward.

Poor Memory Backward
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Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.

Take Care Sense Sound
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I have played Dracula a thousand times on stage and I find I have become thoroughly settled in the technique of the stage and not of the screen.

Become Dracula Find Played
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“No wise fish would go anywhere without a porpoise.”

Wise Fish Anywhere Porpoise
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“Read the directions and directly you will be directed in the right direction.”

Read Direction Directly Directed
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“When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one!”

Fairy-tales Happened Fancied Middle
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I have never met a vampire personally, but I don't know what might happen tomorrow.

Happen Know Met Might
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“That’s the reason they’re called lessons, the Gryphon remarked: because they lessen from day to day.”

Reason Lesson Lessen Gryphon
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“I’m not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours.”

Strange Weird Crazy Reality
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Life, what is it but a dream?
Life Dream
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I have lived too completely, I think. I have known every human emotion.
Emotion Every Human IThink
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“The hurrier I go, the behinder I get.”

Hurrier Behinder
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