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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.

Depend Dreary Make Morals
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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Alive Amen Humbly Instead
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
Identity Idle Personal Requires
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The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

Full Happy Kings Number
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.

Laughed Lived Loved Man
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When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.

Am Boy Estate Girl
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I can do anything I want to do really, I might as well.
Anything ICan Might Really
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I come from the tradition of a big Irish family that loves to sing. I love to perform.

Big Come Family ILove
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I think there are ghosts. I haven't seen or heard anything. I've definitely felt something, but it's not scary.

Anything Definitely Felt Ghosts
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Inside me there is a fat man dying to get out.

Dying Fat FatMan Get
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People change. I wouldn't like to be accountable for the interviews I've done, or the person I was when I was 20, 21.

Accountable Change Done Interviews
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Perhaps I'm absolutely bonkers and don't know it. Perhaps I'm psychotically mental.

Absolutely Know Mental Perhaps
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My dad sent Frank Sinatra a dollar bill to autograph, and when it came back, signed, he had it framed: it was always up on the wall in whatever flat we were in.

Always Autograph Back Bill
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In Los Angeles, I feel connected to a hubbub of strangeness. And I enjoy that; I like strangeness.

Angeles Connected Enjoy Feel
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I'm not educated. I left school when I was 16, with no qualifications.

Educated Left Qualifications School
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The entertainment industry and my place in it is a place where you burn brightly for as long as you can.

Brightly Burn Entertainment EntertainmentIndustry
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I'm still looking for the rules of what is and isn't pop music. I'm pop. I mean, of course I am. What isn't pop? There should be a pop amnesty where everyone reclaims it.

Am Amnesty Course Everyone
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I did the rock 'n roll-pop cliche of getting burnt out. I'm not the first person that happened to, and I'm sure I won't be the last.

Burnt Cliche Did First
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I grew up in a lot of different places, so I pick up accents pretty quickly.
Accents Different Grew Lot
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Depression isn't about, 'Woe is me, my life is this, that and the other', it's like having the worst flu all day that you just can't kick.

About AllDay Day Depression
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When you work with directors who really love actors, who love their contribution, it feels amazing. But sometimes when you work with directors, you feel like you're in the way.

Actor Amazing Contribution Directors
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I am not hugely famous; I am not a name. For me, it's not the size of the role, it's the material and the people you are working with.

Am Famous Hugely Material
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I grew up in an area of Ireland where there weren't many black or mixed-race children. But I never had any hassle; maybe I've blocked it out, but I don't think so.

Any Area Black Blocked
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I've lived in L.A. for a long time, and they say, 'If you sit in a barber's shop for long enough, you will get a hair cut.' Well, if you live in Los Angeles for long enough, you're going to get some surgery.

Angeles Barber Cut Enough
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I show off - I'm a very good show off. It's what I do, it's what I'm good at.
Good Off Show ShowOff
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I'm a born entertainer. When I open the fridge door and the light goes on, I burst into song.

Born Burst Door Entertainer
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I enjoy nakedness. I am a bit of a naturist at heart.

Am Bit Enjoy Heart
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I'm trying to not follow fashion. I don't even like the word. But I do like clothes, and I like nicely cut clothes that last and that are built to be worn for the next 30 years.

Built Clothes Cut Even
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I've had to make friends with an awful lot of bad fashion choices.
Awful AwfulLot Bad Choices
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I'm constantly doing new stuff, and I want it to be received really well. Who knows what's ego, what's business, what's artistic. It all shifts on a day-to-day basis.

Artistic Basis Business Constantly
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I like connecting with people, and that's what good art is: a point of connection. There's nothing better, on stage or on film.

Art Better Connecting Connection
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I refuse to totally grow up. I've always been someone who says and does things that push politically correct boundaries.

Always Been Boundaries Correct
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I didn't become an actor to make money. And I didn't become an actor to be famous - though people always gasp if you say that, as if it's unfathomable that an actor doesn't want to be a star.

Actor Always Become Famous
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I like to be comfortable, but I do enjoy being a British gent and dressing up a bit.
Being Bit British Comfortable
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Ninety percent of my roles, I've had to fight for. It's only a really small percentage of people who get handed roles.

Fight Get Had Handed
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I want a hit. I don't think anybody spends 12 months writing and recording an album, making something cool, and says, 'Great, I hope this doesn't sell.' I don't understand that mind-set. I want hits: a big bunch of them.

Album Anybody Big Bunch
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I'm interested in the idea that we all start off as these lovely little babies with all this potential but that circumstances mean that we don't always live the life we should.

Always Babies Circumstances Idea
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You know, I am a mainstream person with mainstream tastes, and I want to hear the hits.

Am Hear Hits IAm
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I am not as bad as people would suggest. Not as good as I would like to be.
Am Bad Good IAm
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My job as an artist is to speak up for those who might be perceived as the losers. Or those who can't shout. No wonder public-school people always get into politics or acting: they're taught to shout that much more loudly.

Acting Always Artist Get
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Bette Davis is my hero. I'm obsessed with her. I base everything I do on her.
Base Bette Davis Everything
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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts

Nothing Education Astonishing Ignorance
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Friends are born, not made.

Friends Born Made
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I know I've said it before in interviews, but the idea that all actors have their eye on some sort of prize - it being an Oscar, or fame, or whatever - not all actors I know are like that.

Actor Before Being Eye
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No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

No man Means Says Words
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I didn't have that many black people in my life, so I had to sort of search them out. And I didn't grow up in America, but I identified as much with their writing about the black experience as I did with their writing about the human experience.

About America Black Did
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Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

Chaos Law Nature Dream
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Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Politics Professions Systematic organization
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I'm always very careful to say I'm Irish-Ethiopian because I feel Ethiopian and I look Ethiopian and I am Ethiopian. But there are 81 languages in Ethiopia, and I don't know any of them.

Always Am Any Because
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Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

Chaos Breeds life Habit
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