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Not every artist is a role model.
Artist Every Model Role
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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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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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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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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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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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“The hurrier I go, the behinder I get.”

Hurrier Behinder
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I don't have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.

Am Dependent Dime Food
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Death, the final, triumphant lover.

Death Final Lover Triumphant
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Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.

Also Am Believe Circumstances
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I really love baseball. The guys and the game, and I love the challenge of describing things. The only thing I hate - and I know you have to be realistic and pay the bills in this life - is the loneliness on the road.

Baseball Bills Challenge Describing
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.

Becomes Book Dead Genius
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
Admire Desiring Happiness Secret
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A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.

Awake Born Die First
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Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Careful Coin Determine How
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Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split one boulder.

Boulder Bush Deep Dig
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Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.

Throughout My Career Fed
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I think stupid people are surprised that I'm Australian. It's a small-minded; we live in a global community, but I suppose some people still are small-minded.

Australian Community Global I Think
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I prefer death in Christ Jesus to power over the farthest limits of the earth. He who died in place of us is the one object of my quest. He who rose for our sakes is my one desire.

Christ Death Desire Died
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May nothing entice me till I happily make my way to Jesus Christ! Fire, cross, struggles with wild beasts, wrenching of bones, mangling of limbs - let them come to me, provided only I make my way to Jesus Christ.

Beasts Bones Christ Come
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I come from Detroit where it's rough and I'm not a smooth talker.

Come From Detroit Where
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You must all follow the lead of the bishop, as Jesus Christ followed that of the Father; follow the presbytery as you would the Apostles; reverence the deacons as you would God's commandment.

Apostles Bishop Christ Commandment
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Reverence the deacons as you would the command of God.

Command God Reverence Would
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It sometimes feels like a strange movie, you know, it's all so weird that sometimes I wonder if it is really happening.

Sometimes Feels Like Strange
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Let not then any one deceive you, as indeed you are not deceived, inasmuch as you are wholly devoted to God.

Any Deceive Deceived Devoted
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Let us therefore be of a reverent spirit, and fear the long-suffering of God, that it tend not to our condemnation.

Condemnation Fear God Let Us
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There is one Physician, of flesh and of spirit, originate and unoriginate, God in man, true Life in death, son of Mary and son of God, first passible and then impassible: Jesus Christ our Lord.

Christ Death First Flesh
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I feel like in an interview situation, it's a kind of intimacy that I can understand and handle - versus in real life, when I'm much more of a bumbler and have a hard time.

Feel Handle Hard Hard Time
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I just have a harder time, I think, feeling close to people without self consciousness.

Close Consciousness Feeling Harder
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I think one of the reasons that I got so good at it, as somebody making radio stories, is that on the radio I can actually - I can understand what's happening in the interview and can make a connection in a way that makes sense.

Actually Connection Good Got
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When I was very small, maybe 8 years old, we had a big radio that stood on four legs, and it had a cross piece underneath it, and I used to take a pillow and crawl under the radio.

Big Crawl Cross Four
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I think the name of the show, 'This American Life' - we named it that just because it seemed like it made the thing feel big. But we don't think about whether it's an American story or not. We happen to be Americans. I think for the stories to work, they have to be universal.

About American American American Life
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It's rare for me to read any fiction. I almost only read nonfiction. I don't believe in guilty pleasures, I only believe in pleasures. People who call reading detective fiction or eating dessert a guilty pleasure make me want to puke.

Almost Any Believe Call
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I don't go looking for stories with the idea of wrongness in my head, no. But the fact is, a lot of great stories hinge on people being wrong.

Being Fact Go Great
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It's a wonderful feeling to be a bridge to the past and to unite generations. The sport of baseball does that, and I am just a part of it.

Am Baseball Bridge Does
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These times are so hard, and they're getting even harder.

These Times So Hard
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I eat the same breakfast and lunch every day, both at my desk. I employ no time-saving tricks at all.

Both Breakfast Day Desk
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Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.

Almost AlmostAll Baseball Effect
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Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.

Somewhere Deep Down There's
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For me to do a story, something has to happen to someone. It's a story in the way you learn what a story is in third grade, where there is a person, and things happen to them, and then something big happens, and they realize something new.

Big Grade Happen Happens
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Where dem dey when we dey chop grass
Dem Dey We Chop grass
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Writing is just very difficult. I'm an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is what I do best.

Adequate Best Difficult Editing
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The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.

The Truth You Don't
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The radio is good for taking somebody else's experience and making you understand what it would be like. Because when you don't see someone, but you hear them talking - and, uh, that is what radio is all about - it's like when someone is talking from the heart. Everything about it conspires to take you into somebody else's world.

About Because Conspires Else
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Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when you got your back turned.

Dealing With Backstabbers There
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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.

Auditorium Because Big Front
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Honestly, I find the analysis of dreams is one of the dullest things. I say this as a therapist kid. I find them deeply uninteresting, as a window to the soul.

Analysis Deeply Dreams Find
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I hate dream sequences in movies and T.V. shows generally for their heavy-handed symbolism and storytelling tediousness.

Dream Generally Hate Movies
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