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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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When your mother gives you confidence about anything that you do, you carry that confidence with you.

Mother Confidence Anything Do
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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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One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

One must Judge men Opinions
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Men still have to be governed by deception.

Men Governed Deception
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We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.
Remember Observe nature
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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

No words Wisdom Understands
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There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.

Greater impediment Progress Sciences
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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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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 accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.

We accumulate Opinion Age
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In order to feel loved, be respected and stay connected, we humans have a tendency to lie. We lie about who we are, what we want, what we need, what we have done or will do. Perhaps 'lie' is too strong a word. Let me say that what we do is withhold the truth.

About Connected Done Feel
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Talk about your negative experiences with the father, with your girlfriends. Not with your children. And bite your tongue when it comes to diminishing, denying, dismissing, name-calling.

About Bite Children Denying
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With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.

Most people Disbelief Founded Blind belief
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I knew all of the childhood prayers I uttered on my knees at the side of my bed. Many years of Sunday-school attendance had etched certain Psalms and rote prayers into the fibers of my brain. However, somewhere deep inside of me, I had the secret belief that I did not know how to pray, and that frightened me.

Attendance Bed Belief Brain
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Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.

Sickness Greatest defect
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For most of my life, I believed that my father had broken many of my bones. They were emotional and psychological bones; things no one could see, things that caused me to limp through life clutching for and holding on to people and situations that often rendered me immobile.

Believed Bones Broken Caused
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It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists

Gift Employing Vicissitudes Life
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Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.

Delight Understand Abstract System
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At birth, we are like cartilage - soft, flexible tissue. By the same natural process by which cartilage becomes hard bone, the soft, tender heart of an innocent child can become hardened by the circumstances into which she is born.

Become Becomes Birth Bone
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To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.

Receive applause Works Demand Power
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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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I surround people in unconditional acceptance and love to such a degree that everything that is unloving about them rises to the surface.

About Acceptance Degree Everything
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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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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 realize that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently defended on the nature of numbers.

Realize Undertaking Opposition
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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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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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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 have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.

Deaf Hearing Helped Invent
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Backstage, I get sleepy, and want to curl up and snooze. I never get nervous, whatever the event. I feel quite detached until I walk on stage, and then some gear inside me clicks and off I go like a wind up doll.

Backstage Clicks Curl Detached
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For a while I was perfectly happy not performing with 'The Who.' From 1982 to 1989 I felt 'The Who' did not exist. I let the band go, in my heart. However, Roger Daltrey had other ideas. He would not let go.

Band Did Exist Felt
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The bad part about growing older is I'm going bald. The good part is my nose seems to be getting shorter.

About Bad Bald Getting
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I felt that The Who had ended because we'd lost touch with our original Shepherd's Bush audience.

Audience Because Bush Ended
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I needed to give back, give back, give back. I felt guilty about my success. I felt uncomfortable about how easily I had been delivered this extraordinary life that I had.

About Back Been Delivered
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To be completely honest, I think if I hadn't been bullied into the band, I would have been happier as an art student. I would have been happier in a Brian Eno world.

Art Band Been Brian
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My father had played the guitar when he was young, and my uncle Jack had worked for Kalamazoo, before the war, developing guitar pickups. So there was a kind of family thing about the guitar, although it was considered something of an anomaly then.

About Although Anomaly Before
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English banjo players really were a law unto themselves - you don't find that kind of brisk banjo playing on the original Louis Armstrong or Bix Beiderbecke records.

Armstrong Banjo English Ind
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In order to have faith, or follow any other organized religion, I'd have to suspend a degree of disbelief.

Any Degree Disbelief Faith
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I don't view the fans in the way that most performers do. As a mass of people who have paid money, I know what they want. It's a very, very, very, very, very low common denominator.

Common Denominator Fans Know
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I'm less interested in how people are following each other and more interested in how they are following topics and tweets themselves. People are following more key words and concepts and more ideas and acting on those rather than individuals or organizations.

Acting Concepts Each Following
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You get recessions, you have stock market declines. If you don't understand that's going to happen, then you're not ready, you won't do well in the markets.

Get Going Happen Markets
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Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it.

Everyone Follow Made Market
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I had just as much support from Republicans as I did Democrats when I ran for president. But I should have organized the Democratic Party to get me re-elected.

Democratic Democratic Party Democrats Did
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I never was a big comic book fan. Obviously I'd heard them growing up from my friends who did read them, but I never was a big comic book reader.

Big Book Comic ComicBook
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I dress and eat like a fifth-grader, basically. I like sandwiches and cereal and hooded sweatshirts.

Basically Cereal Dress Eat
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