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I think I'm a much better father as an older man than I was with my first kids. Occasionally, I have to yell at the little guys, but they don't take me seriously. 'Listen to the old guy,' they say. 'Isn't he great? He's mad.'

Better Father First Great
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I had a list of rules I made up one time. It says: Tell the truth, sing with passion, work with laughter, and love with heart. Those are good to start with, anyway.

Anyway Good Had Heart
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I boxed in Golden Gloves at Oxford and still know how to throw a straight left jab.

Boxed Gloves Golden How
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The one thing I regret is missing the time with my older children when they were young.

Children Missing Older One Thing
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To me, if you love it enough to devote your life to it, then you're doing the right thing.
Devote Doing Doing The Right Thing Enough
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It's much better being an older father. You don't have to go prove to the world and to yourself that you're who you want to be, for better or worse.

Being Better Father Go
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I had fought for my independence and fought for my freedom to do as I chose.

Chose Fought Freedom Had
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I used to think that my songs were the best things that I would leave behind me. And I definitely think my kids are now. For starters, they're writing better songs than I was at their age.

Age Behind Best Better
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Broadway is such a diverse community. Everybody knows how I believe, and everyone believes, and it's not a big deal. But in Hollywood, if you talk about politics - especially if you're a Republican - or spirituality, it's just not something people want to hear about.

About Believe Believes Big
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Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.

Authors Book Books Develop
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I just want to say, that if Jesus were alive, what would he be doing? Well, he would probably be accepting and loving people how they're made. And I always say this and it's really the truth. If being 4'11 was a sin, what would I do? Well, I could wear heels and I could add a wig.

Accepting Add Alive Always
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And I do - make no mistake, I am a Christian and I believe in God, and I don't believe he makes mistakes. So I don't believe that being gay is not a sin, and in fact it's how you're made.

Am Being Believe Christian
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I don't understand what the big deal is with gay marriage. Get over it, people.

Big Big Deal Deal Gay
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I've never turned into a bee - I've never been chased by a mummy or met a ghost. But many of the ideas in my books are suggested by real life.

Bee Been Books Chased
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In every decade rock and roll starts to get very serious and navel gazing and kind of self serious and every once and a while it kind of needs a kick in the pants.

Decade Every Gazing Get
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I want people to understand that there is a group of Christians out there who want to be more open and understanding and tolerant and loving of all kinds of people, even the people that don't believe in God at all.

Believe Christians Even God
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I was on the cheerleading squad and drama and the choir, but I was friends with everybody. I was not a partier. I was too Type A and crazy about my grades, but I was still there at everything.

About Choir Crazy Drama
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His death was the first time that Ed Wynn ever made anyone sad

Anyone Death Ever First
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I personally believe we were put here to build and not to destroy.

Believe Build Destroy Here
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Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.

Dance Deaf Even Kind
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Twitter is fun because it lets me stay in touch with all my original readers who grew up with my books. I love hearing from readers instantly on Twitter.

Because Books Fun Grew
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I love theme parks but I'm a real chicken on rides. I'd rather invent scary rides for my books than go on them for real.

Books Chicken Go ILove
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Ralph Waldo Emerson would definitely be my homeboy.

Definitely Ralph Would
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When I write for kids, I have to make sure they know what can't happen. They have to know it's a fantasy. But when I write for adults, they have to think it's real. Every detail has to be real or they won't buy it.

Adult BeReal Buy Detail
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The founder of the Mona Foundation actually knew my dad for years, and the more I learned about it, the more I realized I really found the perfect charity. It sponsors schools and educational initiatives all over the planet.

About Actually Charity Dad
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I'm lucky to have a wife and a child that keep me grounded.

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I set a goal for myself everyday when I write - 10 pages a day - and it's much harder because I'm too dumb to turn off my Twitter and everything so it's always on and it's a real distraction. It's a major distraction.

Always Because Day Distraction
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I've made myself laugh from some ideas - but I've never scared myself.

Ideas Laugh Made Myself
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I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.

Boring Dreamed Dreams Idea
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I feel that good fantasy will always be in demand. I think children especially need literature that helps them escape from the real world, which is very scary to them right now.

Always Children Demand Escape
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Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor.

Women Grow older Cosmetics Men
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The notion that as a man grows older his illusions leave him is not quite true. What is true is that his early illusions are supplanted by new, and to him, equally convincing illusions.

Notion Man grows Illusions True
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A broken heart is a monument to a love that will never die; fulfillment is a monument to a love that is already on its deathbed.

Broken heart Monument Love Fulfillment
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Whenever a man encounters a woman in a mood he doesn't understand, he wants to know if she's tired.

Man Woman Mood Understand
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So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater.
Pretty girl Stage Professional Undertakers
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Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.

Windows Chandeliers Illuminates Enveloping darkness
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Her heart - like every heart, if only its fallen sides were cleared away - was an inexhaustible fountain of love: she loved everything she saw.

Her heart Fallen sides Inexhaustible fountain
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A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.

Better Deadline Inspiration Negative
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If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.

Logical Men Place Ride
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All that is not God is death.

God Death
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Whose work is it but your own to open your eyes? But indeed the business of the universe is to make such a fool out of you that you will know yourself for one, and begin to be wise.

Work Business Universe Eyes
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Morals are private. Decency is public.

Decency Morals Private Public
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I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain.

Bargain Believe Dollars I Believe
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Women who love women are Lesbians. Men, because they can only think of women in sexual terms, define Lesbian as sex between women.

Because Between Define Lesbian
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Primarily, God is not bound to punish sin; he is bound to destroy sin. The only vengeance worth having on sin is to make the sinner himself its executioner.

God Bound Punish sin Destroy
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Humor comes from self-confidence.

Humor Self-Confidence
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Annihilation itself is no death to evil. Only good where evil was, is evil dead. An evil thing must live with its evil until it chooses to be good. That alone is the slaying of evil.

Annihilation Death Good Dead
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A Baby Sermon- The lighting and thunder, they go and they come: But the stars and the stillness are always at home

Lighting Thunder Stars Stillness
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But words are vain; reject them all— They utter but a feeble part: Hear thou the depths from which they call, The voiceless longing of my heart.

Words Vain Feeble part
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A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one.

Any Decision Even Follows
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