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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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That's one of the things about theater vs. film - with theater, actors have a little more control, and one of the disappointing things about films is that once you're done shooting, anything can happen, you know?

About Actor Anything Control
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What I'm trying to do is find either existing properties or come up with properties or angles or stories which will create music drama. It's my obsession and most of all I would like to remain working in theatre. I think it's very much alive.

Alive Angles Come Create
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IM is interesting because you look at your buddy list and, at a glance, see what your friends are listening to, what they're working on, what they're doing. The problem was that you were bound to the computer keyboard.

Because Bound Buddy Computer
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I was opposed to doing TV for a long time because I thought the quality of writing wasn't very strong, as opposed to film, but there's been a shift in term of the quality of scripts. HBO has attracted a tremendous amount of great writing talent.

Amount Attracted Because Been
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I bought a Dutch barge and turned it into a recording studio. My plan was to go to Paris and record rolling down the Seine.

Bought Down Dutch Go
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I don't really know any other musicians like me. I grew up backstage with my dad who played in a post-war dance band, so I always feel at home at a venue.

Always Any Backstage Band
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I should call people back more readily. I'm not the best friend sometimes in terms of that. I do follow that white balloon and get distracted a lot.

Back Balloon Best BestFriend
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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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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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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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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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If you go to Minnesota in January, you should know that it's gonna be cold. You don't panic when the thermometer falls below zero.

Below Cold Falls Go
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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 think actors get too comfortable. I like being uncomfortable as an actor because it keeps you alive. I don't know, I think it's important.

Actor Actor Alive Because
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My favourite superhero? I have a soft spot for Batman, because he doesn't have any super powers - he's just a person. And he's pretty dark.

Any Batman Because Dark
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Writing is getting killed by too many chefs. Back in the Bogart days, it started with great scripts. You had a writer, and he wrote a script, and that was your movie. I think that's been watered down a bit lately.

Back Been Bit Bogart
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A lot of directors straight out of film school are very technically minded, but they don't have an understanding of actors or how to talk to them.

Actor Directors Film FilmSchool
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I don't like people being cautious and tentative and choosing their words carefully around me because I'm a dwarf.

Around Because Being Carefully
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I am this guy who's four and a half feet tall, but my life doesn't constantly address it.

Address Am Constantly Feet
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We're not environmentally doing very good things to this planet, and we might not be around too long.

Around Doing Environmentally Good
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Every person my size has a different life, a different history. Different ways of dealing with it. Just because I'm seemingly O.K. with it, I can't preach how to be O.K. with it. I don't think I still am O.K. with it. There's days when I'm not.

Am Because Days Dealing
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My personal view is that another total lockdown would be counterproductive. Before defeating the virus, we must learn to live with it all around us and practice the skills of avoiding it like a landmine. Practice makes perfect. We cannot perfect those skills by locking ourselves up

Personal view Lockdown Counterproductive
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It is very intriguing that it is the same set of people, including some members of the public, who always seek to hold public officers accountable (and who are always quick to cry ‘crucify him’) that also put them under pressure to contribute financially to everything they do.

Intriguing People Members Public
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It would appear that majority of those who demand accountability from public officers do so for selfish reasons as they really would not mind if they benefit from some unethical behavior of the public officers; their watchdog role is just to ensure that they are not ‘left out’

Majority Demand Accountability Selfish
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The preponderance of opinions in countries around the world is that majority of citizens are blaming their govts for not doing enough to curb COVID-19. We must be tolerant & allow people vent their opinions. It’s a sign of the times. The grass is always greener on the other side

Preponderance Opinions World Citizens
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Let’s use this period of partial lockdown to reignite old friendships and our common humanity. It’s not a period of gloom, but precaution. Call up old friends; search for your childhood playmates on social media and chat them up. Soon, we shall return to our crazy daily schedules

Partial lockdown Reignite Old friendship
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This is how every African should think for Africa to grow. Stop feeling inferior to Oyibo people. Na the same God create us. We have what they do not have while they have what we do not have. Love our own, appreciate…

Think Grow Stop feeling inferior
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You can’t fix yourself by breaking someone else. Instead of putting anyone down, inspire them, change their life for the better, make them happy, make them smile, lift their spirit, and see what blessings will come your way.

Fix yourself Breaking someone Inspire them
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Surround yourself with people who will lift you higher. Whoever is trying to bring you down is already below you.
Surround yourself People Higher Down
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Don’t be deceived by what happens on social media. Obviously, there is something else actors are doing, perhaps other businesses to shore up their income.

Deceived Happens Social media
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Even on the same WiFi , everyone’s file size is different. Don’t despair. The wait seems long because the file is large! You will rejoice!

Size Different Don't despair Wait
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Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

Building Cliff Down Jumping
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My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.

Bite Down Everything Finish
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You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Books Burn Culture Destroy
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I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
Describe Future Prevent Try
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If you don't like what you're doing, then don't do it.

Doing Like Then You
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I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.

Before Good Hard HardWork
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You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.

Must Simply Them Things
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I think you have to learn that there's a company behind every stock, and that there's only one real reason why stocks go up. Companies go from doing poorly to doing well or small companies grow to large companies.

Behind Companies Company Doing
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I've found that when the market's going down and you buy funds wisely, at some point in the future you will be happy. You won't get there by reading 'Now is the time to buy.'

Buy Down Found Funds
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Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.

Anything Creativity Enemy Lousy
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Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We've been so busy damning ourselves for years. We've done it all, and yet we don't take credit for it.

American Been Busy Credit
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Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it. If you don't write stories that other people love, you'll never make it.

Answer Anything Everything Love
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Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled.

Any Being Capable Chances
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I don't tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.
Anyone How Me No-One
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I don't believe in colleges and universities.

Believe Colleges Universities
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I don't have a computer. A computer's a typewriter. I already have a typewriter.

Computer Typewriter
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You don't read in your own field. You read in that field when you're young, so that you can learn.

Field Learn Own Read
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I'm not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work.

Control Does Muse Work
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