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For me, being memorable is more important than winning.

Being Important Me Memorable
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The point is that life for me is not going to be the way it is for everyone else. I have a fog machine and movie lights in my bedroom.

Bedroom Else Everyone Fog
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For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.

Civilization Me Politeness Sine
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I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God.

End Even Fight Forgotten
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My parents did divorce, but my dad has always been present for me and loving me and my mom as well when she was alive.

Alive Always Been Dad
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I don't flip. I don't even dive into a pool - straight cannonball for me. No, thanks.

Dive Even Flip Me
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I had a few dating disasters along the way with girls cheating on me. One girl was the inspiration for me singing 'Cry Me A River' on 'The X Factor.' That was my payback to her because she was unfaithful.

Along Because Cheating Cry
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We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out in dungeons so it's very hard for me to place any high value on the work that I do to write a song. Yeah, I work hard but compared to what?

Any Bullets Compared Dungeons
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I'm blessed and I thank God for every day for everything that happens for me.

Blessed Day Every Every Day
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As long as people remember me forever, that will be enough for me.

Enough Forever Long Me
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It is important for me that I represent a brand that reflects my personality.

Brand Important Me Personality
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For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it.
Book Discovering Me More
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For me a day without training is like a day without eating.

A day Training Without eating
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You know for me when I promise something I want to deliver. If you don't, you have to disappear.

Promise something Deliver Disappear
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That is not enough. Sport has been great for me, a great learning place that if you want to achieve you can, even if you are from the poorest part of Africa.

Sport Great Place Want
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Since I achieved something, running has exploded in my country. For me sometimes it is difficult even to know who the athletes are who are competing at the highest level. There are thousands.

Achieved something Running Exploded Country
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With the war and everything that's going on, unless you're Susan Sarandon, the best route is to keep your mouth shut. For me it is, anyway!

Anyway Best Everything Going
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The King of Spain displayed his esteem for me in a manner that I confess flattered me pleasantly when, after the death of Don Luis de Haro, he stated publicly in front of all the foreign ambassadors that he wanted to follow my example in not having a prime minister any longer.

After Ambassador Any Confess
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For me, music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion.

Activity Any Emotion Expression
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Opera is a beautiful and important diversion for me.

Beautiful Diversion Important Me
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I'm not joking around when I've said occasionally, trying to learn how to play a D chord properly has been a very big thing for me.

Around Been Big Big Thing
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I mean, I went to a Catholic boys' school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me.

Boy Catholic Class Hockey
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For me, a writer should be more like a lighthouse keeper, just out there by himself. He shouldn't get his ideas from other people all around him.

All-Around Around Get He
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I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.

Else Everyday Everything Everything Else
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TV started for me just as a means of keeping my husband Desi off the road. He'd been on tour with his band since he got out of the Army, and we were in our 11th year of marriage and wanted to have children.

Army Band Been Children
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Working through experience is best for me, just being there and trying to get into the mode.

Being Being There Best Experience
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I always want to have a personal relationship with everybody that works for me.

Always Everybody Me Personal
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I refuse to be one of those artists who, 10 years from now, they're bitter about the rise and the fall of their career. I understand that somewhere there's a peak and a crest for me, and I'm going to enjoy all levels. I'm going to enjoy this ride that I'm on, and when it slows down, that's when it will be time for another phase of my life.

About Another Artists Bitter
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When you get performance slots for award shows - that's a big deal for me.

Award Award Shows Big Big Deal
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The biggest influence? I've had several at different times - but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs.

About Along Biggest Biggest Influence
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When things are not working out as well for me, I look inwards first, before blaming the world.

When things Working out Well Inwards first
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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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For me, writing isn't a way of being public or private; it's just a way of being. The process is always full of pain, but I like that. It's a reality, and I just accept it as something not to be avoided.

Accept Always Avoided Being
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I want to thank you for stopping the applause. It is impossible for me to look humble for any period of time.

Thank you Applause Humble
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You know how some people write every day at a certain point? I'm not like that. I carry something around for a long time. I weigh the words and the sentences. I weigh the paragraphs. The process is much more meditative for me.

Around Carry Certain Certain Point
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I come from a little island with the Caribbean Sea on one side and the Atlantic Ocean on the other. I come from, really, nowhere, and for me, the fiction and the nonfiction, creative or otherwise, all come from the same place.

Atlantic Atlantic Ocean Caribbean Come
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Very early on in life, I decided the hell with it: material things weren't for me. Christmas would come, and other kids would have all these presents, and it wouldn't bother me a bit.

Bit Bother Christmas Come
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If there was a turning point for me, it was 'The Bridges at Toko-Ri.' It is a very fine short novel. But it gave me very little satisfaction. Really. I decided I wasn't going to go down that avenue.

Avenue Bridges Decided Down
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The toughest opponents for me are the defenders who are tough in the way they play - where you can't see a way through.

Defenders Me Opponents Play
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I had read tons of science fiction. I was fascinated by other worlds, other environments. For me, it was fantasy, but it was not fantasy in the sense of pure escapism.

Environments Escapism Fantasy Fascinated
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Writing a screenplay, for me, is like juggling. It's like, how many balls can you get in the air at once? All those ideas have to float out there to a certain point, and then they'll crystallize into a pattern.

Air Balls Certain Certain Point
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I knew that manual labor wasn't the career for me.

Career Knew Labor Manual
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I don't want anything seventy-thirty. Fifty-fifty's always good enough for me. I don't want to have to give anybody seventy; I don't want anybody to give me seventy. I want fifty.

Always Anybody Anything Enough
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It's a little dangerous for me to get outside myself and think about how I want people to see me.

About Dangerous Get How
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I found it was really impossible for me to write songs when I couldn't sing.
Found Impossible Me Really
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Writing for me is cutting out the fat and getting to the meaning.
Cutting Fat Getting Me
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I go through periods listening to specific types of music. Because I'm a musician, listening to music is... it's a bit like work for me. A little bit.

Because Bit Go Like
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For me, and I suspect for lots of other people too, bad things actually sometimes make you think more about faith and the fact that you're not facing these things on your own.

Facing Fact Faith Lots
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Fortunately for me, I'm in this unique business of not singing, not dancing, not performing - just kind of being there.

Being BeingThere Business Dancing
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I find it a lot healthier for me to be someplace where I can go outside in my bare feet.

Bare Bare Feet Feet Find
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