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For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.

Be Real Character Find Heart
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I need guys who are dangerous to go out and have my best performance.

Best Dangerous Go Guys
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Memoir is a difficult literary form to pull off when dealing with discrete and poignant moments in a life, even harder when seeking to narrate over 80 years of existence.

Dealing Difficult Even Existence
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The kidnapped person is so tantalizingly close, kept alive by a devastating hope. Kidnapping or hostage-taking is perhaps the most disturbing form of terror because it turns this hope into a liability that can paralyze.

Alive Because Close Devastating
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Touring is tough. You're almost in a haze because you don't really know where you are half the time: You're in a hotel room one moment, and the next thing you know, you're onstage performing for 60,000 people, then you're back on an airplane. It's very hectic and I couldn't do it without my family.

Airplane Almost Back Because
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Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

Accomplish Done Lies Loves
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The soul is your innermost being. The presence that you are beyond form. The consciousness that you are beyond form, that is the soul. That is who you are in essence.

Being Beyond Consciousness Essence
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Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.

Another Prejudice Reduce Anymore
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Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

Being Body Deep Dependent
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In performance, you don't always feel that sort of family bond right off the top. It sort of develops and grows over time.
Always Bond Develops Family
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Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Former Human Infinite Stupidity
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I am that prodigal son who wasted all the portion entrusted to me by my father. But I have not yet fallen at my father's knees. I have not yet begun to put away from me the enticements of my former riotous living.

Am Away Begun Entrusted
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For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking.

Concentrated Form Thinking Writing
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What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.

Anguish Beautiful Beautiful Music Cries
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I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.

Say Things Serious Them
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I am God's vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.

God's Vessel But Greatest
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It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.

Books Communication Exciting Fact
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It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist; the threat is rather to life itself.

Biology Curious Evolution Existence
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.

Before Future Happens Itself
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You need to live in a dome initially, but over time you could terraform Mars to look like Earth and eventually walk around outside without anything on... So it's a fixer-upper of a planet.

Anything Around Could Dome
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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

America Change Could Former
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The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

Arouse Being Ecstasy Envy
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We sometimes hear the argument, 'All the world' thinks this, or does that, given as a reason for our doing likewise; but that is an argument that should have no weight with the Christian, who is commanded not to be conformed to the world.

All The World Argument Christian Does
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Transformation is a process, and as life happens there are tons of ups and downs. It's a journey of discovery - there are moments on mountaintops and moments in deep valleys of despair.

Deep Despair Discovery Downs
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It occured to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.

Attain Eating Ever Form
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I'd go on the train to castings, changing from my school uniform on the train. I carried on like that for a few years, getting jobs in bits and pieces.

Train Castings Changing From
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So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.

Accompany Expressive Form Give
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Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.

Am Antithesis Form Inspiration
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If I weren't performing, I'd be a beauty editor or a therapist. I love creativity, but I also love to help others. My mother was a hairstylist, and they listen to everyone's problems - like a beauty therapist!

Also Beauty Creativity Editor
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I think it's healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care - that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show.

Care Channel Energy Give
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I don't really like to call myself a brand, and I don't like to think of myself as a brand. I'm a singer, a songwriter, a musician and a performer. And an actress, and all the other things that I do. When you add it all together, some might call it a brand, but that's not my focus.

Actress Add Brand Call
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There's my personal life, my sensitive side, and then me as a performer, sexy and energised and fun.

Fun Life Me Performer
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You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.

About Alive Basic Because
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The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.

Acquiesce Consent Control Deployed
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Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
Great Performed Perseverance Strength
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

Find Information Kinds Know
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Bands today have to learn their craft by putting the hard work in that we did when we were young performers.

Bands Craft Did Hard
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I do work a lot. I mean, most of my income, I would say, comes from live performances. And then you've got publishing, you've got record royalties.

Got Income Live Lot
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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.

Content Important Information More
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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

Democracy Freedom Gives Measure
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The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

Truly New Criticism Art
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It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.

Public Opinion Judging Attitude
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All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

Form Human Interpretation Knowledge
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Do I perform sometimes in a manic style? Yes. Am I manic all the time? No. Do I get sad? Oh yeah. Does it hit me hard? Oh yeah.

Am Does Get Hard
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I write on big yellow legal pads - ideas in outline form when I'm doing stand-up and stuff. It's vivid that way. I can't type it into an iPad - I think that would put a filter into the process.

Big Doing Filter Form
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At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he knows he can't.

Fight Full He Hope
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Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

Design Difficult Easy Many
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If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Counsel Despair Determination Diligence
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

Affords Another Difficulties Forming
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The properties of people and the properties of character have almost nothing to do with each other. They really don't. I know it seems like they do because we look alike, but people don't speak in dialogue. Their lives don't unfold in a series of scenes that form a narrative arc.

Alike Almost Almost Nothing Arc
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