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I only knew classical music, which to me was the only true music. The only way I could survive at the bar was to mix the classical music with popular songs, and that meant I had to sing. What happened was that I discovered I had a voice plus the talent to mix classical music together with more popular songs, which at the time I detested.

Classical music Survive Song Voice
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I was not reluctant to become a singer. Singing has been an activity I've done my whole life, without thought.

Reluctant Singer Activity Life
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Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.

About Any Art Beyond
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I don't like to go to strange places. I was in Italy for about five hours on my way to Africa.
Strange Italy Five hour Africa
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Shakespeare is the true multicultural author. He exists in all languages. He is put on the stage everywhere. Everyone feels that they are represented by him on the stage.

Author Everyone Everywhere Exists
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I don't like to go to strange places.

Like Strange Places
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If longevity is the best index to measure a company, a basic requirement is the ability of the corporation to generate new and new leaders.

Ability Basic Best Company
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The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.
Advantage Great GreatAdvantage Home
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Since I was three I've been playing the piano. I've been onstage. My mother is an Evangelist and I used to play the piano at her revival meetings.

Three Playing Piano Onstage
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The world does not get to be a better or a worse place; it just gets more senescent.

Better Does Get Gets
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Today, the biggest bottleneck to the growth of a corporation is availability of good talent.

Availability Biggest Corporation Good
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The world gets older, without getting either better or worse and so does literature. But I do think that the drab current phenomenon that passes for literary studies in the university will finally provide its own corrective.

Better Current Does Either
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What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.

Any Call Exclude Mostly
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Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

Act Clear Desire Except
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All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is.
Ceases Critic Deadly Encouragement
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I don't like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need.

Angeles Awful Everybody Famous
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When people get rich, they cut themselves off from the context that has earned them these riches - the context of the common men. They forget they are part of society.

Common Context Cut Earned
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Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.

Belong Change Growth Nothing
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I guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents, and I think I forgot about that for a little while.

About Awhile Could Devoted
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A professorship appeals very much because I enjoy being with younger people.

Appeals Because Being Enjoy
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I think there are opportunities outside India as well as in India. In fact, some of the largest projects that most Indian software companies are doing are in India.

Companies Doing Fact I Think
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The biggest impediment to growth is in our minds and not in the world outside, and only constant in the world is change.

Biggest Change Constant Growth
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Investment in training is a huge necessity for knowledge-based corporations.
Corporations Huge Investment Necessity
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The FBI and our entire government has become a bureaucracy. Sick, tired, and old as far as technology is concerned. This has to change.

As Far As Become Bureaucracy Change
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The government generally is just too top-heavy.
Generally Government Just Too
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Corporations understand the value of security because the leakage of their competitive information could be the end of the corporation.

Because Competitive Corporation Corporations
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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Always Beauty Hunger Truth
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I think that the world has largely ignored Belize and the political situation and the plight of its people because it's one of the smallest countries and, in terms of the world economy, one of the least significant.

Because Countries Economy I Think
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The ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world are the ones who do.

Change Change The World Crazy Enough
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Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.

Alter Change How How Much
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We as Americans have ripped off the world. We get to throw food away. It's insane.

American Away Food Get
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Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.

Fear Bred Arms Geared
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Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.

Grave State Cry Fear
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Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

Age Body Quitting Soul
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A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.

Based Better Emerge Faith
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I hope our hopes and aspirations are bigger than setting records.

Records Hope Bigger Our
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It's my job to get us in good plays, or more importantly, out of bad plays. That's what I did.

Plays Bad More Good
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An angry people cannot create anything that is not imbued with anger.

Anger Angry Anything Cannot
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If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.

Bend Break Change Direct
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I'm a very modest person. But I'm also extremely confident. And if you put me in the situation or in the moment, I'm gonna have some swagger, I'm gonna have some cockiness.

Person Modest Confident Very
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The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
Biggest Books Critics Never
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The biggest place I look for validation is from my mother. That's the little girl in me that will never grow up.

Biggest Girl Grow Grow Up
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I was never confident about finishing a book, but friends encouraged me. When I finished my first book, it was accepted by a publisher right away and became an instant bestseller. One male critic called it the most shocking book he ever read.

About Accepted Away Became
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I really fall in love with my characters, even the bad ones. I love getting together with them. They tell me what to do; they take me on a wild and wonderful trip.

Bad Bad Ones Characters Even
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Each day, you get an ounce more confidence. When we're playing like we are, there's no reason not to.

Reason Playing Ounce Each
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I write about the American dream: if you set your mind to do something, you can do it. My fans know they're getting the real thing.

About American American Dream Dream
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I have written 20 books, and each one is like having a baby. Writing is not easy; some people want to write books but just can't put a story together. I can put together a story that interests both me and my readers.

Baby Books Both Each
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I managed to take a family trip to the Bahamas and it was quite lovely.

Bahamas Family Lovely Quite
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Authors change publishers because it's like being married for a long time and suddenly you want to go out and have a wild affair! No, not seriously, sometimes the deal is more interesting with a new publisher, and other times they have more enthusiasm for your books.

Affair Authors Because Being
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The use of violence in movies is a subject that's worth addressing. I'm not standing on a soapbox or wagging a finger, but I'm interested in those subjects for sure.

Addressing Finger Interested Movies
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