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None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.

Always Back Bass Fat
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I look up to people not necessarily based on what they look like. For example, Edith Piaf is somebody I think is a beauty hero even though she was definitely considered to not be beautiful. It was just her charisma and stage presence, and to me, that really defines beauty.

Based Beautiful Beauty Charisma
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I've always been a huge 'Divine' fan. He was so iconic and so ground-breaking, especially for the time that he was around, because he was not only breaking barriers in the regular world, just being openly gay, but in the drag world as well.

Always Around Barriers Because
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He was admired for never being at a loss for words and never wasting any either.

Admired Never being Loss Words
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My father never kissed me, hugged me or told me that he loved me. As my only living parent, he became the filter through which I saw myself, the possibilities for my life, the world and all men. He was a conflicted and dark filter.

Became Dark Father Filter
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My father had played the guitar when he was young, and my uncle Jack had worked for Kalamazoo, before the war, developing guitar pickups. So there was a kind of family thing about the guitar, although it was considered something of an anomaly then.

About Although Anomaly Before
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There was something in Nick, becoming the Broadway star that he was and working from the age of 7, being on Broadway for four years, and then doing the music.

Age Becoming Being Broadway
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And so we were asleep there in San Diego. And our pilot called us. And his brother was on one of the other planes. And when he was leaving the airport, he saw in his rear view mirror that there was an explosion.

Airport Asleep Brother Diego
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I was singing a lot of waltzes. And I was with Jerry Kennedy, my producer, and he was playing me some songs, and he said, hey, I want to play you this song that I'm going to get Jackie Ward to record.

Get Going He Hey
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I met Quincy Jones in Seattle. We were kids together... liked each other when we met and have been close ever since. He wasn't writing when we met - in fact, I more or less started him off to write; voicing, harmony, and stuff like that.

Been Close Each Ever
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I never thought of acting as a creative process. Christ, I used to go to the movies and see Brando talking like he was trying to sell shoes, and he was great. I thought anybody could do it. Then I tried it, and I got so uptight, I'm limited as to what I can do on film.

Acting Anybody Brando Christ
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I thought he was the greatest thing. Bob Dylan.

Bob Bob Dylan Dylan Greatest
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When I was stationed in Germany, Johnny Cash was already a legend over there because he'd done some shows, then gone off to some bar straight afterwards and played just for the troops. So he was a real hero.

Afterwards Bar Because Cash
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I want to have children, but my friends scare me. One of my friends told me she was in labor for 36 hours. I don't even want to do anything that feels good for 36 hours.

Anything Children Even Feels
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When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn't writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around.

Around Get He Lie
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I was totally dominated and revered my father. I admired everything he did. He was a great sports person. He loved me. I was his only boy at that time, before my brother Billy came along.

Admired Along Before Billy
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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
Another Another Time Born Child
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Now at the end of a long avenue, but when he turned to, look for his followers not one was to be seen; the woods had closed instantly upon him as he had passed through. He was entirely alone, and utter

End Long avenue Followers Seen
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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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When I was a kid, it was Bette Davis. She was my idol. I used to cut school and sit in the back of the theater; of course, I would have snuck in because I couldn't afford a ticket.

Afford Back Because Bette
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I was advised to seize the opportunity and sing the tribute song for Mandela because I was inspired by his story, and he was not only loved in South Africa but in the whole world.

Advised Opportunity Sing Tribute
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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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Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.

Alone Even He Others
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I wrote the song For A Dancer for a friend of mine who died in a fire. He was in the sauna in a house that burned down, so he had no idea anything was going on. It was very sad.

Anything Burned Dancer Died
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As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson Mandela when he was a political prisoner in South Africa. We were celebrating his 70th birthday and calling for his release.

Africa Also As Far As Birthday
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I have a sense of destiny because of my mother, who was an extraordinary person but a terrible candidate for mother. She was like the god Cronus, who gave birth to his children in the morning and then ate them at night.

Ate Because Birth Candidate
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Michael Jackson has a very good heart. He was crying when he was giving me the award, 'cause his mind went back over the early days.

Award Back Cause Crying
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My mother was a housewife but she was also an artist. My father was an electrical engineer.

Also Artist Electrical Engineer
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If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.

After Between Bridge Dead
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Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.

America Because Christopher Columbus
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The hard part about writing about a guy like John Brown is that he was so serious, and his cause was so serious, that most of what's been written about him is really serious and, in my opinion, a little bit boring.

About Been Bit Boring
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James Brown was the Monday-to-Friday guy. He was the hardest man in show business. He was like your dad and your uncle: He showed up, and he hit hard.

Brown Business Dad Guy
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It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.

Before Happens She Sometimes
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I remember saying goodbye to my father the night he left to join the Navy. He didn't have to. He was older than other servicemen and had a family to support but he wanted to be a part of the fight against fascism, not just make movies about it. I admired this about him.

About Admired Against Family
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My grandmother was probably the first person who I thought was beautiful. She was incredibly stylish, she had big hair, big cars. I was probably 3 years old, but she was like a cartoon character.

My grandmother Beautiful Incredibly stylish
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He was simply not a “hero”, which is to say, he did not let his relationship with the man be determined by the woman.

Relationship Man Determined by The woman
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Mandela was a complex character,both the aristocrat, and royalty, and the peasant; the intellectual and the ordinary person; he was a combination of so many different characteristics, you cannot just put him into one box and say ‘this is him’.

Mandela Complex Aristocrat Royalty
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He was the owner of the moonlight on the ground, he fell in love with the most beautiful of the trees, he made wreaths of leaves and strung them around his neck.

Moonlight Fell In love Most beautiful
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I only like people to know what I want them to know. People didn't know what Tupac was doing. That's why he was so iconic.

Like people Know what Know People
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I wonder d reason some people use children as bait or competition, No,They are God's Heritage,treat them equal and it doesn't matter if they are ur biological ones or not, where a child is born or how he was raised is not 100% key of determination to what he becomes in life!

Use children Competition God's heritage Treat them
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Who discovered we could get milk from cows, and what did he THINK he was doing at the time?

Who discovered Get milk From cows Think
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I was saddened to learn of the death of His Excellency, Isiaka Abiola Ajimobi,..He was unfailingly hospitable, chivalrous and friendly. May his soul rest in peace. Amen.

Was saddened The death Unfailingly hospitable Chivalrous
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I'm mad about the waste that happens when people who love each other can't even bring themselves to talk.

The waste Happen People Who love
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He was in love, and people in that condition did stupid, unfathomable things. They were all flawed, every single one.

In love People That condition Did stupid
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It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

Doesn't matter My father I remember He was
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All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed. For after all, he was only human. He wasn't a dog.

His life Good person Many times He failed
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My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a 'race' life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.

My father Had died Very swiftly Of cancer
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Let me send these words of warning that it is time for the leadership of APC and President Buhari to show more interest in the economy of our country and concentrate because he was voted to govern and show more interest and commitment to the security of lives and property.

The leadership More interest The economy Our country
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She was in pain and I loved her, sort of loved her, I guess, so I kind of had to love her pain, too.

In pain Loved her Her pain
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She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.

Deny Existence Time Love
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