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In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe.

Clue Man Microcosm Sense
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People don't realize you're blowing over changes, time changes, harmony, different keys. I mark a point in my solo where it's got to peak at point D I go to A, B, C D then I'm home.

Blowing Changes Different Go
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It's the same old story. Nothing in this world happens unless white folks says it happens. And therein lies the problem of being a professional black storyteller - writer, musician, filmmaker.

Being Black Filmmaker Folks
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There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.

Cruelty Desperately Longer Monotonous
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Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.

Circumstances Example Impulse Life
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There's a TV element to everything in my eyes.

Element Everything Eyes TV
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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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Mine's a pretty simple strategy: there's not a lot of talent here, but there's a lot of hustle. I have to be in every place I can, and be busy.

Busy Every Here Hustle
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As much as we all talk about the future and how so many things are merging, there is a simplicity that is crucial.

About Crucial Future How
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There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.

Bends Breaks Kinds Two
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I'm very unstable; there's no stability in a musician's life at all. You live on a bus or on the road hand to mouth and you don't know where your money's coming from.

Bus Coming Hand Know
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It is the most delightful thing that ever happens to me, when I hear something coming out of my guitar and out of my mouth that wasn't there before.

Before Coming Delightful Ever
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There'll come a writing phase where you have to defend the time, unplug the phone and put in the hours to get it done.

Come Defend Done Get
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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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I tend to write out the first iteration of a lyric here and then go over here and make variations on it, on the page opposite.

First Go Here Lyric
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I know there are people who don't like their audience or like the experience of being recognized or celebrated, but my audience has been very good - they don't bother me and when they do contact me it's usually on the nicest possible terms.

Audience Been Being Bother
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In our music, in our everyday life, there are so many negative things. Why not have something positive and stamp it with blackness?

Blackness Everyday Everyday Life Life
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When I was growing up in Terrell, Texas, I felt that it was not where I was supposed to be. I knew that I was meant for a different destination. I think that the minute I was born, there was something inside telling me where I would go, it's like energy - an intangible destiny.

Born Destination Destiny Different
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Every two, three years there is a movie about the Holocaust because they want you to remember and they want you to be reminded of what it was. When was the last time you seen a movie about slavery?

About Because Every Holocaust
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So there is not a lot about me that you don't know other than that I play table tennis. I'm great, I'm great at table tennis! You will look at me and go, 'How does that dude know how to play that well?'

About Does Dude Go
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A lot of people may not know how competitive it is to play classical music, because when you think about it, the music that you're playing is music that's been here for years. And all you're trying to do is improve upon it when you play.

About Because Been Classical
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With 'Django Unchained,' when you're dealing with slavery, it's like a gymnastics routine with the highest amount of difficulty. Quentin Tarantino is not going to do a movie that's just going to lay there and be safe. There's going to be twists and flips.

Amount Dealing Difficulty Flips
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If you look at how long the Earth has been here, we're living in the blink of an eye. So, whatever it is you want to do, you go out and do it.

Been Blink Earth Eye
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When you look at Michael Jackson, there's nobody who loves him in that family, nobody. If they did, they'd tell him he didn't have to do all that in order to be famous. All he has to do is keep doing his music and be himself. Michael's been a little touched for about 20 years, but somebody needs to pull him aside and tell him they love him.

About Aside Been Did
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I'm bad on Valentine's Day, but even worse on Christmas. I go shopping at nine o'clock on December 24th every year. Nobody else is there. I'm in Toys'R'Us all by myself. I get there five minutes before closing.

Bad Before Christmas Closing
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But don't get caught out there looking goofy. It's weird. When you do something that stinks, it's going to last forever on the Internet. There's always someone in the audience with a camera phone and if you're not 100%, you're going to be watching yourself on YouTube.

Always Audience Camera Caught
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It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.

Believe Clergy Everywhere Found
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There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.

Certainly Deserve Fortune Large
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My entire life has been an attempt to get back to the kind of feelings you have on a field. The sense of brotherhood, the esprit de corps, the focus - there being no past or future, just the ball. As trite as it sounds, I was happiest playing ball.

Future Focus Attempt Sounds
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There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
Comfort Home Like Nothing
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Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

Correct General Opinion Where
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Fame does lead to money, which I don't have a close relationship with. I'm the kind of guy who never sees the money - it all goes somewhere else. I don't understand it, I don't like to deal with it. I have a fear of not having it, because I grew up without it.

Close Deal Fame Fear
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There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

Less More People Them
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There are certain things I learned when I first started learning about acting, to try and place the character physically and emotionally. And the way you place them emotionally is often with humor.

Humor Acting Often Certain
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There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
Charm Equal Heart Tenderness
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Ted needs someone to be there 100% of the time. He thinks that's love. It's not love - it's babysitting.

Babysitting He Love Needs
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If you're ever in a situation where you're not getting served or you can't get what you need, just cry.

Cry Ever Get Getting
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I don't think there's anything more important than making peace before it's too late. And it almost always falls to the child to try to move toward the parent.

Almost Always Anything Before
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If there is one Osama bin Laden now, there will be 100 bin Ladens afterwards.

There is One Will be Afterwards
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At one time there were voiceover artists, now there are celebrity voiceover artists. It's unfortunate because these people need the money less than the voiceover artist.

Artist Money Celebrity Time
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There's nothing wrong with acknowledging the panoply of life's rich experience.

Life Nothing Rich Wrong
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Without whining and without making myself a tragic figure, there is no replacement for the loss of your privacy. It's a huge sacrifice.

Figure Huge Loss Privacy
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If you're smart, you'll always be humble. You can learn all you want, but there'll always be somebody who's never read a book who'll know twice what you know.

Learn Never Read Smart
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I grew up with a deep belief that wherever our troops fought, they were on the side of the angels.
Angels Belief Deep Fought
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There's many different genres, and when you see R&B and pop and house, as well as electronic, come together, that's the reality of what music is.

Come Different Electronic Genres
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I'm a victim of my own insides. There was a time when I wanted to know everything. It used to make me very unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn't know what to do with it. But now I've learned to make that feeling work for me.

Everything Feeling Just Know
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All of a sudden, someone threw me in front of this rock and roll band. And I decided then and there that was it. I never wanted to do anything else.

Anything Anything Else Band Decided
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As a small child in England, I had this dream of going to Africa. We didn't have any money and I was a girl, so everyone except my mother laughed at it. When I left school, there was no money for me to go to university, so I went to secretarial college and got a job.

Africa Any Child College
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Passion will make you crazy, but is there any other way to live?

Passion You crazy Live
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If we worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true really is true, then there would be little hope for advance.

Worked on Assumption True Hope
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