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I'm a born entertainer. When I open the fridge door and the light goes on, I burst into song.

Born Burst Door Entertainer
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I'm trying to not follow fashion. I don't even like the word. But I do like clothes, and I like nicely cut clothes that last and that are built to be worn for the next 30 years.

Built Clothes Cut Even
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I'm constantly doing new stuff, and I want it to be received really well. Who knows what's ego, what's business, what's artistic. It all shifts on a day-to-day basis.

Artistic Basis Business Constantly
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I'm interested in the idea that we all start off as these lovely little babies with all this potential but that circumstances mean that we don't always live the life we should.

Always Babies Circumstances Idea
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Bette Davis is my hero. I'm obsessed with her. I base everything I do on her.
Base Bette Davis Everything
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I'm always very careful to say I'm Irish-Ethiopian because I feel Ethiopian and I look Ethiopian and I am Ethiopian. But there are 81 languages in Ethiopia, and I don't know any of them.

Always Am Any Because
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Violence in film and television is an ongoing conversation, and I like eavesdropping on it, but I'm never sure what my opinion is. I like watching creative violence, but I don't know.

Conversation Creative Eavesdropping Film
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I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

Written Much history Faith Wrong
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People ask me where I'm from. I say Ireland, and they are like 'Really? You don't look Irish.' Then you have to explain... people are intrigued, but sometimes you think, 'Why do I have to tell my whole story every time I open my mouth?

Ask Every Explain Intrigued
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I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge.

Bound Emerge Figures Little
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I'm all for philosophical debates about race, but if you look at history, you see that the status quo has power when it's unchallenged. So these conversations about inequality are crucial.

About Conversations Crucial Debates
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When I'm writing, I think about the garden, and when I'm in the garden I think about writing. I do a lot of writing by putting something in the ground.

About Garden Ground I Think
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I'm so used to being misunderstood.
Being Being Misunderstood Misunderstood Used
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I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abandoned.

Abandoned Alone Just Like
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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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People only say I'm angry because I'm black and I'm a woman. But all sorts of people write with strong feeling, the way I do.

Angry Because Black Feeling
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I have no credentials. I have no money. I literally come from a poor place. I was a servant. I dropped out of college. The next thing you know I'm writing for the 'New Yorker,' I have this sort of life, and it must seem annoying to people.

Annoying College Come Credentials
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I'll read anything. In fact, I'll read while I'm doing other things, which is not a good idea.

Anything Doing Fact Good
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I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.
Excellent Good Good Writer Very
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I'm just a guy up on a hill writing.
Guy Hill Just Up
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When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don't go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it.

Bring Church Does Find
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I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.

Complicated Going Joining Know
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I had to tell about my colonic, which expresses the fact why I'm so neat today as opposed to a few years ago. I never knew that the weight made that much difference.

About Difference Expresses Fact
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I'm kidding about having only a few dollars. I might have a few dollars more.
About Dollars Few Having
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Sometimes I feel like I'm a preacher as well, 'cause I can really get into an audience.

Audience Cause Feel Get
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I would say that I'm pretty mainstream.
Mainstream Pretty Say Would
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Believe me, the intellectual revolution is going on, and that has to come first before you see the political changes. That's where I'm very optimistic.

Before Believe Changes Come
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I'm kind of glad the web is sort of totally anarchic. That's fine with me.

Fine Glad Kind Me
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Well, you know what, I'm 60 years old, and I've been interested in politics since I was on my daddy's knee. During the 1948 election, we were praying for Truman. I know a lot about politics.

About Been Daddy Election
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I can always grow a little bit, and try to do something different. So I'm always looking for what's out there - the potential.

Always Bit Different Grow
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I'm dubious about having Social Security put into the stock market. I think that we have gotten very far away from the idea that there's something sacrosanct about retirement investments.

About Away Dubious Far
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I'm a biographer; I can live with a little hyperbole.

Hyperbole ICan Little Live
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I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.
Only person Distinction Depression
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I'm tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.

Being Citizen Like Second-Class
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I've tried not to get sucked into the Hollywood hierarchy system. Personally, I don't like it when people are deferential to me because I'm an established filmmaker. It's a blue-collar sensibility.

Because Blue-Collar Established Filmmaker
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I'm hopeful that we'll be able to study the ocean before we destroy it.
Able Before Destroy Hopeful
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People call me a perfectionist, but I'm not. I'm a rightist. I do something until it's right, and then I move on to the next thing.

Call Me Move Move On
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I'm a storyteller; that's what exploration really is all about. Going to places where others haven't been and returning to tell a story they haven't heard before.

About Been Before Exploration
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And I kind of said to myself if I get my voice back I'm not going to take back the old anxiety about it and just focus on the limitations. I'm really going to enjoy it.

About Anxiety Back Enjoy
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But there's nothing that gives me more thrill than when I'm writing and a couplet works. I find the right rhyme, or it's just perfect. There's nothing that exciting.

Exciting Find Gives Just
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The only thing I'm running for is the state line.

Line Only Running State
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I have people ask me if I'm going to convince my daughters to be Democrats, and I say, 'I have yet to convince my daughters to close a door.' I don't how in the world I would ever convince them to be in a political affiliation.

Affiliation Ask Close Convince
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I'm a 'just the facts, ma'am' kind of guy.

Facts Guy Just Kind
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If you want to believe that the government's coming for our guns or that being gay is a choice and a sin or that ObamaCare signals the end of civilization or that cutting taxes for rich people is the path to a better America, that's your choice. I'm never going to believe in any of that.

America Any Being Believe
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Being a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I'm done.

Actor Before Being Being A Man
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I'm a serious-minded and intense little devil, terribly gauche and so tense I don't see how people stay in the same room with me. I know I wouldn't tolerate myself.

Devil How Intense Know
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I used to fly around quite a bit, you know? I took a lot of unnecessary chances on the highways. And I started racing, and now I drive on the highways, I'm extra cautious because no one knows what they're doing half the time. You don't know what this guy is going to do or that one.

Around Because Bit Cautious
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I'm a comic, and I'm supposed to outrage and make people laugh, Part of makin' people laugh is to shake up their thinkin'. That's what I came here to do.

Came Comic Here Laugh
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I never could read science fiction. I was just uninterested in it. And you know, I don't like to read novels where the hero just goes beyond what I think could exist. And it doesn't interest me because I'm not learning anything about something I'll actually have to deal with.

About Actually Anything Because
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Once your kids get older and get out of the house, it's not like it stops. They're on the phone with me every day; I'm intimately involved in their problems.

Day Every EveryDay Get
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