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Are there differences between black actors' opportunities and white actors' opportunities? Yes, there are. It's been said.

Actor Been Between Black
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Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It's hard to keep awake with nothing to do.

Awake Gee Hard Keep
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Let me show you how it's done... Loser!

Done How Loser Me
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The airheads of Congress will keep their own plush healthcare plan - it's the rest of us guinea pigs who will be thrown to the wolves.

Congress Guinea Healthcare Keep
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Survival requires us to leave our prejudices at home. It's about doing whatever it takes - and ultimately those with the biggest heart will win.

About Biggest Doing Heart
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Christianity is not about religion. It's about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It's about finding joy and finding home.

About Being Christianity Faith
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It's unresolved conflict in my life that I have a lovely family and a risky job.
Conflict Family Job Life
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My faith isn't very churchy, it's a pretty personal, intimate thing and has been a huge source of strength in moments of life and death.

Been Death Faith Huge
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I think it's fun running with dogs. They're always so fit and fast.

Always Dogs Fast Fit
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Well, I think it's too early to call Fallujah a failure.

Well Think Too Early
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So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it's a better education overall.

So Want Kids Go
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It's our time to fight for the America we know we can have.
Time Fight America Have
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You have to show Israel that it's not going to be forced to do things it doesn't want to do and can't do.

You Have Show Isreal
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You can't live someone else's expectations in life. It's a recipe for disaster.

Disaster Else Expectations Life
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I'll take any story if it's good.

Any Good Story Take
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I have 100 percent Bronx pride, like it's a country, like I am the Bronx.

Bronx Country Like Percent
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I want to go to Sierra Leone with something - whether it's some sort of contribution to healthcare, or to the entertainment industry. My cousin is a nurse; we are talking about opening a clinic.

About Clinic Contribution Cousin
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You watch yourself age and it's hard to feel like a sex symbol.

Age Feel Hard Like
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I'm a pretty chill and easygoing person; most people in Australia are, as well. I don't think I ever really saw a lot of fights growing up. I think it's hard to get people in Australia angry and want to fight, minus one or two people in the media... but we won't say any names.

Angry Any Australia Chill
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A lot of people heard 'Murda Business' and thought it was about killing people, trying to be tough and hardcore. If you actually listen to the lyrics, it's kind of silly and playful.

About Actually Business Hardcore
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I'm a little bit damaged in about 15 different ways, and it's been nice that no particular damaged area has become a major issue. I'm a more than moderately healthy 65-year-old male who has gotten away with a lot of stuff.

About Area Away Become
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I think that music is still art, even if it's commercialised.
Art Even I Think Music
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If you give a good performance, something that gets some feeling across to people, that's such a rare gift. It's underestimated at this point in history, when the music biz is inevitably turning into a kind of politics.

Across Feeling Gets Gift
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My general take on American music since 1969 is that it's just getting stiffer and people are getting more uptight - audience, performance, and palace guard.

American American Music Audience General
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It's more fun to look at an old picture of me than it is to look at a new one sometimes. Although, I still wear a dress pretty well.

Although Dress Fun Look
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It's fair to say that I have a side that is prudent and a side that is not.

Fair Prudent Say Side
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Luxury lives in the finer details. It's a cloth napkin at a dinner table. It's a mint on your pillow before bed.

Bed Before Cloth Details
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As a child, I remember my dad would sometimes drive me into town with him to play pinball machines together. It's a bittersweet memory but also a favorite.

Also Bittersweet Child Dad
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One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind myself that people hear the show, that it has an audience, that it exists in the world. It's so easy to forget that.

Audience Easy Exists Forget
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It's easier to pick off a fast runner than to pick off a lazy runner.

Easier Fast Lazy Off
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I think stupid people are surprised that I'm Australian. It's a small-minded; we live in a global community, but I suppose some people still are small-minded.

Australian Community Global I Think
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My management team are all women. Most of the people at labels I liaise with are all women. It's pretty much all women all the time.

All Women Labels Management Management Team
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I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.

Always Wished For This
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I come from Detroit where it's rough and I'm not a smooth talker.

Come From Detroit Where
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It sometimes feels like a strange movie, you know, it's all so weird that sometimes I wonder if it is really happening.

Sometimes Feels Like Strange
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It's a great time of the year... if you can stand it.

Great GreatTime Stand Time
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I feel like in an interview situation, it's a kind of intimacy that I can understand and handle - versus in real life, when I'm much more of a bumbler and have a hard time.

Feel Handle Hard Hard Time
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I think the name of the show, 'This American Life' - we named it that just because it seemed like it made the thing feel big. But we don't think about whether it's an American story or not. We happen to be Americans. I think for the stories to work, they have to be universal.

About American American American Life
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It's rare for me to read any fiction. I almost only read nonfiction. I don't believe in guilty pleasures, I only believe in pleasures. People who call reading detective fiction or eating dessert a guilty pleasure make me want to puke.

Almost Any Believe Call
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It's a wonderful feeling to be a bridge to the past and to unite generations. The sport of baseball does that, and I am just a part of it.

Am Baseball Bridge Does
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I'm not a go-in-for-the-kill kind of interviewer. It's a great thing to me, that kind of interviewer, but I'm not it. It doesn't play to my strengths at all. I like to interview people who are interested in telling their story and tell it as truthfully as they can.

Great Great Thing Interested Interview
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The roar of the crowd has always been the sweetest music. It's intoxicating.
Always Been Crowd Intoxicating
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For me to do a story, something has to happen to someone. It's a story in the way you learn what a story is in third grade, where there is a person, and things happen to them, and then something big happens, and they realize something new.

Big Grade Happen Happens
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The radio is good for taking somebody else's experience and making you understand what it would be like. Because when you don't see someone, but you hear them talking - and, uh, that is what radio is all about - it's like when someone is talking from the heart. Everything about it conspires to take you into somebody else's world.

About Because Conspires Else
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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.

Auditorium Because Big Front
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The album requires a certain focus of mine that I can't really explain - let's just say it's all I can really do while I'm doing it.

Album Requires Certain Focus
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I try to treat all the money I'm making like it's the last time I'm going to make it.

Try Treat All Money
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It's a wonderful feeling being a bridge to the past and unite generations.

Being Bridge Feeling Generations
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I'm not a military general, a business guru, not a philosopher or author. It's only me.

Author Business General Guru
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I try to call the play as quickly as I possibly can and then shut up and let the crowd roar because, to me, the crowd is the most wonderful thing in the whole world when it's making noise.

Because Call Crowd Making
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